Re: [Emc-users] gcode output for xfig

2007-06-15 Thread Till Harbaum / Lists
Hi, Am Donnerstag 14 Juni 2007 schrieb Paul Fox: > wow. when someone brings up a tool as arcane (these days!) as > xfig, i have to come out of lurking mode. :-) I know, that xfig is very old. But that's imho an advantage as it basically does what i want. There isn't a huge set of functionality th

Re: [Emc-users] estop writes to toolchange pin out? more testing

2007-06-15 Thread Dale
Oooops! forgot, the Machine On button also should not cause any machine motion. That is one function and only one function, to turn on the machine, NOT to cause any motion! Alfred Smart wrote: > I have done more testing and found that when I put the machine in > estop it jumps to the next lin

Re: [Emc-users] estop writes to toolchange pin out? more testing

2007-06-15 Thread Dale
Sorry to be so late in responding to this. When a machine is put in an E-stop condition (E = Emergancy) it's because there was some kind of problem or isbeing used in a normal shutdown procedure. No matter, coming out of E-stop the machine should not move anything or try to complete any functio

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

2007-06-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 15 June 2007, Jeff Epler wrote: >If it is actually being sent from the device, I'm sure the Linux kernel >is suppressing the "relative axis changed by zero counts" message to >hal_input. If the OS didn't take care to do this (something that always >makes sense with a device that is actua

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

2007-06-15 Thread Jeff Epler
If it is actually being sent from the device, I'm sure the Linux kernel is suppressing the "relative axis changed by zero counts" message to hal_input. If the OS didn't take care to do this (something that always makes sense with a device that is actually a relative axis) I'm sure it would work a

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

2007-06-15 Thread John Prentice
Jeff Comments below: - Original Message - From: "Jeff Epler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 5:48 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?] > Here at the CNC workshop I had an opportunity to plug in a device which > identifie