Re: [Emc-developers] MPG Jogging Off of a Limit

2016-05-24 Thread Thomas Powderly
manual pulse generator manuel puls geber ( i think the acronym was originally German ) an encoder used to jog a handwheel/handrad tomp On 05/24/16 21:24, andy pugh wrote: > On 24 May 2016 at 13:55, johnson wrote: >> We use ignore limits and we can jog off. > With an

Re: [Emc-developers] MPG Jogging Off of a Limit

2016-05-24 Thread Thomas Powderly
Sam my old c-frame machines were all wired with an i/o box at rear of column this box had 2 rows of terminal strips top was in from control bottom was out to control terminal 1 of top jumpered to terminal 1 of bottom allowed override of the whole estop chain on machine side ( temperature, oil

Re: [Emc-developers] new parallel port problem

2016-04-09 Thread Thomas Powderly
really? and these 10$ probes have that special pin that Tek scopes need to make the speed correct? whats the part number? my 2 tek scopes can use new probes tomp On 04/09/16 15:58, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 09 April 2016 00:14:37 Jon Elson wrote: > >> On 04/08/2016 09:53 PM, Jon Elson

[Emc-developers] OT Re: Properly dealing with spindle faults

2016-03-29 Thread Thomas Powderly
magic twanger? "Hiya kids HiyaHiyaHiya" so who else remembers Froggy and Jingles? (dating myself ;-) tomp On 03/29/16 23:25, Gene Heskett wrote: ... > The machine takes care of the z axis. I thought I had found the magic > twanger when I'd bought a metric set of small stuff from Dewalt that >

[Emc-developers] OT Re: GSOC 2016-Contributing to LINUX CNC

2016-03-27 Thread Thomas Powderly
andy i love the pandemonium attachment even if it IS in metric tomp -- Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more.

Re: [Emc-developers] interrupt, retract, return, continue

2012-04-24 Thread Thomas Powderly
Michael Haberler, re: the interrupt,retract, recover, continue Hello, extremely interesting can i try the code? or could you try retreating from a circle to the apex of a cone? ( that is equivalent to the 'safe position' in sink edm orbits ) ( or, apex of a pyramid while walking round the

Re: [Emc-developers] manuals

2012-04-07 Thread Thomas Powderly
Gentlemen, Stuart's recollection is also mine to the extent that M02 was 'all done' and M30 was 'i'm hungry, feed me' and we wired lights and audio alarms accordingly. tomp -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second.

Re: [Emc-developers] Emc-developers Digest, Vol 70, Issue 18

2012-02-22 Thread Thomas Powderly
Anders, My cnc experience was primarily with WEDM ( i discount the larger time spent in sink edm as it's pretty much point and shoot not contouring ) but we were always constrained to a 'tangential contour' ,meaning each path element could not be blended. ( it could have geometry truncated by

Re: [Emc-developers] Soft Limit red lines are wrong.

2012-01-27 Thread Thomas Powderly
6dof robot sales brochures often have egg shaped 3d envelopes shown the egg is supposedly the space the end effector can achive ive never seen holes inside the eggs but suspect they exist ) anyway, i betcha there algs for this shape regards tomp

Re: [Emc-developers] Soft Limit red lines are wrong.

2012-01-27 Thread Thomas Powderly
of course pretty heavy math the keyword isrobot workspace http://www.intechopen.com/source/pdfs/24606/InTech-Accurate_numerical_methods_for_computing_2d_and_3d_robot_workspace.pdf http://husky.if.uidaho.edu/pubs/2011/HSI11_StanManSzepBal_PerfAnalDeltaRbt.pdf

Re: [Emc-developers] Soft Limit red lines are wrong.

2012-01-27 Thread Thomas Powderly
java app to visualize 3d workspace http://omega.uta.edu/~mvn6491/Robokine.html tom3p -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just

Re: [Emc-developers] Vismach - suggestions on needed feature

2012-01-15 Thread Thomas Powderly
maybe try using a cylinder for ropes ( or your line of cylinder primitive is only axial, not 3D , been a while since i hacked vismach.py ) and add function HalScale using glScale, which could change object length youd have to move the attaching point if the scaling was centric tomp

Re: [Emc-developers] Issue XY UV display in axis

2011-11-25 Thread Thomas Powderly
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Jeff Epler jep...@unpythonic.net wrote: I think it would be neat to have this feature, and I would be happy to review patches implementing it before their inclusion in emc2, but I don't have any specific ideas about how to implement this. The current

Re: [Emc-developers] External write of axis position.

2011-07-12 Thread Thomas Powderly
andy On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:09 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: There is a guy on the forum wanting to do wierd things with his config. In effect he wants to slave/unslave axes on the fly. One of the many stumbling blocks with this is that he really needs a way to force the

Re: [Emc-developers] External write of axis position.

2011-07-12 Thread Thomas Powderly
Andy and more importantly what insures the V axis stays where its so=upposed to be each time interval while not under emc motion control? regards tomp -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously

Re: [Emc-developers] External write of axis position.

2011-07-12 Thread Thomas Powderly
Andy this also changes position on the fly http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Hobbing look at position-cmd and position-fb look at how they are broken, reinvented and reconnected regards tomp -- AppSumo Presents

Re: [Emc-developers] tooltable layout question - pocket useless on nonrandom machines?

2011-04-11 Thread Thomas Powderly
Michael, On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: Norbert Schechner and myself are trying to support a machine with what basically is a rack toolchanger (HecklerKoch BA20, see pictures 23 here: http://innovac.de/kartei.php?code=3741) using procedure-based

Re: [Emc-developers] Emc 2.5 schedule

2011-03-10 Thread Thomas Powderly
Chris you're right about the irc logs try using http://psha.org.ru/irc/ its current (thanks psha! ) tomp -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization -

Re: [Emc-developers] GladeVCP status update (Gremlin inside)

2010-12-09 Thread Thomas Powderly
re: GladeVCP flexibility HAL widgets respect the hal data types ( the data is numeric ) GladeVCP has a large number of non Hal widgets, and these can have strings and lists because general toolkits know user dialogs are not always numeric you cant use strings in Hal, thats ok, (cant have

Re: [Emc-developers] Offsets.

2010-11-16 Thread Thomas Powderly
the pin offset could also do edm orbiting there is a point in the process where the tool is moved in a pattern to exaggerate its size since the pattern has a centre, its called an orbit ( tho it can be circular, square of hemispherical classicly ) i fiddled with injecting a sine cosine generator

Re: [Emc-developers] Emc-developers Digest, Vol 54, Issue 4

2010-10-12 Thread Thomas Powderly
re: gEDA2Hal Lars I wrote that gEDA page and got some of the gEDA to Hal to work Follow the notes on the page ask away I got busy ( got some work) and have not finished it but 'micges' used another way to get same result, he used 'eagle' pcb suite. There is a catch tho, 'eagle' is closed source