Re: [Emc-users] Inverse deadband - Anders Wallin

2009-01-15 Thread Anders Wallin
I'm using a 5i20 with the PWM amps. there's a schematic of approximately how it all fits together here: http://www.anderswallin.net/2008/09/servo-setup/ The HAL, ini, and pyVCP files are at the end of this post http://www.anderswallin.net/2008/04/emc2-test-run/ they may not be the very latest we

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread John Thornton
The P number is how far you want to deviate from your path to maintain speed. http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//gcode_main.html#sub:G61,-G61.1,-G64: The important part about the P number is if you use it it turns on the naive cam detector which is important when running fast with lots of

[Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Jorge Lourenço Jr .
Tom, bravo ! Are the parallel marks inside the part made on purpose or due to the multi layer milling ? Jorge L. -Mensagem original- De: Tom [mailto:kestrel...@yahoo.com] Enviada em: quinta-feira, 15 de janeiro de 2009 03:23 Para: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Assunto: [Emc-users]

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Alex Joni
Great work. Congrats! Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: Tom kestrel...@yahoo.com To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:22 AM Subject: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...) Emc2 community, I finally produced my first part on

Re: [Emc-users] Inverse deadband - Anders Wallin - Thanks

2009-01-15 Thread Roger
Anders, Thanks. That will save me a whole lot of experimentation. Roger -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 15 January 2009, Tom wrote: Tom kestrel...@... writes: Sorry for the repeated image. That was supposed to be... http://www.foxpointdesign.com/cnc_stuff/ttclamp1-sm.jpg Tom I have to say that is absolutely beautiful work, Tom. You should be proud to display it to potential

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Dave Engvall
On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:22 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2009, Tom wrote: Tom kestrel...@... writes: Sorry for the repeated image. That was supposed to be... http://www.foxpointdesign.com/cnc_stuff/ttclamp1-sm.jpg Tom I have to say that is absolutely beautiful work, Tom.

[Emc-users] 'Radius to end of arc differs from radius to start' problem

2009-01-15 Thread Yuri
hi guys, I have this error at line 10 (g2 code) when I try to load following code into emc2. I tried to set up MM_TOLERANCE=0.01 (even tried 0.1 and 1 values) with same error. I took a look at my emc tool table and it has Zero diameter tool. Previously I tried to generate this code with 3 decimal

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Tom
Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@... writes: snip... But since I'm an old biker myself, I would never install a part like that on my bike, I have first hand seen the results of a broken one. At about 45mph. At first we thought he would be in a wheelchair the rest of his life, but he never

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Can you spell product liability insurance? I consider that to be an expensive, but necessary evil. Finite element analysis, fatigue testing, and destructive testing might also be useful. Ken Dave Engvall wrote: On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Tom wrote: Jon Elson el...@... writes: snip...

Re: [Emc-users] 'Radius to end of arc differs from radius to start' problem

2009-01-15 Thread Jeff Epler
emc 2.2.8 shows the following error when your gcode is loaded: Radius to end of arc differs from radius to start: start=(X-6.3015,Y0.2511) center=(X-6.3015,Y0.4633) end=(X-6.1515,Y0.1890) r1=0.2121 r2=0.3126 this arc is noncircular by much more than the tolerance emc2 uses for arcs.

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Tom
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Louren=E7o_Jr.?= writes: Tom, bravo ! Are the parallel marks inside the part made on purpose or due to the multi layer milling ? Jorge L. Hi Jorge, Those marks are from multi layer milling. Tom

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Tom
tomp tomp-...@... writes: snip... something like this slotted tube may work on the knee screw raise knee way up insert spacer drop knee onto spacer raise knee remove spacer you get 2 known positions from an axis w/o a readout :) (hmm or more with a set of spacers) Hi tomp, Thanks

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Tom
Kenneth Lerman kenneth.ler...@... writes: snip... Can you spell product liability insurance? I consider that to be an expensive, but necessary evil. Finite element analysis, fatigue testing, and destructive testing might also be useful. Ken Hi Ken, Those are my customer's concerns. I

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Tom
Jon Elson el...@... writes: snip... This is for a ** V8 ** bike? Is this a showpiece, or something somebody is going to ride a lot? The milling of parts like this tends to leave sharp inside corners that worsens the problem. You might be able to get a stronger part by using a

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:40:59 + (UTC), you wrote: Are the parallel marks inside the part made on purpose or due to the multi layer milling ? Jorge L. Hi Jorge, Those marks are from multi layer milling. Hi Tom - can't you remove them with a full depth finishing cut? Distinct edges like

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Tom
Dave Engvall dengv...@... writes: snip... One trick is to machine the part out of plexiglas and then heat to stress relieve. Then stress the part and view with polarized light; one can see the stress points and engineer the design to compensate from that knowledge. Hi Dave, Wow!

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Dave Engvall
On Jan 15, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Tom wrote: Dave Engvall dengv...@... writes: snip... One trick is to machine the part out of plexiglas and then heat to stress relieve. Then stress the part and view with polarized light; one can see the stress points and engineer the design to compensate

Re: [Emc-users] 'Radius to end of arc differs from radius to start' problem

2009-01-15 Thread John Thornton
Take a look at the Arc Buddy on the wiki site on the g code generators page it will show you the proper code for an arc. John On 15 Jan 2009 at 18:40, Yuri wrote: hi guys, I have this error at line 10 (g2 code) when I try to load following code into emc2. I tried to set up

[Emc-users] board election

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Cornelius
Hello all, Chris Radek has asked me to run the EMC board elections again, and it was my privilege to accept. I will be mailing ballots to each address from this address (mich...@ninthorder.com) within the next few days. Please make sure you are able to receive email from this address if you are

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Tom
Steve Blackmore st...@... writes: Hi Tom - can't you remove them with a full depth finishing cut? Distinct edges like that are stress magnets ;) Steve Blackmore Hi Steve, Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou inset at the bottom of the pocket, so the

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Tom wrote: Steve Blackmore st...@... writes: Hi Tom - can't you remove them with a full depth finishing cut? Distinct edges like that are stress magnets ;) Steve Blackmore Hi Steve, Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou inset at the bottom of the

[Emc-users] emcrsh says NAK

2009-01-15 Thread Christopher Purcell
After the recent discussion about emcrsh I gave it a try tonight. This is using the latest emc 2.2.8 on the latest Ubuntu 8.04. As the note by Eric Johnson on 11 Jan suggests the line loadusr emcrsh was put at the end of my favorite hal file and then emc2 was started with /usr/bin/emc. From

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Greg Michalski
Hi Tom - can't you remove them with a full depth finishing cut? Distinct edges like that are stress magnets ;) Steve Blackmore Hi Steve, Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou inset at the bottom of the pocket, so the walls are that much thicker down

Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 15 January 2009, Tom wrote: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@... writes: snip... But since I'm an old biker myself, I would never install a part like that on my bike, I have first hand seen the results of a broken one. At about 45mph. At first we thought he would be in a wheelchair the

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem

2009-01-15 Thread Donnie Timmons
SebFstian I put this in the hal file the only thing different is it now pulses the output when EMC starts up but I still can not control it. Right now I'm only looking at the brake output. I'm sure that once I get the brake working the other will be the same problem. # Connect spindle brake

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:44:48PM -0500, Greg Michalski wrote: I saw the mention of EMC2 2.3...at the risk of getting the whole list drooling on keyboards and causing mass crashing of emc-users list member's computers, is 2.3 expected within the next ~3 months or so? I think this plan still

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-15 Thread Jon Elson
Tom wrote: Hi Steve, Those are tapered walls. The contours for those pockets are about 50 thou inset at the bottom of the pocket, so the walls are that much thicker down there. It might be worth investigating using a 3/8 endmill with a 1/16 radius end. That would give some gradation to each

[Emc-users] joint 1 on limit switch error

2009-01-15 Thread Mike Merrett
Hi: Does anyone know why I am getting this error ? Joint 1 on Limit Switch Error it is happening more and more often on my mill -- it is using the sherline driver box on a sherline mill. I have tried raising the ferror, the min_ferror, the base_period, the servo_period, the

Re: [Emc-users] joint 1 on limit switch error

2009-01-15 Thread tomp
Mike the error is about a sensed input, not tuning, not thread timing, dont mess with your tuning parameters can you resurrect your original hal file to see if the error goes away? ( or mosty goes away, it sounds like the limit is still enforced and the switch has a bad connection) regards

Re: [Emc-users] joint 1 on limit switch error

2009-01-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 January 2009, Mike Merrett wrote: Hi: Does anyone know why I am getting this error ? Joint 1 on Limit Switch Error it is happening more and more often on my mill -- it is using the sherline driver box on a sherline mill. I have tried raising the ferror, the min_ferror, the