Re: [Emc-developers] Looking for rtapi_shmem example between RT- C comp and Uspace Python comp?

2023-11-17 Thread Sam Sokolik
are you talking e-offset pins? Those are realtime.. I am using a realtime comp to do spindle synced motion... It works great.. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nViXP9SsdWc sam On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 10:39 AM Ted wrote: > On 11/17/2023 10:49 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > Is this related to

Re: [Emc-developers] lcnc bug in master?

2023-10-14 Thread Sam Sokolik
I have actually seen this playing with axis from master on bookworm. At some point the refresh button in axis just quits working. You have to physically re-open the gcode file for the changes to show up. Then the refresh button will work for a bit. I thought it was just me... On Sat, Oct 14,

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: Upcoming stable (12.2) and oldstable (11.8) point releases

2023-09-02 Thread Sam Sokolik
What is involved? On Sat, Sep 2, 2023 at 3:05 AM Hans Unzner wrote: > Yes we should use the opportunity and build a debian package from the > current 2.9 branch. > > Am Freitag, 1. September 2023 schrieb andy pugh : > > Is this an opportunity to get some bugfixes into the version that we > >

Re: [Emc-developers] Trajectory planner shortcomings

2023-07-04 Thread Sam Sokolik
Any movement involving the rotary axis is limited to the old trajectory planner - 1 segment look ahead.. sam On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 1:47 PM gene heskett wrote: > On 7/4/23 13:31, Marius wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have been trying to get a rotary fourth axis setup going with the help > > of

Re: [Emc-developers] 5-axis video at Tormach meet up

2023-05-01 Thread Sam Sokolik
downloading them first probably is the best solution... On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 7:15 PM gene heskett wrote: > On 5/1/23 19:37, John Allwine wrote: > > I used VLC to view them. > > > >> On May 1, 2023, at 5:02 PM, gene heskett wrote: > >> > >> On 5/1/23 17:25, John Allwine wrote: > >>> Hi

Re: [Emc-developers] April 2023 LinuxCNC meeting at Tormach headquarters

2023-04-23 Thread Sam Sokolik
Thank you tormach for letting us use your space for the get together! It was so good to see old friends and meet new! On Fri, Apr 21, 2023, 2:06 PM Daniel Rogge wrote: > If people want to set things up we have plenty of AV equipment (including > some top notch microphones) that could be used

Re: [Emc-developers] April 2023 LinuxCNC meeting at Tormach headquarters

2023-04-21 Thread Sam Sokolik
andy - asked here at work and they don't have any vfd's that have modbus. I will look at the shop - but I don't think we have anything that new. sam On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 9:10 AM John Thornton wrote: > On the linuxcnc-devel channel rene-dev5 said 9-10 yesterday > > JT > > On 4/21/2023 8:14

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] April 2023 LinuxCNC meeting at Tormach headquarters

2023-03-17 Thread Sam Sokolik
I will be there. On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 7:08 AM andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 11:41, Steffen Möller > wrote: > > > > > I just checked the travel time and am a bit surprised about this being > > minimum 15 hours one-way, more like a median 21 h. > > > That's much longer than I

Re: [Emc-developers] Reminder: It's Today! (January 2023 Online Meeting)

2023-01-20 Thread Sam Sokolik
Jon had reached out to me to ask if I could do a fest. (I am a 2 hours from tormach) I would love to and so would my dad.. But dad is fighting a big fight currently and we just don't have the extra time to get organized to have a fest. This has always been the plan - to open the shop up for a

Re: [Emc-developers] Backplot MAX_POINTS

2022-12-08 Thread Sam Sokolik
Iirc it was just to make the preview more responsive... On Thu, Dec 8, 2022, 8:16 PM Greg C wrote: > Good evening all, > > Recently on the forum turbostew brought up an issue that I've noticed in > the past (in PathPilot) where on large cut files, the backplot starts to > turn back to white at

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC 2.8.2 Debian 10 Buster PREEMPT-RT ISO can't install Grub

2022-10-01 Thread Sam Sokolik
I have had issues installing debian from the boot menu.. but so far - the installer when you boot into the live has worked every time. On Sat, Oct 1, 2022, 1:06 PM wrote: > I just installed from the 2.8.4 ISO in a virtual machine > (virtual box) with a network card active, but no connected >

Re: [Emc-developers] un-wanted pauses

2022-09-20 Thread Sam Sokolik
or a rodent... On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 7:55 PM Sam Sokolik wrote: > P pauses a program... Sounds like keyboard noise.. > > sam > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 7:36 PM gene heskett wrote: > >> On 9/20/22 18:03, andy pugh wrote: >> > On Fri, 16 Sept 2022

Re: [Emc-developers] un-wanted pauses

2022-09-20 Thread Sam Sokolik
P pauses a program... Sounds like keyboard noise.. sam On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 7:36 PM gene heskett wrote: > On 9/20/22 18:03, andy pugh wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Sept 2022 at 10:46, gene heskett > wrote: > > > > I have my 6040 running a long time prpgram, and twice now I've gone out > >> to

Re: [Emc-developers] PCIe EPP parport issues

2022-09-07 Thread Sam Sokolik
one interesting thing... If you crash out of 2.9 - the installed 2.8 won't start until you re-launch and exit 2.9.. (no - linuxcnc is already running - do you want to exit?) I will get the error that comes up when you try to launch 2.8... sam On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 4:43 PM andy pugh wrote:

Re: [Emc-developers] BIG Quirk in Axis??

2022-07-30 Thread Sam Sokolik
G20/21 issue? On Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 8:52 PM Jon Elson wrote: > I have been setting up an R2E3 mill using the 2.8.2 > distribution from a couple weeks ago. > > I now have 2 servo amps running and tuned. Now I tried to > run a stripped-down axis.ngc program, but get no motion! > Then, I tried

Re: [Emc-developers] LXRT Realtime (RTAI uspace) and hm2_eth

2022-07-09 Thread Sam Sokolik
Yah. Iirc - the initial realtime that worked with Ethernet was xenomai... (I used it with the help of Peter and Micheal h? ). Then rt-prempt was integrated by Jeff (I think). I have no clue if xenomai even works either. On Sat, Jul 9, 2022, 9:53 AM andy pugh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at

Re: [Emc-developers] curious about the ethernet protocol

2022-04-20 Thread Sam Sokolik
Linuxcnc doesn't care where you close the feedback loop (linuxcnc always closes the feedback loop). Simple step/direction closes the loop between the step-gen and linuxcnc. sam On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:57 PM Torsten Curdt via Emc-developers < emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >

Re: [Emc-developers] curious about the ethernet protocol

2022-04-17 Thread Sam Sokolik
You can do all sorts of fancy stuff - with realtime tucked comfortably in the computer... (not excluding torch height control all within linuxcnc) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nViXP9SsdWc Linuxcnc is like a large real time lego set... sam On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 8:42 PM Rod Webster wrote:

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC is in Debian!

2022-02-27 Thread Sam Sokolik
This is amazing... This will make Linuxcnc even easier to access.. Game changer? Maybe! sam On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 1:32 PM Nicklas SB Karlsson wrote: > Metoo use debian. Great! > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:36:37 -0700 > Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > > On 2/27/22 04:00, Debian FTP Masters

Re: [Emc-developers] Buildbot Asleep

2022-01-02 Thread Sam Sokolik
I don't understand why any one or thing would want to stay in 2021.. On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 6:59 PM Phill Carter wrote: > Buildbot seems to not want to leave 2021. > > > ___ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net >

Re: [Emc-developers] Processing of linuxcnc_2.9.0~pre0+git20211108.cf14c89a9-1_amd64.changes

2021-11-09 Thread Sam Sokolik
Amazing work! On Tue, Nov 9, 2021, 9:35 AM Chris Radek wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 06:31:20PM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > > > This will make it much easier for people to try out LinuxCNC, and will > > greatly increase our visibility in the CNC software world. > > > > This is an

Re: [Emc-developers] Updating linuxcnc

2021-10-05 Thread Sam Sokolik
I changed it back to <http://linuxcnc.org> deb http://linuxcnc.org stretch base 2.8-rtpreempt And update/upgrade didn't change anything.. so it worked? On Tue, Oct 5, 2021, 6:49 PM andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 at 00:08, Sam Sokolik wrote: > > > > The docs sa

[Emc-developers] Updating linuxcnc

2021-10-05 Thread Sam Sokolik
The docs say to use deb http://linuxcnc.org stretch base 2.8-rtpreempt But It only upgrades it to 2.8.1 If I use deb http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ stretch 2.8-rtpreempt deb-src http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ stretch 2.8-rtpreempt I get 2.8.2 (just editing the source file) thanks sam

Re: [Emc-developers] crazy BIOS(?) interference with EPP parallel port

2021-06-30 Thread Sam Sokolik
The hp 8300 sff have a printer port header on the motherboard... On Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 9:25 PM Bari wrote: > I used to design motherboards and write BIOS. BIOS from the major > vendors pretty much works the same way. Hardly anyone works with source > you just glue a bunch of modules together in

Re: [Emc-developers] RTAI 5.3.1 for LinuxCNC

2021-06-21 Thread Sam Sokolik
Andy - random thought.. are you using wicd? I had issues getting USB wifi to work Ended up installing network manager... On Mon, Jun 21, 2021, 4:45 PM andy pugh wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 at 21:12, andy pugh wrote: > > > The same device _does_ work with the 4.14.174-rtai kernel (from

Re: [Emc-developers] at_pid

2021-05-07 Thread Sam Sokolik
I tried it with both velocity mode and current mode loops.. didn't create a usable results... On Fri, May 7, 2021, 6:39 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 07 May 2021 18:47:21 andy pugh wrote: > > > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man9/at_pid.9.html > > > > I have just remembered that,

Re: [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-03 Thread Sam Sokolik
my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at > www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 12:39 AM Sam Sokolik wrote: > > > Initially I would just try 'and-ing' the 2 in hal or classic ladder and > run > > strait to the home input. (Not using th

Re: [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-03 Thread Sam Sokolik
er logic, to no avail. > > Phil T. > The Feral Engineer > > Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at > www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 12:15 AM Sam Sokolik wrote: > > > So your not using an actual encoder to h

Re: [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-03 Thread Sam Sokolik
So your not using an actual encoder to home but using a home switch and an 'index' pulse. Thinking out loud - in a normal homing sequence - the index would reset the encoder counts to zero. In effect you don't have that functionality. Is this steppers? Using a Stepgens of some kind? Maybe

Re: [Emc-developers] Beagle Bone / PRU support ?

2021-03-29 Thread Sam Sokolik
Isolcpus certainly does work. The best latencey I get it with 1,2,3 Sam On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, 11:52 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2021 10:46:54 Jon Elson wrote: > > > On 03/28/2021 09:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I, for comparison, I just built the latest git pull on my

[Emc-developers] Some e-offset questions.

2020-10-05 Thread Sam Sokolik
I have been playing with it for a bit now and am wondering about a few things... Could there be a e-offset error? (difference between where the axis is and the o-ffset input) Can the e-offset ratio be disabled or changed from within linuxcnc? I don't see an ini. hal pin for it. The reason is

Re: [Emc-developers] Debian 10 Install

2020-09-24 Thread Sam Sokolik
(and I mean - installing linuxcnc on top.) On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 9:26 AM Sam Sokolik wrote: > I just did a fresh install of the debian 10 livecd with xfce - worked as > expected. > > sam > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 7:58 AM andy pugh wrote: > >> On Thu, 24 Sep

Re: [Emc-developers] Debian 10 Install

2020-09-24 Thread Sam Sokolik
I just did a fresh install of the debian 10 livecd with xfce - worked as expected. sam On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 7:58 AM andy pugh wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 13:38, John wrote: > > > echo deb http://linuxcnc.org/ buster base 2.8-rtpreempt | sudo tee -a > >

Re: [Emc-developers] Wheezy install vs. editors

2020-09-18 Thread Sam Sokolik
I use mousepad all the time. No issue. On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 1:26 PM Jon Elson wrote: > One of my customers is having issues with editing hal > files. He says he is using the Wheezy iso install, and the > only editor on it is "mousepad". Never heard of that. He > reports that if he opens a

Re: [Emc-developers] Looking for Lcnc Dev's to interview on podcast for the 2.8 update

2020-09-17 Thread Sam Sokolik
Subtractive machining... On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 3:41 PM Bari wrote: > On 9/17/20 2:09 PM, Robert Murphy wrote: > > > One thing that really intrigues me is that when did maker, I really hate > that term and it’s sounds a little childish, replace hobbyist ? > > > > Composed with my Crayons > > >

Re: [Emc-developers] startup anomaly on OLD LinuxCNC

2020-05-06 Thread Sam Sokolik
I think the splash gcode sets the units to mm... So if your program doesn't change it back to inches you will get odd behavior... (I think) On Tue, May 5, 2020, 3:55 PM Jon Elson wrote: > Yes, I KNOW, this is a REALLY old version, but just thought > I'd report it. > > I'm running LinuxCNC

Re: [Emc-developers] State-synch G-code.

2020-04-09 Thread Sam Sokolik
G4? On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, 5:34 PM andy pugh wrote: > Should we invent a new G-code that functions specifically to bust the > queue? > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." >

Re: [Emc-developers] charge_pump no longer works w/o a base thread it 2.9.0-pre

2020-02-21 Thread Sam Sokolik
There is no reason why it shouldn't run in the servo thread... Master seems to work (It is running at 500hz in the servo thread) sam On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:34 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > Greeting all; > > In going thru my hal file to add a machine power control, hooked to > e-stop-out, which

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] Raspberry Pi

2019-11-03 Thread Sam Sokolik
I just tested the hal_pi_gpio component in 2.8, Using the example here https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/commit/e0dc3a0bb9e9ff4b283f52586d505f4b9bcda60d (the hal example all the way at the bottom) The only gocha for me was the hal GPIO numbering is the actual pin numbers of the RPI header

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] web site error

2019-05-05 Thread Sam Sokolik
Thanks Chris - I know how hard it is to figure this stuff out when it has been years... sam On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 4:01 PM Chris Radek wrote: > With Stephen's help I finally got access to the machine and then was > able to patch it up. There were several confounding problems due to > upgrades

Re: [Emc-developers] Simultaneous 4 axis + new TP

2019-03-13 Thread Sam Sokolik
The new to falls back to 1 segment look ahead if rotary axis motion is used. Simultaneous motion works... just not n lookahead... On Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 12:51 PM Curtis Dutton wrote: > I posted a while ago about adding software laser rastering to linuxcnc. > I'm close to getting the

Re: [Emc-developers] Singularity avoidance

2019-02-14 Thread Sam Sokolik
The motion adaptive feed pin could work.. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/motion.9.html On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 5:52 AM Thắng Lê "Singularity avoidance has been a developing topic for many years" > This topic was introduced here: >

Re: [Emc-developers] New Stuff

2018-09-18 Thread Sam Sokolik
I have lightly tested RR.. I think it is a great addition.. https://youtu.be/u9QqVx3_RgA On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 7:40 AM andy pugh wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 13:29, Rene Hopf via Emc-developers > wrote: > > > Yes, good idea. This is a good way of checking if there are any issues > with

Re: [Emc-developers] INI edit from inside gui

2017-11-02 Thread sam sokolik
There is already an example of this in the 'machine calibration' gui within axis.  It is used primarily for PID tuning.  It then allows you to save the parameters back to the ini. sam On 11/2/2017 7:42 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: I do a lot of upgrades to Chinese routers from their

Re: [Emc-developers] A tweak to Touchy?

2017-04-17 Thread sam sokolik
On the Matsuura - I found this out also (counts not resetting between launches of linuxcnc). (the encoder counters on the 7i73) I think I got around it by applying the reset pulse to the encoder counter in hal as linuxcnc booted. (I think peter had a better solution but I don't remember what

Re: [Emc-developers] G33 linear motion limits exceeded error

2017-01-27 Thread sam sokolik
quick testing - I don't get the error until I actually try to create a thread that is faster than the axis limit (for a given rpm) awesome! (and it doesn't seem to pause at the end when there is an error) Here is with the gain set to 1 (default)

Re: [Emc-developers] Torch Height Control

2017-01-24 Thread sam sokolik
why not just use the pid component that is already in linuxcnc? On 1/24/2017 7:49 AM, EBo wrote: > On Jan 24 2017 6:29 AM, andy pugh wrote: >> On 24 January 2017 at 00:06, John Thornton wrote: >>> if(enable){ >>> float min_velocity = requested_vel >>>

Re: [Emc-developers] backplot/dro contents on the pi/arm version of lcnc.

2017-01-16 Thread sam sokolik
in the 'view' menu - uncheck 'show offsets' With the coordinate offsets (tlo and such) shown - the velocity disappears. sam On 1/16/2017 9:01 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I am making some progress, and I'm hopeing the ferrite stuff will help. > > Progress enough that I want to

Re: [Emc-developers] Max velocity slider and pure rotary motion

2017-01-07 Thread sam sokolik
I love the MV slider - use it all the time. I need to know that feedrate because a lot of the time I am capping the velocity to the feed rate for testing (or just above) I don't know the solution (as of right now I don't need to cap rotary only motion) But the scaling of actual feed rate is

Re: [Emc-developers] Spindle speed signal

2016-12-14 Thread sam sokolik
oh - what - did you mention you get exact stop when it is trying to change the spindle speed? Is that why it is happening on this system? sam On 12/14/2016 05:56 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > Here is a plot with motion.spindle-speed-in > > http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/rob

Re: [Emc-developers] Spindle speed signal

2016-12-14 Thread sam sokolik
also - am I seeing an exact stop at the pull out? 2.7 doesn't seem to do that. (I am positive we want blending on pull out) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/robthreading/latest/current2.png sam On 12/14/2016 05:56 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > Here is a plot with motion.spindle-sp

Re: [Emc-developers] Spindle speed signal

2016-12-14 Thread sam sokolik
Here is a plot with motion.spindle-speed-in http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/robthreading/latest/robnewandspindlein.png sam On 12/11/2016 03:52 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > Sam, one last thing, is it possible to put the spindle-speed-in pin on a > halscope channel? I'd like to

Re: [Emc-developers] Spindle speed signal

2016-12-11 Thread sam sokolik
There is no filtering. Here is the complete config net spindle-vel encoder.0.velocity motion.spindle-speed-in http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/robthreading/latest/Emco_HalfFull_Morph.tar.gz I can scope more pins but it will have to wait a few days. sam On 12/11/2016 03:44 PM,

Re: [Emc-developers] Spindle speed signal

2016-12-11 Thread sam sokolik
Threading air.. The motion seems a lot more consistent - no funny blip the original did. run after run looked pretty much identical in halscope. http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/robthreading/latest/newthreadingfix.png motion.spindle-tracking-gain set to .5

Re: [Emc-developers] G71

2016-12-01 Thread sam sokolik
so far so good.. Great job!! http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/Screenshot-33.png sam On 11/30/2016 08:27 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 29 November 2016 at 22:01, andy pugh wrote: >> It is nearly ready for requests to attempt to break it. > I think that it now is

Re: [Emc-developers] Hardware testing for improved spindle tracking jitter (issue 164)

2016-11-26 Thread sam sokolik
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 2:03 PM Robert Ellenberg <rwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ahh, I'll take another look at the math, clearly it's not calculating the >> max RPM correctly. >> >> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:39 PM sam sokolik <sa...@empirescreen.com> >>

Re: [Emc-developers] Hardware testing for improved spindle tracking jitter (issue 164)

2016-11-26 Thread sam sokolik
is the maximum feed. Side note - this is running rt_preempt and uspace. A base thread of 50us seems to work fine with the printer port. sam On 11/25/2016 09:24 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > that is odd because the threading is done at about 16ipm - and the max > velocity of the axis is 30ipm... (y

Re: [Emc-developers] Hardware testing for improved spindle tracking jitter (issue 164)

2016-11-25 Thread sam sokolik
eration is good, though, since it settles in about 120ms, > whereas the new branch takes about 200ms. I'll run the same program in > simulation tomorrow and see if I can reproduce the effect. It may be worth > trying the same comparison in G61 (in case blending is causing it). > > Best,

Re: [Emc-developers] Hardware testing for improved spindle tracking jitter (issue 164)

2016-11-25 Thread sam sokolik
ok - I finally did some testing on the emco using this branch.. https://github.com/robEllenberg/linuxcnc-mirror/commits/feature/nominal-vel-during-sync This is a thread using this program http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/robthreading/test.ngc This is the current 2.7 behavior

Re: [Emc-developers] Distributing remaps

2016-11-14 Thread sam sokolik
My thought would be to add a config to /sim/axis/remap then people can use it as they please. sam On 11/14/2016 9:20 AM, dragon wrote: > That was exactly my plan as well. Use a sub to make it more in line with > the way that linuxCNC already does things. > > There have been a few attempts at

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2016-10-26 Thread sam sokolik
I thought Andy had a good start at this at the Wichita fest a few years ago... it is in the linuxcnc git andypugh/tooltable http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/andypugh/tooltable sam On 10/26/2016 12:26 PM, James Waples wrote: > The tool count should be

Re: [Emc-developers] NOTICE: Feature freeze pending in view of a new release

2016-06-28 Thread sam sokolik
I think the reverse run branch should get merged after the freeze. On 6/28/2016 11:08 AM, Chris Radek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:36:40AM -0400, John Kasunich wrote: >> It is only monotonically increasing if you interpret it as two integers >> separated by a dot. Humans can interpret it

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

2016-05-24 Thread sam sokolik
our over travel limits actually kill power to the drives... (same as the estop loop) sam On 5/24/2016 10:03 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > Yes with the MPG...just went out and did it to make sure. > > Jeff Johnson > john...@superiorroll.com > Superior Roll & Turning > 734-279-1831 > > -Original

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

2016-05-24 Thread sam sokolik
Wow - that is pretty.. Love the MPG's in the apron. Can't wait for a video showing them working! The K is a pain to get off of the over travel limits - but it has only happened once when I forgot to home and jogged it into the limit. The matsuura is even harder. You would have to remove

Re: [Emc-developers] axis alignment jumping

2016-05-15 Thread sam sokolik
as far as I know - the component time is in clock cycles - not us... sam On 05/15/2016 06:54 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > I've been having small jumps in position for a long time on > my Bridgeport with my PPMC boards. Couldn't quite be sure > it wasn't operator error, but it seemed to be getting

Re: [Emc-developers] More than 8 stepgen

2016-05-02 Thread sam sokolik
And to answer the question - stepgen was created before the uvw axis were added to linuxcnc. sam On 5/2/2016 7:44 AM, Len Shelton wrote: > So I am curious... what is the reason why LinuxCNC is a 9 axis machine > controller, but stepgen is limited to 8 instances? > >> Len >

Re: [Emc-developers] More than 8 stepgen

2016-05-02 Thread sam sokolik
Where are you seeing 8 stepgens? The manpage and docs say 16. On 5/2/2016 7:44 AM, Len Shelton wrote: > So I am curious... what is the reason why LinuxCNC is a 9 axis machine > controller, but stepgen is limited to 8 instances? > >> Len >

Re: [Emc-developers] More than 8 stepgen

2016-05-02 Thread sam sokolik
I think (if my git foo is strong) JT increased it to 16 in 2013 http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=commit;h=61ebd8221eedad3d22b9e679c7857574b10c57d4 sam On 5/2/2016 7:44 AM, Len Shelton wrote: > So I am curious... what is the reason why LinuxCNC is a 9 axis machine > controller,

Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run

2015-09-09 Thread sam sokolik
And to show more of robs awesomeness - Jeff said I should try reversing through a tool change.. It stops reversing once it backs up to the tool change location... sam On 9/8/2015 7:51 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > Hi Kenneth, > > There's no fundamental limitation here, it's just a matter of

Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run

2015-09-08 Thread sam sokolik
That's not much in a machine with a gigabyte or more. > > (Written by a man who owned a computer with 16K of memory -- although he > expanded it to 48K.) > > Regards, > > Ken > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:53 PM, sam sokolik <sa...@empirescreen.com> wrote: > >> Rob

Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run

2015-09-07 Thread sam sokolik
-run-2.7-rebase Did I mention that rob is a genius? Pretty darn cool. sam On 04/09/2015 06:32 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > The latest pushes you did work a lot better. I do see movement when > switching from reverse to forward in some situations that i have not > figured out. Seem mo

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving backlash comp to HAL module

2015-07-27 Thread sam sokolik
I also use hal to do temp compensation using the offset component. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-CdFd2Zakc sam On 7/27/2015 9:34 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 07/26/2015 09:31 PM, Brian wrote: I have had an idea lingering in my head for quite some time now. How about moving the

Re: [Emc-developers] LCNC-V2.6.7-saga

2015-05-17 Thread sam sokolik
does it still crash without any external device powered up? (I too have been running linuxcnc up to 2.6.7 without issue) sam On 05/17/2015 04:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 17 May 2015 17:25:07 andy pugh wrote: On 17 May 2015 at 22:19, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Since I am

Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run

2015-04-09 Thread sam sokolik
Sounds good to me... I was playing with motion.tp-reverse and must not be doing it right. (like I cannot change it from hal - but I see it change when I do it from the gui) sam On 4/9/2015 11:37 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Ok, based on what everyone has said, I'm imagining the following

Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run

2015-04-09 Thread sam sokolik
not figured out the steps). I think for it to work with edm - (or other applications) there needs to be a hal pin motion.reverse-run or some such thing.. Very cool - nice work! sam On 4/8/2015 10:29 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: On Apr 8, 2015 10:06 PM, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: well

Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run

2015-04-09 Thread sam sokolik
oh - better yet... sam On 4/9/2015 6:41 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 9 April 2015 at 12:32, sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com wrote: I think for it to work with edm - (or other applications) there needs to be a hal pin motion.reverse-run or some such thing.. It has always felt to me

Re: [Emc-developers] Reverse Run

2015-04-08 Thread sam sokolik
well that is pretty darn neat.. couple issues I found -the first time you hit play after pausing and reversing the motion (while still paused) - no movement. -if you reverse run to the end of 20 segments (either manually or unpausing) you cannot get it move anymore. shift-f will not go forward

Re: [Emc-developers] G18 arcs bug in 2.7+

2015-03-10 Thread sam sokolik
Chris figured it out. Now the plane issue I was seeing was totally my fault. When I changed planes to G18 - I just switched Y to Z. Well this makes the arcs the wrong way. Changing them to G3 fixes it. Oops. I fail at the right hand rule I guess. Sorry Rob if you started looking at that..

Re: [Emc-developers] G18 arcs bug in 2.7+

2015-03-09 Thread sam sokolik
sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com: Do you have a gcode snippet that would show this? thanks sam On 3/9/2015 8:12 AM, Andrew wrote: Hello, I found this bug a couple of months back and it hasn't disappeared since. Sim-lathe slows down on G2 G3 arcs. Say, the feed is 140mm/min, it moves

Re: [Emc-developers] G18 arcs bug in 2.7+

2015-03-09 Thread sam sokolik
Do you have a gcode snippet that would show this? thanks sam On 3/9/2015 8:12 AM, Andrew wrote: Hello, I found this bug a couple of months back and it hasn't disappeared since. Sim-lathe slows down on G2 G3 arcs. Say, the feed is 140mm/min, it moves 140 on the lines and it's limited to 60

Re: [Emc-developers] G18 arcs bug in 2.7+

2015-03-09 Thread sam sokolik
this program does show difference between planes.. G17 vs g18.. G18 peaks at about 320ipm vs G17 peaks at about 540ipm.. I don't see an issue with feed override. sam On 03/09/2015 08:26 AM, sam sokolik wrote: Do you have a gcode snippet that would show this? thanks sam On 3/9/2015 8:12

Re: [Emc-developers] G18 arcs bug in 2.7+

2015-03-09 Thread sam sokolik
, sam sokolik wrote: in sim lathe - I get about 5.5ipm... which seems right - feed/rev of .14mm = 1000rpm*(.14*.03937)=5.5ipm. Feed override seems to work also... (and changing the spindle rpm changes feed) sam On 3/9/2015 8:34 AM, Andrew wrote: Sure, I attached the code. Thanks! 2015

Re: [Emc-developers] G18 arcs bug in 2.7+

2015-03-09 Thread sam sokolik
- it behaves exactly as described in my first message. So this is rather inch-mm bug somewhere. 2015-03-09 16:13 GMT+02:00 sam sokolik sa...@empirescreen.com: 100% feedrate override (I set linuxcnc to display metric.) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/Screenshot%20from%202015-03-09%2009:09

Re: [Emc-developers] New TP bugs?

2015-03-08 Thread sam sokolik
2 screen shots arc/line... G64P.1 http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/Screenshot%20from%202015-03-08%2017:49:49.png http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/Screenshot%20from%202015-03-08%2017:45:24.png sam On 03/08/2015 05:20 PM, sam sokolik wrote: is this correct? x 100mm/s

Re: [Emc-developers] New TP bugs?

2015-03-08 Thread sam sokolik
is this correct? x 100mm/s 25mm/s^2 y 100mm/s 25mm/s^2 z 100mm/s 250mm/s^2 Lines enabled 3:04 disabled 4:50 arcs enabled 3:27 disabled 5:03 there is a fix now in 2.7 - rob when you get a chance - look it over. sam On 03/08/2015 02:40 PM, Andrew wrote: Hello, Today I ran into a

Re: [Emc-developers] New TP bugs?

2015-03-08 Thread sam sokolik
I have played with mach's trajectory planner when rob started working on the new TP. I actually used linuxcnc to show what mach was doing. I used the step/dir output from mach - mesa 7i80 encoder input - linuxcnc. Not only was there acceleration constraint violations - its path following shows

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] 2.7: tp: fix for climbing behavior in rigid tapping

2015-03-03 Thread sam sokolik
that is how tapping is implemented. (it isn't seeing that the spindle is reversed - it is syncing past the starting point of the cycle - then turning the spindle off / reversing - waiting for the spindle to stop (still synced) and then moving to the initial starting point of the tapping

Re: [Emc-developers] Thoughts on pause-retract and related issues.

2014-11-26 Thread sam sokolik
I like the sound of that... would then the preview show actual tool location? sam On 11/26/2014 04:28 AM, andy pugh wrote: I have been thinking for quite a while that a set of offset pins in HAL to apply external offsets in World space would be very useful. These would be perfect for

[Emc-developers] Found a new constraint violation...

2014-10-20 Thread sam sokolik
Playing around with dxf2gcode.. (cool program btw..) It generated this file (running in master) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/SPACOUT1.ngc it violates the negative y acceleration on line 18,23,37 and so on.

Re: [Emc-developers] Found a new constraint violation...

2014-10-20 Thread sam sokolik
:37 PM, sam sokolik wrote: Playing around with dxf2gcode.. (cool program btw..) It generated this file (running in master) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/SPACOUT1.ngc it violates the negative y acceleration on line 18,23,37 and so on. http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Table and Wear offset Table

2014-10-02 Thread sam sokolik
are you saying have a g41.1 on On 10/2/2014 10:07 AM, Dave Cole wrote: On 10/2/2014 10:46 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 2 October 2014 15:40, Dave Cole linuxcncro...@gmail.com wrote: They would like to be able to adjust the jet size (think tool diameter) on the fly This is probably most easily done

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Table and Wear offset Table

2014-10-02 Thread sam sokolik
wow - didn't mean to send that.. well to finish my thought - would you put g41.1 at the begining of every part/shape? I could see that working very well. sam On 10/2/2014 10:26 AM, sam sokolik wrote: are you saying have a g41.1 on On 10/2/2014 10:07 AM, Dave Cole wrote: On 10/2/2014 10:46

Re: [Emc-developers] automatic

2014-09-25 Thread sam sokolik
for even more ideas. (this is pretty specific to the KT gearbox...) but might give ideas.. (maybe on what not to do.. ;) ) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/conversion/testing/config/gearshift16.comp I obviously am not the greatest programmer but the comp has never given us problems.

Re: [Emc-developers] HAL driver 7i80 not in master

2014-09-11 Thread sam sokolik
it is the hm2_eth.c sam On 9/11/2014 7:42 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: I am looking for the hm2_7i80.c driver code but cannot find it in master. Anybody know where to find it please? -- Want excitement? Manually

Re: [Emc-developers] Hostmot2 ethernet support now in master branch (was Re: feedback on jepler/hm2-eth-v2)

2014-08-06 Thread sam sokolik
This is master running on debian wheezy and rt_preemt. It has been up for 9 days so far. It is running the splash screen in an infinite loop. The stepgens in the 7i80 are in velocity mode and running with pid. http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/weekplus.png sam On 7/26/2014 11:18

Re: [Emc-developers] Jeff's wheezy live cd

2014-08-05 Thread sam sokolik
Can you explain the steps that brought you to needing those 2 files? (I have been running the new livecd for the past couple weeks with both the 7i80, 5i20 and rtai/rt-preempt with no issues.) sam On 8/5/2014 8:17 AM, David Armstrong wrote: Then why did i have to install the 2 files

Re: [Emc-developers] Mach4 is for sale!

2014-08-01 Thread sam sokolik
Sorry - this was supposed to be on the users list. sam On 8/1/2014 10:22 AM, sam sokolik wrote: If anyone is interested... https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mach1mach2cnc/conversations/messages/145043 http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,27747.0.html http

[Emc-developers] Mach4 is for sale!

2014-08-01 Thread sam sokolik
If anyone is interested... https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mach1mach2cnc/conversations/messages/145043 http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,27747.0.html http://www.machsupport.com/software/mach4/ sam

Re: [Emc-developers] Help me understand Ethernet motion control

2014-07-28 Thread sam sokolik
I will take a stab... The short answer is linuxcnc Ethernet motion is no different than any of the other interface card solution.. The longer (as I understand it) answer is... Remember that linuxcnc doesn't use motion devices like smoothstepper or galil. (these are buffering devices that

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

2014-07-18 Thread sam sokolik
I have been testing the Ethernet branch. (mesa 7i80) no issues what so ever. Some of the hardware I have been testing is the GIGABYTE GA-J1800N-D2H rt-preempt latency 36us http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/j1800.png GIGABYTE GA-J1900N-D3V rt-preempt latency 66us

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