Re: [Emc-developers] jepler/rtos-uspace: a new POSIX realtime branch

2014-07-06 Thread sam sokolik
What is cool is I found the rt-preempt kernel from the synaptic package manager - installed it - built linuxcnc to use it. it just worked. (this was on wheezy) (I was testing the 7i80 ethernet device) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/ethlatestbuild.png sam On 07/06/2014 08:58

Re: [Emc-developers] Comp

2014-06-24 Thread sam sokolik
plus there is a hal component named comp... comp − Two input comparator with hysteresis sam On 6/24/2014 10:06 AM, Chris Radek wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 02:46:50PM +0100, andy pugh wrote: The program 'comp' can be found in the following packages mailutils-mh nmh in the obvious way.

Re: [Emc-developers] TP issue with exact stop and slow machine acceleration

2014-06-23 Thread sam sokolik
wow - The little bit of playing seems to fixed the bugs (g0 exact stop, skipping collinear segments).. Also - g61 and g61.1 are different. (exact path vs exact stop) very very cool. Nice work!! So - to explain further - G61 vs G61.1 from the manual.. The original planner ran G61 and g61.1

[Emc-developers] New trajectory planner in master - found a new bug.

2014-06-17 Thread sam sokolik
Actually - someone posted some gcode related to the discriminant error (which I cannot reproduce...) G61 G1 X -850 F6000 G0 X -325 ; bug appears here G1 X -275 F300 G0 X -52 G1 X -2 F300 M2 Now - it seems like the new TP combines all collinear segments into 1 regardless of the feed.. so -

Re: [Emc-developers] Error compiling latest master

2014-06-16 Thread sam sokolik
Try a 'make clean' first. sam On 06/16/2014 03:04 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: I just did a pull and got an error on compile cannot stat emc/kinematics/tc.h : no such file or directory Any suggestions please --

Re: [Emc-developers] Threading issue with new TP

2014-06-11 Thread sam sokolik
-arc-rc4 branch. It seems to work in simulation for a G33 move (position sync). -Rob On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:41 AM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Great! Running the current TP on the KT with its current acceleration settings was pretty 'tame' With the new TP - you could

Re: [Emc-developers] Threading issue with new TP

2014-06-09 Thread sam sokolik
the F-word). I'll poke around in the morning and see it I can fix it. -Rob On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 11:52 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Here is a cell phone picture of the new TP cutting jmk's fusee program. (this is how the problem was found...) after setting the F word

[Emc-developers] Threading issue with new TP

2014-06-08 Thread sam sokolik
Found a small bug with the new TP and threading... The threading move is capped by the current F word. (if you have the F word set to 6ipm - and the threading motion need to go faster - the feed is capped at 6ipm) Other than that... We ran the new TP on the KT this weekend.. It is quite

Re: [Emc-developers] Threading issue with new TP

2014-06-08 Thread sam sokolik
as it need to go faster for the pitch..) A good test though - I think there my need to be more to make sure nothing was missed... http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/IMG_20140608_174826_229.jpg sam On 06/08/2014 06:12 PM, sam sokolik wrote: Found a small bug with the new TP and threading

Re: [Emc-developers] bug with nurbs ?

2014-05-30 Thread sam sokolik
could you pastebin the program? running through the list really hacked up the gcode... sam On 05/30/2014 10:29 AM, bruno wrote: ;; ; #mill_number = 5 ( some init ) G21 (Unit in mm) G90 (Absolute distance mode) G64 P0.01 (Exact Path 0.001 tol.) G17 G40 (Cancel

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-18 Thread sam sokolik
I am using these settings ARC_BLEND_ENABLE = 1 ARC_BLEND_FALLBACK_ENABLE = 0 ARC_BLEND_OPTIMIZATION_DEPTH = 50 ARC_BLEND_GAP_CYCLES = 4 ARC_BLEND_RAMP_FREQ = 20 So - do you want the good news or the bad news? The good news is that tort.ngc runs though without any velocity violations.. The bad

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-18 Thread sam sokolik
= 2.01 tmax = 0.295682 helical_length = 9.750718 Don't know if that helps. sam On 04/18/2014 05:14 AM, sam sokolik wrote: I am using these settings ARC_BLEND_ENABLE = 1 ARC_BLEND_FALLBACK_ENABLE = 0 ARC_BLEND_OPTIMIZATION_DEPTH = 50 ARC_BLEND_GAP_CYCLES = 4 ARC_BLEND_RAMP_FREQ = 20 So

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-15 Thread sam sokolik
LHchips4.ngc at 0 deg. and 45 deg. with no violations (in simulation), so I'm hopeful that's the fix. -Rob On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:20 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.comwrote: the lone 'K[#scale*5.0]' should be on the previous line... sam On 04/14/2014 10:04 PM, sam sokolik wrote: ok

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-15 Thread sam sokolik
and yay! (no constraint violations) http://imagebin.org/305747 sam On 04/15/2014 05:30 AM, sam sokolik wrote: wow. Nice catch. sam? Yes? Does it happen if the program isn't rotated? Well I don't know.. Sorry - basic troubleshooting 101.. I figured my test was running it also

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-15 Thread sam sokolik
/2014 06:07 AM, sam sokolik wrote: and yay! (no constraint violations) http://imagebin.org/305747 sam On 04/15/2014 05:30 AM, sam sokolik wrote: wow. Nice catch. sam? Yes? Does it happen if the program isn't rotated? Well I don't know.. Sorry - basic troubleshooting 101.. I figured my

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-15 Thread sam sokolik
this is what I am using http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/tort.ngc it is the normal tort with the feedrates set very high. Yes - getting closer and closer! Don't feel rushed - school comes first :) (we have gotten by this long :) ) sam On 04/15/2014 08:16 AM, Robert Ellenberg

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-15 Thread sam sokolik
running master as of a week or so ago - doesn't seem to show the same issue (it does have the known acc constraint issue) http://imagebin.org/305773 sam On 4/15/2014 12:02 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: That's a possibility, I just did a quick diff of 2.5 and master and don't see any changes

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
30in/s^2 violation 78ipm peak Z it then is worse when the acc/vel are not equal. I have seen the z limit of 60ipm go as high as 121ipm (x and y 132ipm 20in/s^2, z 60ipm 15in/s^2) sam On 04/11/2014 08:27 AM, sam sokolik wrote: well - it seems to go a bit over when they are all equal also.. (vel

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
error. I added some additional calculations to get higher MA I'll velocities, and I think that was the source of this new issue, and possibly the RT hangups that Mark was seeing. I'll push a fix today as soon as I'm sure. Rob On Apr 14, 2014 9:58 AM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
Close!! sam On 04/14/2014 01:41 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: I just updated the circular-blend-arc-rc3 branch with a quick fix for the velocity constraint violation, so hopefully it should fix that little hiccup as well. -Rob On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:49 AM, sam sokolik sa

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
this is when it finished.. http://imagebin.org/305525 (z velocity is peaking at 74ipm - set for 60ipm) On 04/14/2014 02:09 PM, sam sokolik wrote: when I ran the config that had all the axis constraints the same (132ipm and 30in/s^2) it ran though just fine. When I ran the config

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
[#scale*75.659]Z[#scale*-18.189] G3Y[#scale*80.659]Z[#scale*-13.189] J[#scale*0.0] K[#scale*5.0] G0Z[#scale*5.0] g10l2p1r90 m30 again - so close thanks for all your hard work! sam On 04/14/2014 02:19 PM, sam sokolik wrote: this is when it finished.. http://imagebin.org/305525

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
the lone 'K[#scale*5.0]' should be on the previous line... sam On 04/14/2014 10:04 PM, sam sokolik wrote: ok - it is better. it seems though if one of the velocities is lower - there is a velocity constraint violation Here I am running my terco config (x and y 132ipm 20in/s^2, z 60ipm 15in

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-11 Thread sam sokolik
, I'll take a closer look at this over the weekend. I suspect this issue is due to one of the recent fixes. Do you still see violations if the Z axis limit is the same as X and Y? On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:57 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Ok - I found another issue. I have been

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-10 Thread sam sokolik
check to always be called in the function that calculates target velocity). On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:27 AM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: inital testing now the feed override acts as expected. (This is going from 100% to 90%) http://imagebin.org/302341 I still see the same

Re: [Emc-developers] sim gotchas in sim/axis/lathe

2014-04-10 Thread sam sokolik
you could do something as simple as G20 F15 G21 On 04/10/2014 08:03 PM, Eric Keller wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I don't think it was quite all that encompassing before, Andy, and you are by pure common sense correct. So if I run in metric

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-02 Thread sam sokolik
somewhere in the near future or will we have to wait until Robert has done more to it? I'm not sure exactly what state it's in currently. After i make the 2.6 branch I hope to speak with Sam Sokolik and Robert Ellenberg and see where things stand. I'm hoping to merge it into master

Re: [Emc-developers] Announcing the LinuxCNC 2.6 branch

2014-04-02 Thread sam sokolik
Just because it didn't make it into 2.6 doesn't mean it isn't going to happen. This isn't the end of the world. Have you seen the todo list? There have been a few calls for help http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Todo-2.6 As far as rt_preempt - I have tested it using the unified

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-01 Thread sam sokolik
to be incorporated somewhere in the near future or will we have to wait until Robert has done more to it? I'm not sure exactly what state it's in currently. After i make the 2.6 branch I hope to speak with Sam Sokolik and Robert Ellenberg and see where things stand. I'm hoping to merge it into master

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-28 Thread sam sokolik
any unexpected changes. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:57 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.comwrote: I did a quick test - Doesn't run full speed now. There are some spikes (if I have the MV slider set to 20ipm - I see spikes to 20.7) I don't know if it is an issue or not. (I don't think

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-28 Thread sam sokolik
adaptive-feed seems to work as expected.. This is setting it from 1 to .5 http://imagebin.org/302346 sam On 3/28/2014 5:42 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 28 March 2014 02:57, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: I did a quick test - Doesn't run full speed now. There are some spikes (if I

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-27 Thread sam sokolik
at a much higher feedrate.. sam On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:03:50 -0500 sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: here is 50% (1750mm/min) http://imagebin.org/301967 sam On 03/26/2014 02:49 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: One thing I noticed... Lets say we are running that profile at 3500mm/s

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-27 Thread sam sokolik
should fix that. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:59 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: here is a video showing the jumping of the velocity. (we cobbled together an old terco trainer to play with) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mz7tzVSsYkfeature=youtu.be here is the little machine

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-27 Thread sam sokolik
: Good catch! It wasn't checking the slider max velocity (tp.vLimit) when doing ramped velocity, so those sections ran at full speed. The latest push to the RC3 branch should fix that. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:59 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: here is a video showing the jumping

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-26 Thread sam sokolik
acceleration both sqrt(2) * a_max might move more quickly in programs with a lot of detail like stellabee1.ngc. -Rob On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:47 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: I have a question about the acceleration limits. (and I might be nit-picking here) But I have been goofing

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-26 Thread sam sokolik
with a lot of detail like stellabee1.ngc. -Rob On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:47 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: I have a question about the acceleration limits. (and I might be nit-picking here) But I have been goofing around with the trochoidal.ngc file from http

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-24 Thread sam sokolik
I have a question about the acceleration limits. (and I might be nit-picking here) But I have been goofing around with the trochoidal.ngc file from http://www.vagrearg.org/gcmc/trochoidal.ngc.gz I see when I push the velocity up to 3500mm/min - the peak velocity starts to dip (this is with

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-21 Thread sam sokolik
I hope you can get credit somehow for the work you have done on linuxcnc! Let us know if you need anything. sam On 03/21/2014 08:44 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 3/21/2014 2:14 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Unfortunately, my schedule is filling fast as I wrap up grad school, so it will be at least

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-18 Thread sam sokolik
well - I cannot get it to do it on a different reatime build.. So maybe it is something odd with that setup... I will keep playing with it., sam // On 3/17/2014 9:03 PM, sam sokolik wrote: rob - I am seeing something odd with the realtime builds. Could there be a difference? I cannot get

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-16 Thread sam sokolik
better trying to get at the 140ipm - just a lot more jerky as it slows down for the blends.. it runs it quite a bit faster.. 18 vs 24sec http://imagebin.org/299491 thanks! sam On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:29:15 -0500 sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Yay! Thanks rob! I found out

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-15 Thread sam sokolik
a lot more jerky as it slows down for the blends.. it runs it quite a bit faster.. 18 vs 24sec http://imagebin.org/299491 thanks! sam On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:29:15 -0500 sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Yay! Thanks rob! I found out from seb that scratch debs get deleted after 1

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-12 Thread sam sokolik
/scratch-rt/ On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:50 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.comwrote: Ok - I was just going to point someone to the Debs - but they don't seem to be there... (and I don't understand how to find out why ;) ) http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/dists/lucid/scratch-rt/binary-i386

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-11 Thread sam sokolik
, sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Have to add... It still keeps the velocity up and steadier than the current tp. Again - awesome work! On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 20:28:13 -0600 sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: ran the experimental3 branch on real hardware tonight. The LHchips4 sounded

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-11 Thread sam sokolik
/forum/10-advanced-configuration/27368-new-trajectory-planner-testersprograms-wanted?start=130#44474 On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:42 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Ok - I finally got a chance to test some more real hardware. This is a bastard router that has 3 different steppers/drive

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-08 Thread sam sokolik
makes sense. large arcs or full circles running the same speed probably isn't a big deal. arcspiral and spiral running the same would probably be better (speeding up short arc segment with different axis velocites) if possible. (short arc style gcode) I might be able to run the latest

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-08 Thread sam sokolik
ran the experimental3 branch on real hardware tonight. The LHchips4 sounded real good. Now it peaks across the belly at close to the y axis velocity. Very nice! Now running steve.ngc you can really see the arc issue. X is MAX_VELOCITY = 2.33 MAX_ACCELERATION =

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-07 Thread sam sokolik
engraving to run on the fastest axis. But if your cam software outputs fitted arcs - the segments will be capped by the slowest axis. (does this makes sense?) as always - awesome work! sam On 03/07/2014 03:55 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, sam sokolik sa

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-06 Thread sam sokolik
:42 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Ok - I finally got a chance to test some more real hardware. This is a bastard router that has 3 different steppers/drive (it was a converted step/repeat machine.) I built robs latest (RC3) from the linuxcnc git and ran some of the test

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-05 Thread sam sokolik
Ok - I finally got a chance to test some more real hardware. This is a bastard router that has 3 different steppers/drive (it was a converted step/repeat machine.) I built robs latest (RC3) from the linuxcnc git and ran some of the test programs. some good news one bad. Good news. The

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-20 Thread sam sokolik
into future releases. I had some issues building v2.5_branch ('failed to remake Makefile'), but if I can get it built, it shouldn't be much work to get it running. -Rob On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:41 AM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.comwrote: I get 2 'aborting after length change!' on tort.ngc. I

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-20 Thread sam sokolik
If I understand it right - it is master. sam On 2/20/2014 8:32 AM, EBo wrote: So is this on 2.5_branch, 2.6, or the master? On Feb 20 2014 7:29 AM, sam sokolik wrote: The realtime now builds. Yay! On 2/19/2014 3:40 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Excellent! I think I fixed the build

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-19 Thread sam sokolik
. On Feb 18, 2014 2:11 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: I just tried to do a realtime build.. I get these errors 1. /home/samco/linuxcnc-arc-case/src/emc/tp/tc.c: In function 'tcFindBlendTolerance': 2. /home/samco/linuxcnc-arc-case/src/emc/tp/tc.c:391: error

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-19 Thread sam sokolik
and fmax, since I use it so often anyway. On Feb 18, 2014 2:11 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: I just tried to do a realtime build.. I get these errors 1. /home/samco/linuxcnc-arc-case/src/emc/tp/tc.c: In function 'tcFindBlendTolerance': 2. /home/samco

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-19 Thread sam sokolik
I get 2 'aborting after length change!' on tort.ngc. I was wondering why it runs almost all paraboc blends until it dawned on me that none of the arc-arc, arc-line segments are coplanar.. :) The tool path and actual path do line up now. Yay! sam On 2/19/2014 7:07 AM, sam sokolik wrote: I

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-18 Thread sam sokolik
The lhchips3.ngc is a good file for testing.. If you run it strait G64 (touch every segment) it fails constraints a hand full of times. (darn impressive.) I can give you exact examples if you would like? The big thing is - I don't think it is following the preview path. I mentioned it on

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-18 Thread sam sokolik
I just tried to do a realtime build.. I get these errors 1. /home/samco/linuxcnc-arc-case/src/emc/tp/tc.c: In function 'tcFindBlendTolerance': 2. /home/samco/linuxcnc-arc-case/src/emc/tp/tc.c:391: error: implicit declaration of function 'fmin' 3. make[2]: ***

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-18 Thread sam sokolik
outside of tp.c. This makes me wish that rtapi_math had fmin and fmax, since I use it so often anyway. On Feb 18, 2014 2:11 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: I just tried to do a realtime build.. I get these errors 1. /home/samco/linuxcnc-arc-case/src/emc/tp/tc.c

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-16 Thread sam sokolik
I did some testing with robs experimental branch (before the arc blending) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/DSC_1412.JPG Threading works! sam On 02/15/2014 10:08 PM, sam sokolik wrote: wow - can I say wow again? I have your first constraint violation. (it was the only one

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-16 Thread sam sokolik
another issue. Running tort.ngc - I get this output. 'aborting after length change!' 8 times. it doesn't follow that preview at some point also. http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/Screenshot%20from%202014-02-16%2011:50:16.png sam On 02/15/2014 06:10 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote:

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-15 Thread sam sokolik
wow - can I say wow again? I have your first constraint violation. (it was the only one in the whole program) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/LHchips3.ngc is the whole program. I paired it down to. First the coolness. Master

Re: [Emc-developers] Proper behavior when blending rapid / feed moves

2014-02-13 Thread sam sokolik
actually - it looks like the last part of the arc is also de-accelerating at a lower rate. Is this part of the problem where you don't know if that is the end of the program? sam On 2/13/2014 9:02 AM, sam sokolik wrote: cool. 'Flexable' I have a question - I am running your experimental

Re: [Emc-developers] HEADS UP: RT-preempt and network I/O/system calls from RTthreads probably not viable

2014-01-30 Thread sam sokolik
I have been helping test the mesa 7i80 (ethernet). I started with the RTnet setup but what a pain. Supported nics are very limited. When micges switched to rt_preempt there was a watchdog bug that bit the 7i80 (pun intended..) but through all the testing I don't think I once got a realtime

Re: [Emc-developers] reports on rt-preempt / latency-test: max jitter going down - FIXED

2014-01-26 Thread sam sokolik
cool - thanks for finding that. Sorry I could not test - nothing setup here - but I can test the fix monday. sam On 01/26/2014 02:07 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: I have a fix which works for me: https://github.com/mhaberler/linuxcnc/commit/10924b5509a2d2e38533a9f9e876d139a2cf5d4b (branch

Re: [Emc-developers] Beta release of circular arc blending

2014-01-09 Thread sam sokolik
Ok - todd on the forum seems to have found an ussue with W http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/10-advanced-configuration/27368-new-trajectory-planner-testersprograms-wanted#42547 He has some picuteres showing that the W axis seems to be overshooting. sam On 1/8/2014 4:39 PM,

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2014-01-08 Thread sam sokolik
. Thanks again I will be playing with this some more. On 1/7/2014 9:16 PM, sam sokolik wrote: I posted on cnczone and linuxcnc for testing.. Hopefully some of the more adventurous users will give it a try http://www.cnczone.com/forums/linuxcnc_formerly_emc2/206712-new_trajectory_planner_

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2014-01-07 Thread sam sokolik
I have a question about Controls how aggressive velocity smoothing is. It's a bit counterintuitive, a value of 0.5 means no smoothing, a value of 0.0 means every segment is smoothed. Decrease this value if the velocity profile seems to be too bumpy. ARC_BLEND_SMOOTHING_THRESHOLD = 0.4 I see in

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2014-01-07 Thread sam sokolik
, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:45 AM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: I have a question about Controls how aggressive velocity smoothing is. It's a bit counterintuitive, a value of 0.5 means no smoothing, a value of 0.0 means every segment is smoothed. Decrease this value if the velocity profile

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2014-01-05 Thread sam sokolik
now: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10948059/linuxcnc-trajectory-tests/tight%20corner%20arc%20blend.png -Rob On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:46 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: well I just ran the program - what seems to hapen is the angle between the last 2 moves is very small

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-30 Thread sam sokolik
I just ran your program in my config. It does seem to slow down more in spots than the current TP The left side for sure runs at full speed in the current tp vs the new. I think Robert should weigh in on it. Current TP http://imagebin.org/284460 New TP http://imagebin.org/284458 Here is

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-30 Thread sam sokolik
to add these features in the future. -Rob On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:37 AM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: I just ran your program in my config. It does seem to slow down more in spots than the current TP The left side for sure runs at full speed in the current tp vs the new. I

Re: [Emc-developers] circular-blend-arc-alpha

2013-12-30 Thread sam sokolik
Robert just pushed some changes today..I have not tested it. If you go back to commit 7709c21 from the 27th - I know that built. sam On 12/30/2013 09:01 PM, phill carter wrote: I am intending to test the new arc-blending with my Sherline mill by engraving pcb's. I am using Lubuntu 12.04

Re: [Emc-developers] circular-blend-arc-alpha

2013-12-30 Thread sam sokolik
and you do want to use circular-blend-arc-alpha.. sam On 12/30/2013 09:07 PM, sam sokolik wrote: Robert just pushed some changes today..I have not tested it. If you go back to commit 7709c21 from the 27th - I know that built. sam On 12/30/2013 09:01 PM, phill carter wrote: I am

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-27 Thread sam sokolik
never mind... You changed Q to default to zero - so I had a G64P.5 and in the previous build - that (as you have found out) also sets the Q to .5. So changing to G64P.5Q.5 I get the same speed. sorry sam On 12/27/2013 12:55 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Ok, I'll take a look at those versions

Re: [Emc-developers] Breaking Free of the Box

2013-12-26 Thread sam sokolik
The way I understand it - the kins are 'on top' of motion at the moment. (I don't know if ja4 solves this - but I think it is the start).. So motion calculates the xyzabcuvw limits - then they get run through the kins module which could depending on the machine layout - multiply or divide

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-26 Thread sam sokolik
Did you get a chance to see if the ini settings are working for you? I have not tested it since tuesday. could it be something I am doing wrong? thanks sam On 12/26/2013 10:54 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: I like this idea, as it would make it much easier to make changes without messing up

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-26 Thread sam sokolik
/trajectory-planner/circular-arcs/circular_arcs.ini If that works then I'd suspect a typo. On Dec 26, 2013 2:37 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Did you get a chance to see if the ini settings are working for you? I have not tested it since tuesday. could it be something I am doing

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-26 Thread sam sokolik
on your build? tests/trajectory-planner/circular-arcs/circular_arcs.ini If that works then I'd suspect a typo. On Dec 26, 2013 2:37 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Did you get a chance to see if the ini settings are working for you? I have not tested it since tuesday. could

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-25 Thread sam sokolik
if you pulled as of the 23rd.. - I could not get it to work. (seems to run like the old tp.) Things to note - the lookahead works (circular arc blending) if - line-line segments - tangent line-arc, arc-line - tangent arc-arc so if you have a bunch of non tangent arc-arc or arc-line segments -

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-24 Thread sam sokolik
/2013 5:54 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Yes, I added that one too. Keep in mind the tradeoff with this method: a large max feed override means blend arc radii are larger than you'd expect for a given feed rate. On Dec 23, 2013 6:50 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Is it seeing

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-24 Thread sam sokolik
(and I did use fallback.. (copy and paste error)) I tried for grins setting the fallback to 0 with the same result. ARC_BLEND_FALLBACK_ENABLE = 1 sam On 12/24/2013 9:45 AM, sam sokolik wrote: I added these to the traj section (from what it looks like from your expamples) ARC_BLEND_ENABLE

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-24 Thread sam sokolik
Unless I am doing something wrong :) Thanks for looking at this! sam On 12/24/2013 11:09 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Darn, I was hoping it would just work :). I'll take a look later today, chances are I forgot to commit / push something.

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-23 Thread sam sokolik
Wow - great work! I hope to test this tomorrow. sam On 12/23/2013 02:50 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: I just pushed an update that moves a few settings into the INI file. To make your config use circular arc blends, you should add these 4 lines to your config: This setting enables arc blends:

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-23 Thread sam sokolik
Is it seeing the feedrate override from the ini also? again - great work! sam On 12/23/2013 02:50 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: I just pushed an update that moves a few settings into the INI file. To make your config use circular arc blends, you should add these 4 lines to your config: This

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-23 Thread sam sokolik
one last question on smoothing.. Does that in effect 'average' out the velocity? So smoothing would make the machine run less 'bumpy' with a hit on speed? Thanks sam On 12/23/2013 02:50 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: I just pushed an update that moves a few settings into the INI file. To make

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-20 Thread sam sokolik
Did you push your changes last night? I don't see them in the circular-blend-arc-alpha branch. (last commit is on the 18th.) (no rush - have a good trip!) sam On 12/19/2013 08:54 PM, sam sokolik wrote: awesome - can't wait to try it! Great work! sam On 12/19/2013 06:32 PM, Robert

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-20 Thread sam sokolik
Ok - the changes showed up - built and ran the program that was causing the violations - YAY! I will keep hammering on it thanks again - impressive work! sam On 12/20/2013 4:52 AM, sam sokolik wrote: Did you push your changes last night? I don't see them in the circular-blend-arc-alpha

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-19 Thread sam sokolik
-beta8real/src$ On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:57:23 -0600 sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: also - your current pushes didn't compile for me.. I did a git pull this afternoon and I noticed it failed. (sorry I didn't have time to copy the error) sam On 12/18/2013 08:26 AM, sa

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-18 Thread sam sokolik
tolerable in the short term. On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:46 AM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Running your current pushes as of this morning - I have had no overages!! I will keep hammering away at it. Thanks again - this is very impressive sam. On 12/16/2013 8:49 PM, Robert

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-18 Thread sam sokolik
still see the occasional jump up to 30.01 or 30.02 in some runs, which I haven't pinned down exactly. Still, a ~.1% overage is probably tolerable in the short term. On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:46 AM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Running your current pushes as of this morning - I

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-16 Thread sam sokolik
you can really see it if you slow down the acceleration to 1in/sec^2 sam On 12/16/2013 10:34 AM, sam sokolik wrote: This program (which should be tangent arcs) seems to slow down to a stop at the beginning of the first and last arc. % (1 square with rounded corners) G90 G54 G20 G64 G0 X0

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-16 Thread sam sokolik
should be enough to flag the last move. Similarly, I could make blend arc creation work on the unchanged portion of a segment in progress. Rob On Dec 16, 2013 11:34 AM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: This program (which should be tangent arcs) seems to slow down to a stop

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-15 Thread sam sokolik
config with a base thread, and spoof an e-stop. This way, the parallel port can be disconnected to do build tests. -Rob On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 2:44 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: I forgot to say - I just pulled your latest changes before testing... sam On 12/13/2013 1:37 PM

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-15 Thread sam sokolik
13, 2013 at 2:44 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: I forgot to say - I just pulled your latest changes before testing... sam On 12/13/2013 1:37 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Can you send a link to that G code? I'd like to run it myself and see if I can pinpoint the slowdown. I've

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-13 Thread sam sokolik
Couple of things. arc-arc blends are slower than current TP... current tp does arcspiral at a peak of 100ipm while the new TP does it at about 70. So current TP http://imagebin.org/282155 1:19 minutes New TP http://imagebin.org/282156 1:51 (you can see it does parabolic blends) The neat thing

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-13 Thread sam sokolik
oops http://imagebin.org/282157 sam On 12/13/2013 1:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 13 December 2013 14:19:45 sam sokolik did opine: Couple of things. arc-arc blends are slower than current TP... current tp does arcspiral at a peak of 100ipm while the new TP does it at about 70. So

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-13 Thread sam sokolik
of little slowdowns over the last week, so the problem may already be solved. Thanks! Rob On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 2:00 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Couple of things. arc-arc blends are slower than current TP... current tp does arcspiral at a peak of 100ipm while

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-13 Thread sam sokolik
week, so the problem may already be solved. Thanks! Rob On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 2:00 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: Couple of things. arc-arc blends are slower than current TP... current tp does arcspiral at a peak of 100ipm while the new TP does it at about 70. So current

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-12 Thread sam sokolik
very fast. (I should try arcspiral.) If I get some time - I will try some threading on real hardware. I think more people need to start testing this. As always - great work! sam On 12/10/2013 05:33 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: On Dec 10, 2013 6:25 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-10 Thread sam sokolik
Cool - but how long does that take - I am not seeing a commit nor does it build yet.. https://github.com/robEllenberg/linuxcnc-mirror/compare/circular-blend-arc-alpha Thanks! sam On 12/10/2013 8:13 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Sorry about that, I just pushed a fix. I had the debug flags enabled

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-12-10 Thread sam sokolik
ah - now I see it. trying now thanks again! sam On 12/10/2013 8:30 AM, sam sokolik wrote: Cool - but how long does that take - I am not seeing a commit nor does it build yet.. https://github.com/robEllenberg/linuxcnc-mirror/compare/circular-blend-arc-alpha Thanks! sam On 12/10/2013 8:13

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