Re: [Emc-developers] Encoder Diagnostics

2011-12-20 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:18:10PM +, andy pugh wrote: After finding that my spindle encoder had drifted, and was counting 686 of the 720 counts, leading to rather unconveninally-pitched threads, I find myself wondering if it would be sensible for the encoder function to set a pin to

Re: [Emc-developers] using MPG to change feed and spindle overrides

2012-01-05 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 11:59:36PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote: Definitely do not want it to jump to a position related to the current jog encoder position. This is why there's always an enable corresponding to inputs that take counts. You just need to hook it up (twiddle enables and scales

Re: [Emc-developers] Wiki page add-on

2012-01-18 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:19:26PM +0100, Spiderdab wrote: Hi, I added a png of my vismach realization into the vismach page here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Vismach I wish i did the right thing. BTW, I wrote LinuxCNC, and the result (as said) is 'LinuxCNC?'. do I have to

Re: [Emc-developers] gladevcp touchups for 2.5

2012-02-13 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 01:27:32PM +0100, Michael Haberler wrote: here are a few addenda for gladevcp: http://git.mah.priv.at/gitweb/emc2-dev.git/shortlog/refs/heads/gladevcp-touchups any objections? Not from me, if you and psha like it.

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: motion, tp: dont treat motion id zero special

2012-04-02 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:15:48PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: This broke the realtime build. limit.h is not available. http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/buildbot-admin/builders/hardy-i386-realtime-rip/builds/380/steps/compile/logs/stdio Non-admin link:

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: introduction of source contexts (aka: fixing 'line numbers')

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 02:13:50PM +0200, Michael Haberler wrote: I'd appreciate feedback on this. I think it sounds awesome. -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell

Re: [Emc-developers] Spindle for verifying spindle-synch motion [was Re: Compare of motion blending for master(T-Curve) and ja3(S-Curve)]

2012-04-29 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:20:12AM +0800, Yishin Li wrote: What kind of spindle is required for verifying above tests? The sim/lathe config has a working spindle encoder that you can tap with. I've used this extensively for testing. At one time I had a siggen sine wave summed with the

Re: [Emc-developers] Compare of motion blending for master(T-Curve) and ja3(S-Curve)

2012-04-29 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:12:03AM +0800, Yishin Li wrote: In my experience, the target positioning is the most complicate part of the whole S-Curve algorithm. Yes I can definitely see this. Is there a test script to altering feed_override while running program in auto_mode? I can't think

Re: [Emc-developers] 'queued MDI execution does not work in master'

2012-05-03 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 01:35:13PM +0200, Michael Haberler wrote: note I proposed handling proper queuing of MDI commands by modifying Axis to have a queue of MDI commands, and feed them to task one by one within the interpreter state constraints. I have said this before but maybe not

Re: [Emc-developers] CSMIO Eth motion controller + EMC2

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 04:45:02PM +0200, ??ukasz Prymula wrote: ... we have to send a set of trajectory points to CSMIO. This buffer is set to collect a points for 500 ms now. Have you seen http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Emc2HardwareDesign

Re: [Emc-developers] Some gentle chiding about the cd we use tto install 10.04-4 LTS from.

2012-07-20 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 06:22:41PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2012 18:14:28 Moses McKnight did opine: As far as I know you have to install that yourself because it does not come on the Ubuntu liveCD, which the LinuxCNC liveCD is based on. If you install Kubuntu it

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: License Compatibility Wiki Page

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:58:10AM +0200, Michael Haberler wrote: To cut the waste of time and effort, I've started a Wiki page on license compatibility. I think we should NOT do this. These kinds of lists are available already and our own, written by non-experts, is sure to be less

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: License Compatibility Wiki Page

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:57:55AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: I think this is only an issue for distributions of the software. So, if LinuxCNC wants to include a particular package on the iso CD image, then it has to meet certain requirements. This is totally wrong. You are talking about

Re: [Emc-developers] similar but different

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:08:47PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: I would guess this realistically involves move to xenomai, RTAI is not expected to work on amd64 any time soon. As a bonus we will get ARM option too. Unless something has gone wrong since 2007,

Re: [Emc-developers] similar but different

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:26:19PM -0400, jeremy youngs wrote: chris I am presuming then that this needs to be compiled from source on a 10.04 64 bit base os? Yes you would need to build your patched kernel, rtai, and linuxcnc all as 64 bit.

Re: [Emc-developers] Hidden dependencies.

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:30:20PM +0200, tuxcnc wrote: Error messages do not say anything or even are misleading. Even if you do not understand the error messages or you think they are misleading, it's important for you to include them verbatim in any request for assistance.

Re: [Emc-developers] I want to contribute a patch

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 04:29:34PM -0300, Victor Rocco wrote: I want to contribute a patch, i never did that so i dont know how to do that correctly. It is a fix in modbus tcp protocol, a single line fix. The patch is in the attached file. My english is not good so feel free to correct it.

Re: [Emc-developers] g43 after tool-table touch-off?

2012-10-04 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:45:04AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I was suggesting making the GUI issue a new G43 when the user does a tool-table touch-off via the GUI (ie when the GUI runs G10 L1/L10/L11 because of an explicit user action). AXIS has always done a new G43 after tool table

Re: [Emc-developers] g43 after tool-table touch-off?

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:34:26AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I just tested this on a fresh sim install of 2.5.1 and it worked correctly - touching off to the tool table updated the DRO immediately. I wonder what I broke on my mill at home?. Did you ever figure out what was happening?

Re: [Emc-developers] Forums

2012-10-25 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 09:29:27AM -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: Is there any relationship between the attacks on the forums and the fact that three of my last five messages to this list have been rejected Almost certainly not. They are totally unrelated services at unrelated providers. I

Re: [Emc-developers] can't apply crc on G2/3 move where cutter radius is = 1/2 hole radius

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:42:51AM -0600, Daniel Rogge wrote: Chris, Thank you for the detailed response. Welcome. I'm surprised that LCNC will allow crc to be turned on during a G2/G3 entry move. Only G1/G0 are allowed as entry moves on Fanuc-type controls. Yes we've had that feature

Re: [Emc-developers] proposed patch for v2.5_branch: correct ferror calculation

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 08:13:05AM +0100, Michael Haberler wrote: This patch makes the behavior of motion configurable by the new motion.ferror-mode pin. I recall there was some debate over whether this change was right or wrong, so I am glad to see it as an option if it makes the behavior

Re: [Emc-developers] Error when jogging axes in teleop mode

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 02:58:46PM +, Lisandro Massera wrote: I finally got it right. Newbie mistake. Forgot to sudo make install when rebuilding my version of the code. But my proposed fix was correct. I attach the git diff file. I would appreciate if someone would check it before

Re: [Emc-developers] proposed patch for v2.5_branch: correct ferror calculation

2013-01-12 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 08:13:05AM +0100, Michael Haberler wrote: motion has an issue with ferror calculation: I've studied this some more and disagree with the change, and I have a different, much simpler change that I propose instead. I've pushed this to pid-ferror-fix-try2 Currently,

Re: [Emc-developers] proposed patch for v2.5_branch: correct ferror calculation

2013-01-12 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 08:00:49PM +, andy pugh wrote: Doesn't this mean that there is no PID output for the first servo period after a setpoint change? Hmm yeah, it does seem like it will add a period's delay. Does pid need to keep track of both kinds of error? Report to motion its

Re: [Emc-developers] New PCI based system for LinuxCNC

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 06:12:22PM +0100, Bence Kov??cs wrote: We made sample configurations for GM6-PCI card, I attach it. Hi Bence, Your attachment didn't make it through. Please use git format-patch and attach the result. If you can't get the attachment to the list, put it on the web

Re: [Emc-developers] Unifying error message reporting in LinuxCNC

2013-02-26 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 05:09:42PM +0100, Michael Haberler wrote: all messages should wind up in syslog anyway I don't agree with this. We have an odd application that is pretty much like other user applications, but is partly implemented in the kernel for technical reasons. If not for this

Re: [Emc-developers] Unifying error message reporting in LinuxCNC

2013-02-26 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:02:44PM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I agree that the bulk of our users don't know and don't care where the log files are, and that many of our messages need to pop up in the GUI. Whatever changes, if any, can't break GUI message popups. Ideally they would

[Emc-developers] Feasibility of license change to GPLv2+

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 08:25:55PM +0100, Michael Haberler wrote: The hal and rtapi commits need study but I feel confident with de-Cornerizing those The task, motion and interpreter commits need Do you have reason to believe that PC is the only contributor who is problematic: either unwilling

Re: [Emc-developers] Feasibility of license change to GPLv2+

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 06:09:49PM -0500, Eric Keller wrote: wouldn't de-Cornerizing have to happen regardless? He did contribute quite a bit before the schism. That's a good question. If one assumes this is the only or one of very few obstacles to relicensing, maybe it's not premature. If

Re: [Emc-developers] Feasibility of license change to GPLv2+

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 07:20:20PM -0500, Matt Shaver wrote: I'll go out on a limb here and say that only Paul is likely to be unwilling. I base this belief on my impression of the many people I have met over the years in connection with this project. Now, un-contactable is something quite

Re: [Emc-developers] Feasibility of license change to GPLv2+

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 07:20:20PM -0500, Matt Shaver wrote: I'm wondering if we can even come up with a complete list of contributors. Looking through emcmot, there's sort of a list of contributors from the pre-emc1-cvs import era. Their contributions were clearly PD at the time they were

Re: [Emc-developers] Feasibility of license change to GPLv2+

2013-03-09 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 06:23:04PM -0500, Matt Shaver wrote: At some point, Fred added the GPLv2 and other rights phrase to some or all of the files (I'll go back and research this fully). He told me (on the phone I guess, I can't find an e-mail) that other rights meant also it's Public

Re: [Emc-developers] License Compatibility Question

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:21:14PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: However, the email from the ZMQ folks is to me, very poor ground to stand on Gene, their site where the source is distributed has this: http://www.zeromq.org/area:licensing If that is not enough, download the source from there

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC week at MPM/SFI

2013-04-03 Thread Chris Radek
I'll be there! I've stayed at Western Holiday and it was adequate and very cheap. They have beds and showers and not much else. More recently I stayed at the Candlewood and it was much nicer and somewhat more expensive. I'd recommend Candlewood unless you're on a very tight budget.

Re: [Emc-developers] Hitatchi WJ200 Inverter Driver (using comp)

2013-05-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 06:46:21PM -0400, Curtis Dutton wrote: The architecture of the future logging systems sounds nice. Are there any pointers on how to integrate my .comp file into the Makefile system? Even examples elsewhere in the source tree would be useful. To build and package a

[Emc-developers] Board direction: What should the bylaws be?

2013-05-17 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 08:50:36AM +0200, Michael Haberler wrote: If anybody wonders about the above: I am super-pissed about the utterly unprofessional behavior of the past board on the issue. Last time you shared your thoughts about the board, I spelled out my own thoughts about what the

[Emc-developers] Slaved joints and homing

2013-05-24 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 05:18:28PM +0100, andy pugh wrote: To maintain this separately, it'd be great if you want to make a new branch off v2.5_branch with this change. Buildbot will even build and package it for you (seb pointed me to Sorting of... on

Re: [Emc-developers] axis.N.home-state

2013-05-24 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:36:11AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: Great, this has come up several times in the past, and I really didn't have a way to test anything short of building a mockup. I could bring a few extra pieces of hardware too, if that helps. My mockup is nice, and is good and

Re: [Emc-developers] Tests

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:36:42AM +0100, andy pugh wrote: The test just sets up one of each type of mux (16 variants), sets the inputs, does a show pin, sets the selector bit, and show pin again. For this simple test, you could use list pin instead.

Re: [Emc-developers] Tests

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:12:21AM -0500, Chris Radek wrote: For this simple test, you could use list pin instead. Oh I misunderstood and thought you were testing pin creation. This is stupid advice. Are you sure owner changes? I'm always seeing 6 on my sim build for the first thing loadrt

Re: [Emc-developers] configs/sim/sim.tbl (master)

2013-06-04 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 11:09:00PM +, Dewey Garrett wrote: I wonder if the change above was intended to be so pervasive? Thanks, fixed, I agree with your analysis. -- How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT

Re: [Emc-developers] Vote Seb for 2.6 Release Manager!

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:44:15PM -0500, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: It feels like it's getting to be about time for LinuxCNC 2.6, and I volunteer to be your Release Manager. Yay! -- This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [Emc-developers] git.linuxcnc.org vs github vs. agile development

2013-07-02 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:20:41PM -0400, Ian McMahon wrote: One, and this may be pretty minor, but when you use github and friends, it has a nice big this is the git url to clone at the top of the page. Gitweb doesn't, and it's not immediately obvious how to translate what's in gitweb to a

Re: [Emc-developers] Open Development

2013-07-06 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 04:24:07PM +0200, Michael Haberler wrote: I do support the idea of the araisrobo tp code be brought into linuxCNC Have you found that it works properly now? Unless I have missed something, last we heard of this it was not yet working properly.

Re: [Emc-developers] Vote Seb for 2.6 Release Manager!

2013-07-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 10:34:47PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: I have just committed the 2nd piece of the updates I was making to the hal_ppmc driver to add driver support for two features I added to the PPMC encoder board. I committed these to the v2.5_branch, Jon, Was this everything that you

[Emc-developers] July's IRC meeting

2013-07-22 Thread Chris Radek
The July meeting will be at 1600UTC on 2013-07-27 The agenda is here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Meeting201307 General information about the meetings is here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MeetingsOnIRC I'm going to freeze the agenda on Wednesday so we don't have

Re: [Emc-developers] how to install the linuxcnc to controll my machine?

2013-08-01 Thread Chris Radek
Hi James, I see that you posted this to both the emc-users and emc-developers lists. In the future would you please only post to the list that's the most appropriate please? In this case, for these kinds of questions, that would be emc-users and I ask that everyone respond there. Thanks, Chris

Re: [Emc-developers] Lathe canned-cycles.

2013-08-06 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:02:18PM +0100, andy pugh wrote: Peck-drilling and friends are useful cycles on a lathe. However, they are only valid in the G17 plane, and lathes tend to run in G18 so that G2 and G3 work. This is incorrect. They are invalid in the G18 plane iff you don't have a Y

Re: [Emc-developers] Lathe canned-cycles.

2013-08-06 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:24:56PM +0100, andy pugh wrote: I had never considered peck-parting. I think I withdraw the question. While I really think this is something that's best fixed in the gcode (or cam post), I can see another defensible position: If on a machine without a Y axis, and a

[Emc-developers] My understanding of the state of JA3

2013-08-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:20:35PM +0100, andy pugh wrote: The specific case I am talking about is where a jog is altering the approach angle of the tool to the work (A and B axes) while not altering the tool-tip position in XYZ space. To do this requires movement of the X, Y and Z Joints,

Re: [Emc-developers] My understanding of the state of JA3

2013-08-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 03:52:26PM +0100, andy pugh wrote: On 16 August 2013 15:35, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: This means: just like you have to set AXIS LIMITS to be inside JOINT LIMITS, you must also set up your configuration so obeying AXIS CONSTRAINTS keeps you within your

Re: [Emc-developers] Heater control

2013-08-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 09:22:09AM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I _think_ this is spindle hold in conventional LinuxCNC usage, motion.spindle-at-speed where you don't want to start moving until the spindle is up to cutting speed. Don't want to start *cutting*. You do want to be

Re: [Emc-developers] [DISCUSS] Proposal: Drop Hardy support

2013-08-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:31:54AM -0500, John Morris wrote: Hi list, Continuing to support Ubuntu 8.04 is foolhardy, and I propose we stop. I'd support the idea of dropping hardy builds for 2.6 and master. - Hardy desktop support ended May 2011; server support ended May 2013. Support for

Re: [Emc-developers] q on motion rationale: why are cubic interpolatorsdisabled?

2013-08-20 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:32:36AM -0400, Steve Stallings wrote: Originally it was thought that the computers of the time did not have the horsepower to run the trajectory planner fast enough, so interpolators were used to achieve a faster update rate. This was especially true for

[Emc-developers] August's IRC meeting

2013-08-20 Thread Chris Radek
The August meeting will be at 1600UTC on 2013-08-24 The agenda is here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Meeting201308 General information about the meetings is here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MeetingsOnIRC Like last time, I'm going to freeze the agenda on Wednesday so we

Re: [Emc-developers] status?

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 07:11:47PM -0600, EBo wrote: What is the version of standard sable releases? From looking on gitweb and the web site, it looks like 2.5.3, but I see people here talking about 2.5.7 and 2.6.0... You are right, it's 2.5.3. Those others don't exist. You can see the

Re: [Emc-developers] Change in feed override during machine run causes 1 milisecond stalls

2006-12-24 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 05:17:36PM +0100, Mario. wrote: It is almost instant with the slower CPU configuration, you jut move the slider 5% up or down and he message pops. I suspect your video. If you are using onboard video, plug in a card. If you are using the nvidia or ati binary drivers,

Re: [Emc-developers] Change in feed override during machineruncauses 1 milisecond stalls

2006-12-26 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 10:27:40AM +0100, Mario. wrote: So, what the problem was: 1) I made a new computer and a fresh install Ubuntu 6.06LTS, +EMC2.0.5, +axis 2) The Geforce 6100 VGA was installed as vesa in xorg.conf 3) When I changed the VGA to GeForce 7300 GT, all problems/features

Re: [Emc-developers] Proposal For Named Parameters

2006-12-28 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 03:02:26PM -0500, Kenneth Lerman wrote: But... I think cradek will point out that axis already can use python programs to produce g-code output. or any other language using the AXIS filter feature.

Re: [Emc-developers] Can Someone Build This PyVCP Widget?

2007-02-10 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:11:27PM -0500, Kenneth Lerman wrote: 1 -- Am I wrong? Is the functionality (generating a traceback) that I want to implement not necessary, or not important? Am I wasting my time worrying about it? IMO, yes. I would be happy with the current error messages, if

Re: [Emc-developers] Do Compiling EMC takes hours to complete

2007-04-06 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:27:31AM -0700, Contech.Info wrote: I was compiling EMC on Ubuntu 6.06. ./configure command took 5 to 10 minutes. But when I entered Make command to compile the EMC it took more than eight hours, and compiling process was still going on. I am confused whether it

Re: [Emc-developers] Help to fix a minor bug in circular trajectory planner

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:49:26PM +0800, Xuecheng Xi wrote: Dear Developers, mostly to Cradek: The trajectory command for a circle is not really a circle. The higher feedrate, the bigger the radial contour errors are. When I run the G-code (feedrate=100mm/s, radius=40mm) G2 x40 y0 i-40

Re: [Emc-developers] following error quirk and PID

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:06:46PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: So, I set both FERROR and MIN_FERROR to 0.01 (mm) and found that I would get the following error trip about 150 ms after motion started. The jerk at the start of the linear acceleration ramp caused the worst error of about

Re: [Emc-developers] Strange timing in RTAI

2007-12-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:09:39PM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Sometimes the delay between successive I/O operations is on the order of 200-300 microseconds! Have you verified that this is actually happening, using something other than these timestamps in dmesg? I don't know how far

Re: [Emc-developers] 5 axis kinematics

2007-12-20 Thread Chris Radek
Tonight I got the fifth axis working on my desktop mill. The kinematics work as planned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WCrqqoZkPg - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual

Re: [Emc-developers] developer CVS access on a different computer

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:41:33AM +, Chris Morley wrote: Hello. I would like to use a different computer for development now. Do I need just need to make and send a new public key on the new computer to get developer access ? Can I still use my old username? Thanks Chris Morley

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] Still Crashing

2008-05-27 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:06:04PM +0100, paul_c wrote: Anyways, I now have a box set up in the lab, negotiated access to the outside world, and can at least pull stuff from cvs.linuxcnc.org... Why the *** pserver can't be used for anon access, I don't suppose we will get an answer. But,

Re: [Emc-developers] quirks using EMC

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:56:28AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: Any suggestions would be welcome. Deja vu! You must run this gcode once every two years! http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.user/2451/focus=2597

Re: [Emc-developers] quirks using EMC

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:22:48PM -0500, Chris Radek wrote: Deja vu! You must run this gcode once every two years! Err 2008 - 2007 = ?? Every summer then. I hope that old link helps. - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] [ emc-Feature Requests-2108375 ] 5 axis rigid tapping

2008-09-14 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:15:10AM -0500, Chris Radek wrote: I already did canned cycles. What I did was make new planes G17.1, G18.1, G19.1 for planes UV, VW, WU. Then you can do a canned cycle like G17.1 G81 W-1 R.1 F3 to drill in the direction the tool is pointed. I think expanding

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle brake

2008-10-29 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:09:23PM +, Chris Morley wrote: if some one programs m3 then m4 does EMC put the brake on for a certain amount of time, error, or just change directions of the spindle. Just changes direction. This is also how rigid tapping works. On a related question when

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle brake

2008-10-29 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:55:22PM +, Chris Morley wrote: IMHO -CSS should always wait for an up to speed signal before STARTING feed otherwise the surface feed might not be even close. Are you talking about constant surface speed or feed per rev? I am not entirely sure which thing you

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle brake

2008-10-30 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:28:16AM +, Chris Morley wrote: What I am saying is that while using CSS , before STARTING a feed line EMC should know that the spindle is up_to_speed . I suggest that a HAL bit pin (say spindle_up_to_speed) would suffice. Then an integrator could connect

Re: [Emc-developers] the buildbot machine is ready

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:09:43PM -0500, John Kasunich wrote: I'm not sure if sim-only system need to run the make setuid step or not. Nope. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's

Re: [Emc-developers] Quirk when building from CVS trunk with documentation

2008-11-15 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:26:26AM -0600, Jon Elson wrote: My guess is these are both in the same package, anyway. Thanks, but I was just working from the top part of the docs, and they don't say anything about these packages, and the apt-get build-dep, etc. don't know to install them.

Re: [Emc-developers] Controlling EMC from a non-GPL application

2008-11-20 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:22:05PM +, paul_c wrote: RCSlib is public domain, as is EMC[1]. You will find the relevant data structures have had additions made, but I see no reason why you couldn't pad out the originals in order to realign the required fields. This is true. How much

Re: [Emc-developers] Controlling EMC from a non-GPL application

2008-11-20 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:40:08AM +, Chris Morley wrote: I find it interesting and important that everyone know the overal ideology. This is a tough question because there is no overall ideology. There may or may not be a prevalent ideology. The EMC project is at least on its second

Re: [Emc-developers] Controlling EMC from a non-GPL application

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:38:00PM +, paul_c wrote: On Friday 21 November 2008, Chris Radek wrote: The fact remains that the licenses say what they say, and those are the rules we will live by. Yet you can't/won't say which licenses apply to what code or even what licenses

Re: [Emc-developers] Controlling EMC from a non-GPL application

2008-11-27 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:43:00AM +, paul_c wrote: On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Jeff Epler wrote: why bundle stuff like yapps as part of the emc2 tarball. Red herring. NO. It falls under the heading of what should or should not be included (or even code review). For example, why

Re: [Emc-developers] proposed patch for halui direct control of MV, FO, SO

2008-12-19 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:09:59PM +0100, Micha?? Geszkiewicz wrote: Problem is that all my lasers are controlled by feed-override, motion.adaptive-feed would give you proper realtime control. --

Re: [Emc-developers] Homing changes in trunk

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:58:48PM -0500, Eric H. Johnson wrote: I know the timing is very tight, because just upping the debounce duration applied to the home input by a small amount resulted in running into the hard stop. That is back to the value used under 2.2.8 as well. I see debounce

Re: [Emc-developers] pyvcp example in stepconf removed

2009-02-03 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:25:57AM -0600, Chris Radek wrote: to a mutually-agreed-upon solution on the list yesterday. I meant irc channel, not list. -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser

Re: [Emc-developers] Inkscape, biarcs, and G-code!

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:42:36PM -0700, EBo wrote: Alex Joni alex.j...@robcon.ro said: It hasn't. But I managed to find it online in a form of a patch: http://www.pastebin.ca/640476 Thanks! BTW, where did you find it online? OK. I'll see about hacking it in. Tonight I did the

[Emc-developers] halvcp

2009-02-10 Thread Chris Radek
Tonight I found a problem with halvcp exiting improperly. It was calling hal_exit() twice, segfaulting on the second one. There are two paths of exiting: g_atexit(), signal(). When I exit AXIS, the emc script (?) tries to kill it, and both of these paths get executed. But, that's all beside

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC2-stable crashes system (reproducible)

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:42:25PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: Yes this is related to miscompilation. Doing export CC=gcc-3.4 before ./configure resolves the issue. It does not crash anymore. Yay Does emc use stuff like inline assembly or other special stuff inside of the kernel? just

Re: [Emc-developers] Interpreter/axis question

2009-03-03 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:30:01PM -0500, Mark wrote: Thanks. For right now, I'll stick with the SAI output, since I'm already using it. I tried to find the functions (ARC_FEED etc) before, but whatever string I searched for only showed up in emccannon.cc - which doesn't have the printf's.

Re: [Emc-developers] HAL decoder function ?

2009-03-28 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:39:07PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: Hi, all, I'm trying to put together a jog pendant to show at NAMES. To save digital I/O points I want to multiplex the axis selection, then I can select 3 axes with 2 points. But, I need to do a demultiplexer, like the reverse

Re: [Emc-developers] pncconf

2009-03-29 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 08:17:07PM +, Chris Morley wrote: Point aNd Click (just a working name) The first goal is to be able to configure a servo controlled mill/lathe using a parport and/or mesa 5i20 with hostmot4. I meant to develop it more in a branch before offering it to Trunk.

Re: [Emc-developers] having problem with G33.1 rigid tapping cycle

2009-04-05 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:19:21PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: is there a way to reduce the rate at which the spindle reverses? You could use a limit2 component between motion.spindle-speed-out and the DAC. limit2's maxv setting would limit the spindle acceleration.

Re: [Emc-developers] Programatically sending a sequence of motion commands

2009-04-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:17:39PM -0400, Eric H. Johnson wrote: Hi all, My first question is whether effectively doing MDI calls is the best way to do primarily the motion commands. And the second is, do I have to setup something like a state machine to wait for each of the commands to

Re: [Emc-developers] NURBS again...

2009-04-19 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 07:21:23PM -0600, EBo wrote: It was mentioned some time back that there might be a chance to get the NURBS patch merged into EMC's source once 2.3 was released. Is that OK now? I did it a few weeks ago. Do you have any documentation about exactly how the G codes work?

Re: [Emc-developers] NURBS again...

2009-04-19 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 08:12:48PM -0600, EBo wrote: Do you have the paper (PDF) which discusses how it works? If not I will track it back down and email it to you. That would be great - no I haven't seen it yet. We should get the information to John T as well, so he can add to the gcode

Re: [Emc-developers] Exposing feed rate as a pin

2009-05-30 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 03:20:23PM -0700, ejohn...@camalytics.com wrote: Alex, I know how to get the tool tip velocity, I am already doing that. It is the current feed rate, either with or without the feed override applied, that I need. Do you mean the requested feed, meaning

Re: [Emc-developers] Transition to the git revision control system

2009-06-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:15:39PM -0400, maxime lemonnier wrote: The more I read on git, the less I think it is well suited for EMC. Baazar seems much cleaner. Sourceforge can host bzr (but, since EMC is packaged for ubuntu, why not switch to launchpad?) Sourceforge hosts git and bzr both.

Re: [Emc-developers] Transition to the git revision control system

2009-06-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:01:35PM -0500, Chris Radek wrote: These are all the people who have ever checked in any code to EMC. Oops, I think this is not true. These are people who have committed to EMC2. I assumed it was ever because of Fred P's name being

Re: [Emc-developers] Pncconf alpha (?) critique request

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:14:08AM +, Chris Morley wrote: What I am looking for : a different perspective then mine. important things I should add or delete, basic flow to the pages eg. does the page order make sense or what info is on what page could something be made more

Re: [Emc-developers] video driver / opengl issues after update to 8.04

2009-07-05 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:50:17AM +, Chris Morley wrote: Hi guys When i updated from 6.06 to 8.04 the backplot display in AXIS does not display properly. It renders horizontal lines all over the screen. the horizontal line are actually the backplot . gxlgears loads and does

Re: [Emc-developers] formated patch for TkEMC.tcl

2009-07-10 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 08:41:54AM -0700, Alfred Smart wrote: Here is the formated patch I would like you to consider commiting to make TkEMC display the next line to be executed. Its my first patch I hope all is well. Thanks, I applied your patch to master and also the 2.3 stable branch.

Re: [Emc-developers] inconsistant naming separator with hostmot2 pins/params

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:04:51PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Some HAL object names use _ (eg opto_ac5) and some use - (eg sim-encoder). Which is prefered? Is there a best practices on this? http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal_general_ref.html#sec:GR-Naming-Conventions

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