[Emc-users] Load cell

2007-10-20 Thread Ian Wright
Hi, Has anyone considered the possibility of including load cells / strain gauges into the control loop of EMC2? What I am considering is an idea for making something which would require me to 'drill' a number of very small holes in precise positions through synthetic sapphire sheet. I could

[Emc-users] sagcad user ?

2007-10-20 Thread Alfred Smart
hello Does anyone use sagcad and how is it? Will I need to install GCC compiler to install in Ubuntu 6.06 live install? I have acad r14 but no cam. looking for something to run in linux for EMC2 knee mill 3 axis Thanks Al __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired

Re: [Emc-users] sagcad user ?

2007-10-20 Thread James Reed
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:56:14 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] sagcad user ? hello Does anyone use sagcad and how is it? Will I need to install GCC compiler to install in Ubuntu 6.06 live install? I have

Re: [Emc-users] Threading Hickups

2007-10-20 Thread Ed
John Kasunich wrote: Kirk Wallace wrote: Thanks for the e-mail Einar. There is a cabinet on each side of the lathe. The VFD is in the right cabinet and is grounded to the cabinet. A flex conduit with a plastic outer and a metal spiral inner carries three conductors to the motor connection box

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 46

2007-10-20 Thread John Thornton
I have Bobcad 21 and agree the stick fonts are ugly. Now if I can just get them to stop calling me and wanting me to upgrade. Talk about high pressure sales. I'm interested in getting the fix if it is not something that I can d/l from bobcad. John On 19 Oct 2007 at 8:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Emc-users] Load cell

2007-10-20 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 09:40:14AM +0100, Ian Wright wrote: Hi, So, I was wondering if there might be a possibility to incorporate a load cell or strain gauges into the cutting head and provide some kind of feedback to EMC2 to regulate the downfeed on a 'peck drilling cycle' in a way

Re: [Emc-users] Threading Hickups

2007-10-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
SNIP-- Using an oscilloscope, when I probed the power supplies with the spindle running, I got about .5 Volts of ripple that had a three stair step up and down appearance. Probing the +5 Volt differential signals I got a very

Re: [Emc-users] Threading Hickups

2007-10-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Peter C. Wallace wrote: Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:36:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter C. Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [Emc-users] centering a lathe piece

2007-10-20 Thread Brian Michalk
Ahhh. If it's slightly off center, drilling the center hole will tend towards the center. Then, let the tailstock take up the slop. I know what you mean about light cuts. I've tightened up the bearings on the ... shaft that holds the chuck. When I make a heavy cut, it wants to push the

[Emc-users] DC Motor and PID

2007-10-20 Thread Kirk Wallace
I wanted to have a real motor/encoder system for my office EMC instead of using a simulated configuration. So, ruined a surplus printer to get the motor/encoder assembly, which I connected to an L298 and a +12 Volt motor supply. When I got to testing it, I had a hard time with tuning. On occasion,

Re: [Emc-users] Off Topic -- Centering a lathe piece

2007-10-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 October 2007, Brian Michalk wrote: Follow rest ... Now why didn't I think of that. :-) Well, that's the first thing that came to my ancient mind. There are more ways to skin a cat than that I expect. Thanks, guys. Gene Heskett wrote: [...] -- Cheers, Gene There are four

[Emc-users] Dual Screens

2007-10-20 Thread Kirk Wallace
After a fair amount of grief, I got dual screens working on my office EMC computer. I started by adding a PCI card and monitor to the computer. As far as I could tell, Ubuntu has no display setup wizard other than the screen resolution dialog, so after making a backup, I changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Re: [Emc-users] Threading Hickups

2007-10-20 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 09:56 -0700, Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Kirk Wallace wrote: ... snip drain. I don't know its impedance, but I suppose I could start with 200 Ohms and work my way up. The data-sheet indicates that anything lower that 90 Ohms should not be used. I'll

Re: [Emc-users] Threading Hickups

2007-10-20 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: The whole idea of the differential boards where to reduce the susceptibility of the system to noise, but the boards themselves seem to make the effect of the noise worse. What are you using for the differential driver chip? Is it totem-pole output or open-collector? I

Re: [Emc-users] Off Topic -- Centering a lathe piece

2007-10-20 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 13:17 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2007, Brian Michalk wrote: Follow rest ... Now why didn't I think of that. :-) Well, that's the first thing that came to my ancient mind. There are more ways to skin a cat than that I expect. Thanks, guys.

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 46

2007-10-20 Thread Jon Elson
John Thornton wrote: I have Bobcad 21 and agree the stick fonts are ugly. Now if I can just get them to stop calling me and wanting me to upgrade. Talk about high pressure sales. I'm interested in getting the fix if it is not something that I can d/l from bobcad. Arrgh! I can find bits

Re: [Emc-users] Threading Hickups

2007-10-20 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: My encoder disk problem cropped up again too. I am using a one inch U. S. Digital disk with a .466 inch hole and .500 inch shaft. There doesn't seem to be enough clamping area to keep the disk flat, so I have run the disk up towards the receiver end of the slot, so it

Re: [Emc-users] Off Topic -- Centering a lathe piece

2007-10-20 Thread Donald V. Lemke
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Michalk Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:41 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: [Emc-users] Off Topic -- Centering a lathe piece Is there an old trick to turning a part exactly on

Re: [Emc-users] g-code generation

2007-10-20 Thread Be Alert
Hi Gene and Pat. . Ok - I got the photo to g-code program changed so it does not need a database. Believe me it was a real job. Got it to work with in-memory SQLite. Incidental that is the same DB that liberty-basic uses. So if I can figure out how to use LB and get pixel data from a photo, I'll

Re: [Emc-users] Dual Screens

2007-10-20 Thread ben lipkowitz
You need to use the Xinerama extension to X for multiple combined displays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinerama http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/index.html - XF86Config is xorg.conf you can definitely restart X with `sudo killall X` otherwise it looks like you have the right idea. On

[Emc-users] jog speeds

2007-10-20 Thread Ian Wright
HI, What actually controls the jogging speed? - I'm sure I knew but my brain is in Estop just now When I start up Axis, the jogging speed sliders are at ridiculously high values and, if I forget to change them then the axes give up half way through a move losing my position. G0 works fine

Re: [Emc-users] jog speeds

2007-10-20 Thread Kirk Wallace
I think it's this: your.ini [TRAJ] ... DEFAULT_VELOCITY = 0.xxx ... For me it seems to set the initial jog slider setting. Although, you should not be able to jog beyond operational limits if your other settings are correct. Such as: your.ini [TRAJ] ... MAX_VELOCITY = x.xxx ... and

Re: [Emc-users] g-code generation

2007-10-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 October 2007, Be Alert wrote: Hi Gene and Pat. . Ok - I got the photo to g-code program changed so it does not need a database. Believe me it was a real job. Got it to work with in-memory SQLite. Incidental that is the same DB that liberty-basic uses. So if I can figure out how to

Re: [Emc-users] DC Motor and PID

2007-10-20 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 13:20 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: Kirk Wallace wrote: I wanted to have a real motor/encoder system for my office EMC instead ... snip You do not see this on good motors. You can check for this with either a variac- or electronically-controlled power supply that you can

Re: [Emc-users] Threading Hickups

2007-10-20 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 13:01 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: Kirk Wallace wrote: The whole idea of the differential boards where to reduce the susceptibility of the system to noise, but the boards themselves seem to make the effect of the noise worse. What are you using for the differential

Re: [Emc-users] DC Motor and PID

2007-10-20 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: I connected the motor to my lab supply and got the motor to turn very slowly at about 4.5 Volts. At the slowest speed, it would only stop if I reduced the voltage. So I guess I have a good motor and I just need to work more on the tuning. Maybe, add more P to get the

Re: [Emc-users] Threading Hickups

2007-10-20 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 13:01 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: What are you using for the differential driver chip? Is it totem-pole output or open-collector? I am using the DS26C31 http://www.national.com/ds/DS/DS26C31M.pdf Oh, my, a blast from the dark ages! I've used a 75172

Re: [Emc-users] Generating stick-font toolpaths?

2007-10-20 Thread Jon Elson
John Thornton wrote: Jon, Don't spend a lot of time trying to find this. I do it so rarely that if it is handy that would be cool if not that is ok too. Well, it appears my Bobcad font is GONE! I still have the 5 letters I redid, but the main font file seems to be gone. If I select the