[Emc-developers] 2.9.1 amd 64 live usi

2023-12-08 Thread TJoseph Powderly
My hd crashed. Rebuilt some of trashed partition using rescueCD and PhotoRec to recover text files. The i goughta WD Green 250G SSD. Then bought a Sandisk 32G thumb. I followed linuxcnc's howto and loaded the 2.9.1 amd 74 iso. Could not get zsync to work it saying it couldnt find the necc file.

Re: [Emc-developers] spindle speed hall sensor magnet

2020-11-06 Thread TJoseph Powderly
thanks all I will avoid the glue & imbalance problem by using optical reflector. Interesting, the epoxy putty toroid flew apart leaving a section that included the magnet. i concluded the bond to the steel was not uniform despite prep.. Now looking for opto and matte black paint. Thx

[Emc-developers] linuxcnc openlung ventilators

2020-03-23 Thread TJoseph Powderly
How can Linuxcnc people help with OpenLung? https://gitlab.com/open-source-ventilator/OpenLung tomp ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy Tweak?

2020-02-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Gestures? I can imagine a big x swipe. But that may conflict with mapped sensitive area type I/ f. Or an external hdwr button/ Frankenstein lever :-) Tomp On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 8:04 PM andy pugh wrote: > I use Touchy on my lathe and Mill. > I find it fiddly to shut down the PC / System using

Re: [Emc-developers] back to the keyboard failure in the testing strech image

2019-07-09 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Gene, another common thing to your keyboard problem is that you use USB. Try gpio maybe, see https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=155973 3 suggestions there. let the system run till your usb kbs craps out and check a few test keys tied to gpio. if the test keys are good and the usb

Re: [Emc-developers] Is there way to disable "probe" when not executing a G38.x?

2018-06-30 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Ah yes. The problem is not solved. And the stated idea of a moving two or three inches away is still not convenient. 'nuff said' snuffy smith Tomp On Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 23:04 andy pugh wrote: > On 30 June 2018 at 15:44, TJoseph Powderly wrote: > > > When you want the pr

Re: [Emc-developers] Is there way to disable "probe" when not executing a G38.x?

2018-06-30 Thread TJoseph Powderly
"""And it totally ignores swarf or tool induced shorts when not actually doing a g38.x. """ And... When you want the probe and have the swarf short... Whaddayado then? Did you remap to add a message and a M00, or an air blast ? Tomp On Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 22:19 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday

Re: [Emc-developers] few or none user list / dev list messages

2017-01-31 Thread TJoseph Powderly
well I'm glad its not silence, just busy quiet. for myself I'm building 3.3 to 5V level shifters for a pci parport card and playing in hal. so happy lunar new year! gung hey fat choi! sawatdii pi mai! tomp tjtr33 --

[Emc-developers] few or none user list / dev list messages

2017-01-31 Thread TJoseph Powderly
is the message list really this dead? meaning: not even one msg from gene for days? hard to believe! paranoia: is this a result of the new regime? if so, thanks for the (shared) memories (Bob Hope) regards tjtr33 tomp --

Re: [Emc-developers] Graphical HAL Viewer-Editor

2016-11-24 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Jim very interesting the first thing i did with the pdf is to try to understand what it represented i find myself zooming and panning between different areas a lot and opting to use an intermediate value of zoom where the text is barely legible, just so i get a larger scope i ran into the same

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC 2.6.13 is out!

2016-11-06 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Thank you to all the developers testers and otherwise... wise peoples for working on this ( i remember telling JMK at a long past emc fest, that he was a real wise guy but i think he didnt get the right idea ;-) ( to clarify .. you guys is pretty smart and real nice to share all this work with

Re: [Emc-developers] Graphical HAL Viewer-Editor

2016-10-31 Thread TJoseph Powderly
i did not know of Xcos, thanks Andy tomp -- Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and

Re: [Emc-developers] New to developers list --> gschem symbols

2016-10-27 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Nicklas, there are python tools that communicate with Gschem. I didnt want to look into Scheme, also did not try these. just fyi http://robertobucher.dti.supsi.ch/files/2014/06/DescPython.pdf some gEda shape creation in python https://xgoat.com/wp/tag/python/ hth tomp tjtr33

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2016-10-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/26/16 20:12, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 10/26/2016 7:53 AM, andy pugh wrote: >> Also, you can add your own metadata into a database and a query will >> still work with whatever default query LinuxCNC is supplied with. If >> you add members to a flat-file (or set of several flat

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2016-10-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
(best read with fixed width font ;-) Tool Number Limit or Limitations of Tool Tables? The limitation might be the structure ( as in C ) , not the number of entries. thinking that tool diameter, length, rpm, feed, stepover, plunge increment might suffice ignores the power level, pulse width

Re: [Emc-developers] THC with 5 axis plasma

2016-09-21 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hello, when the plasma is at an angle to work, it is more difficult for the control to 'see' the height ( one side of the surface is often gone ). Similar to drilling a sphere, its easy when the drill path is a radius to center, but difficult when off center, very difficult as you approach the

Re: [Emc-developers] gschem --> *.hal

2016-07-04 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Gene look at the content and see if what you are viewing really is SVG (Dotty can output a lot of formats ) 1) SVG is a great idea but browsers dont play nice with it for a while i used Opera as it was better than FFox 2) rt click and save it 'as' the open in inkscape 3) punt tomp tjtr33 On

Re: [Emc-developers] gschem --> *.hal

2016-07-03 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hi Nicklas, http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HalSchematicsUsingGschem I wrote that stuff i found the scaling and idea of threads to be a limitation scaling as in scope,meaning, when you can see the pin, you cant see the overall so i used sheets ( like meta widgets ) to contain ideas

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-03-09 Thread TJoseph Powderly
on the Agie. > > Pete Gruendeman > > -------- > On Wed, 3/9/16, TJoseph Powderly <tjt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters) > To: "EMC developers" <emc-de

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-03-09 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Nicklas, On 03/09/2016 05:08 PM, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > Timer could be configured for: one shot, re-trigger, continuous. sounds great, > Micro controller have built in comparators and I should use one for sparc > detection and the other for start of ionization. Comparator outputs may be >

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-03-09 Thread TJoseph Powderly
ey are really good and available from maybe a few dollars each. > > Regards Nicklas Karlsson > > > On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 14:10:03 +0800 > TJoseph Powderly <tjt...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Niklas Pete, >> if you want ISOPULS ( isoenergetic pulses that have uniform c

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-03-08 Thread TJoseph Powderly
>> On Sun, 3/6/16, Nicklas Karlsson <nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters) >> To: "EMC developers" <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Date: Sunday, March 6

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-03-07 Thread TJoseph Powderly
NOTEBOOK NOW! ;-) tomp on 03/07/2016 12:22 Nicklas Karlsson wrote:nk On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:23:31 +0800 TJoseph Powderly <tjt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> off time is really dpendant on flushing conditions >> on time causes rougher finer surface finish > I guess this explain it

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-03-06 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 03/07/2016 02:13 AM, Pete_Gruendeman wrotry spark?re: > Hi Nicklas: > I am not seeing any response on this forum regarding the erosion pulse > frequency. > Wikipedia mentions on their Electrical_discharge_machining page: >> Several hundred thousand sparks occur per second... > and in

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-03-06 Thread TJoseph Powderly
sorry pete niklas grab the POCO EDM MANUAL from internet it shows fequencies ( or on times so you calculate ) off time is really dpendant on flushing conditions on time causes rougher finer surface finish so there is frequency but frequency is a result not a determinate parameter examples roughing

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-03-03 Thread TJoseph Powderly
e edm base is sable2015 from taiwan stepper position loop control with HAL positioning between different cuts by linuxcncse gen real pulse generator with on off peak current 115Vdc open voltage blah blahblah just so you can see real edm in diy environment https://videobin.org/+8ku/bfq.html

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-03-02 Thread TJoseph Powderly
ss to the motion control > software. > > Pete Gruendeman > > > > On Wed, 3/2/16, TJoseph Powderly <tjt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters) > To: "EMC developers" <emc-develope

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-03-02 Thread TJoseph Powderly
sorry Pete I disagree, any time spent in the wrong position is time spent making bad discharges which can damage surface by overheating or spend time throwing snowballs that fall short of hitting the target imo, update postion as fast as possible the average velocity ( a RESULT) will be low but

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-03-02 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Nicklaus hello even tho the average velocity is low it is important to move to the correct position as soon as possible if the tool is too close it will cause thousands of bad discharges per second and damage the stock ( velocity is NOT important, position IS important) if the tool is too far away

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control

2016-02-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
wow! thanks andy will look for it. really a big thing for me. +++many beers for andy On 02/27/2016 08:45 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 27 February 2016 at 00:40, TJoseph Powderly <tjt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> i didnt know the linuxcnc adaptive feed rate was bidirectional > It isn

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control

2016-02-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
i didnt know the linuxcnc adaptive feed rate was bidirectional mydynac's tests were just slow down, ditto for ray henry my bad thanks andy tomp On 02/27/2016 12:02 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 26 February 2016 at 15:06, TJoseph Powderly <tjt...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> the no

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap controlnt

2016-02-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
or in a specified direction. Escaping off the program >> path is the essential part, not just backup up and dragging the electrode >> through the contamination bits. > I repeat: This is for sinker, Not wire. > Pete Gruendeman > > > On Friday, February 26, 2016 9:06

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)

2016-02-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
good going nicklaus! many experienced operator never see the relation of setpoint and 'smooth' but beware, too smooth is sluggish, so jab a screwdriver in the gap during tests to make sure the system immediately retracts. the setpoint for graphite to steel for positive polarity is 29 to 32 volts

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control

2016-02-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
adaptive feed slows down till the velocity does not overshoot the removal rate that aint edm, thats following the slow truck in the slow lane reversal aint what edm is about unless things are near fatally bad. the normal motion in edm is a jiggly motion that on-the-average moves towards a

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control (Control parameters)based

2016-02-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
traditional edm gap control as developed by the Lazerenko's is based of maintaining a gap voltage. * non-traditional ( in the niche of EDM ) can be ignition delay based, current exchange * or a hybrid ( see JSEM journals the japanese journals or ISEM for the rest of the EDM world or

Re: [Emc-developers] EDM gap control

2016-02-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
nicklaus there is NO feedrate for edm period! the process determines the correct position the control system should move to the correct position as fast as possible the correct position should be close if the control system is at all adequate for edm there is NO feedrate for edm tomp 40+ years

Re: [Emc-developers] mega-I/O board?

2016-02-16 Thread TJoseph Powderly
gene, sorry for your experience for me they just worked using a 8255 driver from ancient emc2. i did have to use pull downs and it can be found in old mail archives. another member said they didnt work for him, but that member did not try the resistors or did not to my knowledge. lemme know in a

Re: [Emc-developers] mega-I/O board?

2016-02-15 Thread TJoseph Powderly
180 is a boatload! i used the 72 i/o ( 3x8255) thai pci but it was pooh poohed here despite it works for me with pull downs. from futurlec maybe he could use a plc, maybe automation direct aka Toyo as most i/o wont need realtime, i think ( underline!) that, at most, 'wait till completed' code

Re: [Emc-developers] Prempt RT on Raspi/ARM

2016-02-04 Thread TJoseph Powderly
niklas, please refrain from immense insults saying someone is like a salesperson!!! :-) when the revolution comes, salesmen & lawyers will be first up against the wall and yes you ought to converse with the machinekit crew dividing the cpu load between computers is part of their premise they

Re: [Emc-developers] Prempt RT on Raspi/ARM

2016-02-03 Thread TJoseph Powderly
but we ( linuxcnc ) do not offload simple realtime tasks to reliable non-jitter microcontrollers. i still cannot see why not. we take tasks like reading buttons and sensors and activating valves and updating analog values into an environment that cannot perform as well. i know this is anathema

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Help with Hal programming

2016-01-15 Thread TJoseph Powderly
and to use hal without linuxcnc... assuming you have a RIP ( run-in-place build of linuxcnc ) somewhere open a terminal, cd pathtoyourRIP . scripts/linuxcnc-environment scripts/halrun -I -f /apthtoyourcustomhalfile/yourcustomhalfile it is very important to have the '.' in the 2nd line my hal

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Help with Hal programming

2016-01-15 Thread TJoseph Powderly
t's > > . ./scripts/rip-environment > > On 1/15/2016 5:04 AM, TJoseph Powderly wrote: >> and to use hal without linuxcnc... >> >> assuming you have a RIP ( run-in-place build of linuxcnc ) somewhere >> >> open a terminal, >> >> cd pathtoyourRIP

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Help with Hal programming

2016-01-15 Thread TJoseph Powderly
vironment > > On 1/15/2016 5:04 AM, TJoseph Powderly wrote: >> and to use hal without linuxcnc... >> >> assuming you have a RIP ( run-in-place build of linuxcnc ) somewhere >> >> open a terminal, >> >> cd pathtoyourRIP >> . scripts/linuxc

Re: [Emc-developers] StepNC file as input to LinuxCNC

2016-01-15 Thread TJoseph Powderly
CMC? compact motion controller? central message controller? C model compiler? color me confused? ( my best bet ) I found 292 acronym definitions but haven't found one that fits your message well what is CMC? the project you mention tried to convert Step to gcode. internally linuxcnc does not

Re: [Emc-developers] StepNC file as input to LinuxCNC

2016-01-15 Thread TJoseph Powderly
cool i didnt know about the toolkit https://code.google.com/p/iso-14649-toolkit/ thanks & best of luck, keep us posted -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM:

Re: [Emc-developers] StepNC file as input to LinuxCNC

2016-01-15 Thread TJoseph Powderly
NML is Neutral Messaging language invented by NIST and used in what was called EMC ( Enhanced Machine Controller, the code that became LinuxCNC ) this discussion may be of use http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.user/47151 and this reference

Re: [Emc-developers] video tutorial idea

2016-01-06 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Desktop recording on wheezy linuxcnc distro works for me. I added gtkRecordMyDesktop and pavucontrol then told pavucontrol to use 'monitor' for recording. Now i have a vumeter for sound level, and can record anything that comes on my desktop... sound and video. caveat: it records whats on your

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving closer to embedded

2015-12-25 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Jon, you previously posted about repair using a material injected into cracks from inside. I had my basement repaired that way and the annoying trickle across the basement floor is now gone. Small flanged pipes were inserted along the crack and the epoxy-like material was injected at those

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving closer to embedded

2015-12-25 Thread TJoseph Powderly
basement fix pix 500$ total, with guarantee since I'm in Thailand, and the crack is in Chicago, i think its a good investment tomp tjtr33 -- ___ Emc-developers mailing list

Re: [Emc-developers] jerk limited trajectory

2015-12-24 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Gerald Farin? CAGD Nurbs guy? tomp -- ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] jerk limited trajectory

2015-12-22 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Yishin hello Am I right to think you want to be able to turn spindle to any degree? like G01 C35.678 ? In sink Edm we do not spin the tool but use C axis on end of Z to orient tool ( electrode) to workpiece (mold cavity). Sometimes... we do use as spindle, but for sink edm it is slow compared

Re: [Emc-developers] jerk limited trajectory

2015-12-15 Thread TJoseph Powderly
the math jerk vs the actual jerk... how the machine tool reacts rather than the velocity jerks that can be calculated... maybe a test run could record the jerk and then a filtered run could avoid those high speed, high mass, hair pin turns or even hi speed pecking that actually hammers the

Re: [Emc-developers] Spotted on Ali-Express (Via the forum)

2015-11-05 Thread TJoseph Powderly
another misconception on my part. i thought use of ethernet & hardware stepgens drastically reduced the need for fast pc threads. that latency didnt matter as much. i thought that 25 or 35uS latencies didnt matter. that even a 525 would work well given proper interface boards for me it's always

Re: [Emc-developers] Spotted on Ali-Express (Via the forum)

2015-11-05 Thread TJoseph Powderly
thx andy and this too someone offers both a computer and the cards for a realtime system

Re: [Emc-developers] XKCD

2015-10-30 Thread TJoseph Powderly
thx seb i was gonna get all sarky and repost hitler does git your post is much more helpful TomP tjtr33 -- ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] normal.z=0.039370

2015-10-12 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/12/2015 08:08 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 12 October 2015 at 13:59, TJoseph Powderly <tjt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hint: you only need 2 angles, 3 is really overconstrained. >> It ___really___ makes programming easy. >> All programming is just like you had a tru

Re: [Emc-developers] normal.z=0.039370

2015-10-12 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/12/2015 08:50 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Gentlemen, > On my Fanuc 15mb control I would use G68 and G69 to rotate the coordinate > system. > I was allowed to rotate any axis by an amount > > ex. > G68 X0 Y0 Z1 R20 was a rotation of the XY plane by 20 degrees. I am not > sure R was the

Re: [Emc-developers] normal.z=0.039370

2015-10-12 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/12/2015 08:54 AM, Chris Lesiak wrote: > On 10/12/2015 08:08 AM, andy pugh wrote: >> I think we need to consider whether we want arbitrary arcs or >> arbitrary working planes. They are not really the same thing. Out of >> interest, with the Heidenhain code, what happens to the apparent XYZ >>

Re: [Emc-developers] normal.z=0.039370

2015-10-12 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/12/2015 12:20 PM, EBo wrote: > On Oct 12 2015 9:42 AM, TJoseph Powderly wrote: >> >> BTW when a simple ROTATE (not the 3D titl plane ) >> is used on Heidenhain, theres a >> machine parm that allows the DRO to show the new X' and Y' >> so radial moves make mor

Re: [Emc-developers] normal.z=0.039370

2015-10-12 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/12/2015 12:11 PM, EBo wrote: > On Oct 12 2015 10:01 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: >> >> I think we should be able to probe coordinate rotations >> >> Two points for a plane rotation and three for a complete coordinate >> system >> orientation > > If you only probe 2, there are special

Re: [Emc-developers] "LinuxCNC Features"

2015-09-15 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hi Nick, thanks for the message. Your 'Features' is nice. Thanks to FernV also. The name change is just to avoid some confusion. Большое спасибо хорошая работа ! regards TomP tjtr33 On 09/15/2015 01:55 AM, Nick wrote: > Major benefit of including Features into the LinuxCNC - is making it much >

Re: [Emc-developers] "LinuxCNC Features"

2015-09-14 Thread TJoseph Powderly
The popularity might be the difficulty in installing Nick's Features. I havent followed the forum, and i have asked. I will read the forum now. And for the name.. Linuxcnc Features or Features is about as good as Axis google linuxcnc axis to see why didnt hurt the popularity of axis the front

Re: [Emc-developers] "LinuxCNC Features"

2015-09-14 Thread TJoseph Powderly
yes Nick has several oyutube videos, google "youtube cnc ru features" > Has anyone made videos to showcase it running? > -- ___ Emc-developers mailing list

Re: [Emc-developers] "LinuxCNC Features"

2015-09-14 Thread TJoseph Powderly
better yet google "Nick Drobchenko" he's the wiz tomp -- ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run

2015-09-11 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hello Robert, If I program a completely tangential path, does blending still occur? With the new TP, what governs the actual speed along such a path? regarding sam's note about reversing stopping at tool change sounds like a 'glue stop' in WEDM speak, where we'd change the power setting and

Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run

2015-09-08 Thread TJoseph Powderly
In the old days, we always wrote completely tangential paths for WEDM. Not hard to do, kept you aware of the minimum radii that the wire kerf could actually fit in. If its tangential ( never line to line transitions ), how can there be any blending? I'd think only velocity blending might occur,

Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run

2015-09-07 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Sam & Rob this is great news. I'm guessing here, but, exact stop may not bother some really slow processes (like WEDM wink wink nudge nudge ). WEDM Max velocities are often < 1meter per minute ( way less ). yes Rob is a genius! Thanks TomP TjTr33 On 09/07/2015 08:53 PM, sam sokolik wrote: >

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.7.0 is out!

2015-09-05 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Yow! Thanks Robert, Jepler, Seb I am so far behind, still discovering the wonders of last feature set! Thanks to all TomP TjTr33 haha I kill kokomo , wasnt that cat-typing? On 09/05/2015 09:03 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > After many new features, much testing, and many bug fixes, I'm

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Reverse Run

2015-04-18 Thread TJoseph Powderly
, TJoseph Powderly tjt...@gmail.com wrote: You may find that the adaptive feedrate idea is very wrong for edm. I think that the adaptive feed pin was introduced for wire EDM, and if it doesn't work properly for that then it ought to change. so, imo the adaptive feed is incorrect imo adaptive feed

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Reverse Run

2015-04-14 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Robert, thanks for looking into it On 04/14/2015 10:17 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Very interesting stuff! I have some ideas for how to implement a more EDM-appropriate reverse run mechanism based on what you describe. Here's a short list of new features we would need to address your concerns

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Reverse Run

2015-04-14 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 04/14/2015 11:02 AM, andy pugh wrote: sorry andy still working my way thru these posts, and i am slow On 11 April 2015 at 16:13, TJoseph Powderly tjt...@gmail.com wrote: You may find that the adaptive feedrate idea is very wrong for edm. I think that the adaptive feed pin was introduced

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Reverse Run

2015-04-14 Thread TJoseph Powderly
g30 g30.1? interesting when combines with retract and i see the intermediate point would be easy ( the rufpoint might be an intermediate point from the cone surface towards the startpoint above the workpiece. i really have to do some drawings :| thx for the reminder about G30 tomp tjtr33 On

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Reverse Run

2015-04-14 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 04/14/2015 05:46 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 23:26, TJoseph Powderly tjt...@gmail.com wrote: yes, seems true. i hope your view of the time sale for reversals is at most millisecs. the immediate velocity has nothing to do with the previous, there is no velocity smoothing. I

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Reverse Run

2015-04-12 Thread TJoseph Powderly
is a Y component. I chose an example where the X cut was rotated 0 degrees, so the scope showed the joint display ( not axis ) hth tomp On 04/11/2015 11:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 April 2015 22:22:51 TJoseph Powderly wrote: yes Gene this is imagebin http://ibin.co/1xzMzQKBwggW thx

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Reverse Run

2015-04-12 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Gene i cnat show pix of the actual machine and parts ( proprietary) but here's edm using linuxcnc to position ( pose) and hal to cut http://videobin.org/+6cw/786.html ^^^ no need to join here either, regards tomp On 04/12/2015 10:00 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Sometime, you might describe how noisy

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Reverse Run

2015-04-11 Thread TJoseph Powderly
TJoseph Powderly wrote: resending, no attachment using url instead https://www.dropbox.com/s/xbmd0cij2ml9knn/edmGapSignal-vs-XpositionOve rTime.jpg?dl=0 This is not a viewer friendly site TomP. It opens the jpeg, and goes into a loop displaying the join requestor on top of it for about 3/4 second

[Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Reverse Run

2015-04-11 Thread TJoseph Powderly
resending, no attachment using url instead https://www.dropbox.com/s/xbmd0cij2ml9knn/edmGapSignal-vs-XpositionOverTime.jpg?dl=0 Original Message Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:07:06 -0500 From: TJoseph Powderly tjt...@gmail.com To: EMC

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: Reverse Run

2015-04-11 Thread TJoseph Powderly
gene, you're right dropbox was suggested to me when the msg bounced 1st time i finally got a tester that never used dropbox and found he saw same as you will use imagebin like i always did before thx for catching this tomp

Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run

2015-04-09 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Robert On 04/09/2015 02:00 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Ahh, that's because I just threw that pin in as a debug output to see if the state was being changed properly. I think we'll need some kind of command / feedback pin arrangement, since we won't always be able to flip between forward /

Re: [Emc-developers] New GCode Editor

2015-02-20 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hr Masemann, Thank you I searched Youtube and found you have 4 tutorials for Lonnox. eg 'Tutorial 1 - Was ist Lonnox CUT' Others can find them easily. Also you have supplied one introduction on Youtube. I did not find your website yet regards TomP On 02/20/2015 02:47 AM, kmasem...@aol.com

Re: [Emc-developers] new prerelease: 2.7.0~pre3

2015-02-20 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Seb et al Thanks again my plate is too full! tomp On 02/19/2015 11:28 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: We just reached a milestone in the ongoing work to stabilize the 2.7 branch in preparation for the upcoming 2.7.0 release. I present to you the 2.7.0~pre3 pre-release. ... The folks who

Re: [Emc-developers] Vismach docs

2014-10-13 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hello Dave On 10/13/2014 03:57 AM, David Armstrong wrote: i'm looking at Vismach , as i have been asked to produce a layout so any clues is good , then at least i'm only running half blind ! did the wiki pages or updates at bottom help? I dont knpw what you're missing,and you cant describe it

Re: [Emc-developers] Vismach docs

2014-10-12 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/12/2014 03:37 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 12 October 2014 21:29, TJoseph Powderly tjt...@gmail.com wrote: I will put that up on a wiki page so all can add/correct it There already is a Wiki page, I don't think adding another one is the way to go. yes, i meant add to it didja know

Re: [Emc-developers] Remote Display

2014-10-06 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/06/2014 09:47 AM, EBo wrote: I know that Yishin Li's FPGA board can communicate via USB, and has something like 65ms of buffering internal (with the appropriate logic to interrupt ASAP when necessary). There is also the web interface MiniEMC which is embedded and has a remote head. So,

Re: [Emc-developers] How to check G-Code before executing with python

2014-09-12 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hello maybe you could use the SAI ( Stand Alone Interpreter found in ...src/emc/sai ) and have a python wrapper to call it , then python examine the output ? regards TomP tjtr33 On 09/12/2014 12:51 PM, Niemand Sonst wrote: I found the following problem with gmoccapy and gscreen and also

Re: [Emc-developers] How to check G-Code before executing with python

2014-09-12 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Norbert, best to ask on dev irc or dev email list. the error is beyond my inderstanding AND thanks for all the great work! tomp tjtr33 On 09/12/2014 01:38 PM, Niemand Sonst wrote: Thanks for the hint, I just checked from a terminal, but giving rs274

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.5.4 is released!

2014-04-17 Thread TJoseph Powderly
thanks guys! tompm (tjtr33) -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field,

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-21 Thread TJoseph Powderly
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 two months before I can tackle big changes like this. Still, when I do get the time, it'll be nice to implement. Thank you very much for all your work Best

Re: [Emc-developers] GentooCNC

2014-03-02 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 03/02/2014 11:58 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 3/2/2014 10:24 AM, TJoseph Powderly wrote: maybe an url will help people find your stuff It's on sourceforge, and probably new enough Google's crawlers haven't hit it yet: http://gentoocnc.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] GentooCNC

2014-03-02 Thread TJoseph Powderly
EBo, Slawek, thanks looking forward to your work ( will be more patient ;) TomP -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that

[Emc-developers] house tomp

2014-01-27 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Dennis Thanks for stopping by, sorry I was grumpy, no good excuse. Please dont worry about the house maybe drive by and see if its still there :) I'm in Ky now, Mon night got one up and running but I'm not happy its too sensitive to flush pressure other one is running too its problem is, IF it

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

2013-12-26 Thread TJoseph Powderly
re: work envelopes heres a simplified overview of several work envelopes http://thnet.co.uk/thnet/robots/25.htm regards TomP tjtr33 -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT

Re: [Emc-developers] Emc-developers Digest, Vol 91, Issue 66

2013-11-30 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Michael, Stuart, John K et al ... snip ... sometimes I do get the impression I am talking against a wall of solid disinterest, maybe some not-invented-here here with rather few exceptions (thanks btw!). Not that this deters me, it's just a bit irritating to see this complete disinterest in a

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

2013-11-11 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 11/11/2013 02:41 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: I've been doing some rework to fix the issues we found. ...snippety snip snip snip I'm going to run all of my test code again tonight and save logs / scope screenshots to my public folder here:

Re: [Emc-developers] Trajectory Lookahead progress and demo

2013-10-24 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/24/2013 02:32 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Hi All, I've made some progress on the trajectory lookahead features. To test the idea of blending with arc segments, I modified the code to be able to follow a tangent path without slowing down. There's no blending done in the code yet, but

Re: [Emc-developers] Jepler's Linear Delta Kinematics

2013-10-02 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/02/2013 09:09 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I'm finally ready to get my linear delta 3D printer up and running, but jepler's lineardeltakins branch seems to have disappeared. I have copies of this in my stale clone of the LinuxCNC repository on github, but before I merge the commits

Re: [Emc-developers] Jepler's Linear Delta Kinematics

2013-10-02 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/02/2013 10:38 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I'm in the process of rebasing joints_axes3 into a new branch i'm calling joints_axes4, on top of master. It's more work than anticipated, and I got sidetracked by non-linuxcnc stuff most of September, but i'm hoping to finish it up as soon

Re: [Emc-developers] Proposing a Lookahead implementation for the EMC2 module

2013-09-28 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 09/28/2013 07:33 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: That sounds like a good simplification. I like the idea of limiting the horizon to the stopping distance, though unfortunately it's not a straightforward calculation as of now. The big complication is that the blends are constant speed, so only a

Re: [Emc-developers] Proposing a Lookahead implementation for the EMC2 module

2013-09-28 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 09/28/2013 09:09 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Thanks for the explanation! if we're lucky, such a feature wouldn't take a separate optimization, since the forward and reverse trajectories have the same speed and acceleration bounds. Once lookahead is implemented, It sounds like a good feature

Re: [Emc-developers] Rockhopper revisited

2013-07-22 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hello Peter, these docs for Rockhopper http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Rockhopper_Web_Server say the python API for Linuxcnc are at http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/config/ini_config.html#_emc_section_a_id_sub_emc_section_a but thats an explanation of a .ini file where is the API

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