[Emc-users] tapping problem?

2012-01-15 Thread a
Hi i there spindle motor and motor drive that can be better used for tapping? Problem with use tap is that spindle motor can easy crash tap and after that extra charge - + equipment - to remove broke tap from hole. Every one try to get max from each tap and many times tap that "look good" crashed

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 09:20:33 PM Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp did opine: > > You know you have a problem when you first have to explain what the > > "thing" was before you can explain why what you did with the "thing" > > was so cool and still you get a blank look. > > This perfectly sums up th

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 08:55:19 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 1/15/2012 2:48 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > But I cut my computer teeth on an RCA 1802 without an assembler, I > > looked > > Gene: > > I think I had more genuine fun with the 1802 than with any other > microchip I've ever used.

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 08:51:58 PM andy pugh did opine: > On 15 January 2012 20:50, gene heskett wrote: > > Now, what do most of you folks use for converting an eagle's > > 'excellon' drill file to gcode? > > If you install Octave, you could use this that I wrote for the job: > > function

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 06:35:11 PM Fox Mulder did opine: > Am 15.01.2012 21:50, schrieb gene heskett: > > On Sunday, January 15, 2012 03:38:17 PM gene heskett did opine: > > I just found 2 bugs in visolate.jar > > > > 1. The F speeds output I had entered as 4.0ipm because my spindles max > >

Re: [Emc-users] W axis Setup

2012-01-15 Thread robert
hi yes i have two lathes with W, they are real turrets W only see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swulPjzzRQA W axis screws back plot up abit when u move the W it moves the backplot screen by that ammount.. but code runs normal so just have to take that into account the backplot will not be as co

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
> You know you have a problem when you first have to explain what the > "thing" was before you can explain why what you did with the "thing" was > so cool and still you get a blank look. This perfectly sums up the loss tech dilemma :-) Nik

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/15/2012 2:48 PM, gene heskett wrote: > But I cut my computer teeth on an RCA 1802 without an assembler, I looked Gene: I think I had more genuine fun with the 1802 than with any other microchip I've ever used. I still have one somewhere in my last-in-never-out stack. As for working without

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread andy pugh
On 15 January 2012 20:50, gene heskett wrote: > Now, what do most of you folks use for converting an eagle's 'excellon' > drill file to gcode? If you install Octave, you could use this that I wrote for the job: function Excellon2Gcode(filename) i = 1; C = []; f = fopen(filename, 'r'); o = fope

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 15.01.2012 21:50, schrieb gene heskett: > On Sunday, January 15, 2012 03:38:17 PM gene heskett did opine: > I just found 2 bugs in visolate.jar > > 1. The F speeds output I had entered as 4.0ipm because my spindles max rpms > is 2500. But it is multiplied by 60 in the gcode to F240 etc, so fe

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 03:38:17 PM gene heskett did opine: > On Sunday, January 15, 2012 02:27:41 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: > > On 1/15/2012 1:41 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > > I also play the canary in the coal mine part on the amanda list, > > > using a script that never forgets the many ./

[Emc-users] W axis Setup

2012-01-15 Thread Clint Washburn
Has anyone setup a lathe with a W axis. On my lathe the W axis is a Tailstock/drilling turret. I cannot seem to find any documentation on how to set this up in AXIS. From what I read so far I have to set up the ini file with [AXIS_0] through [AXIS_8] and leave the ones blank that would be unused

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 02:27:41 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 1/15/2012 1:41 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > I also play the canary in the coal mine part on the amanda list, using > > a script that never forgets the many ./configure options so each > > succeeding alpha release is built with all

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/15/2012 1:41 PM, gene heskett wrote: > I also play the canary in the coal mine part on the amanda list, using a > script that never forgets the many ./configure options so each succeeding > alpha release is built with all the same options each time. All of this of > course is my attempt to co

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 01:19:59 PM Fox Mulder did opine: > Am 15.01.2012 18:35, schrieb gene heskett: > > On Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:59:22 AM Fox Mulder did opine: > >> Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: > >>> Hi all; > >>> > >>> I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while tr

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 01:13:23 PM Peter Georgi did opine: > Hi Gene, > > Java is very demanding what the path of a > directory tree belongs. The > "ClassNotFoundException" is thrown when Java does > not find a class, which is usaly a problem of the > class path. Some way I usualy solve such

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:47:18 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 1/15/2012 4:31 AM, gene heskett wrote: > > It may, when I'm awake for the day, turn out to have been the clue to > > find it, so don't beat yourself up about it. I find I get lost in the > > information overload and my eyes glaze

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 15.01.2012 18:35, schrieb gene heskett: > On Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:59:22 AM Fox Mulder did opine: > >> Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: >>> Hi all; >>> >>> I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this >>> visolate.jar to do something even if it was to tell

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:59:22 AM Fox Mulder did opine: > Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: > > Hi all; > > > > I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this > > visolate.jar to do something even if it was to tell me to go away. > > > > What I was doing was lo

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Peter Georgi
Hi Gene, Java is very demanding what the path of a directory tree belongs. The "ClassNotFoundException" is thrown when Java does not find a class, which is usaly a problem of the class path. Some way I usualy solve such a problem is to set the PATH environment variable with the proper path from th

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/15/2012 4:31 AM, gene heskett wrote: > It may, when I'm awake for the day, turn out to have been the clue to > find it, so don't beat yourself up about it. I find I get lost in the > information overload and my eyes glaze over about the time I made the > last link. Getting a fresh start on

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port not working

2012-01-15 Thread Bob von Knobloch
On 15/01/12 12:34, Kim Kirwan wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Could you have a mixed-case problem? > I'll paste some lines from your files below: > >> net Xstep <= stepgen.0.step > vs. >> net xstep => parport.0.pin-03-out > > and > >> net Xdir <= stepgen.0.dir > vs. >> net xdir => parport.0.pin-02-out >

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: > Hi all; > > I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this > visolate.jar to do something even if it was to tell me to go away. > > What I was doing was looking at the strace output for the first instance of > each library etc tha

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port not working

2012-01-15 Thread Kim Kirwan
Hi Bob, Could you have a mixed-case problem? I'll paste some lines from your files below: > net Xstep <= stepgen.0.step vs. > net xstep => parport.0.pin-03-out and > net Xdir <= stepgen.0.dir vs. > net xdir => parport.0.pin-02-out Y and Z step/dir are the same. I stopped looking at that point

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port not working

2012-01-15 Thread Bob von Knobloch
On 14/01/12 18:57, Kent A. Reed wrote: > Bob: > > Maybe I'm misreading this but you seem to be saying that the parallel > port works fine with EMC2 ("ptest.hal & ptest.xml work fine"). > > If that is so, then the problem lies in your (new) configuration. You > can nail this diagnosis by loading

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 04:09:35 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: > On 14.01.12 23:25, gene heskett wrote: > > But what I now see in the strace output is a fail of a FUTEX that > > could have been there all along, whatever the heck that futex is. > > Well, t'aint so different from a mutex (whi

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 14.01.12 23:25, gene heskett wrote: > But what I now see in the strace output is a fail of a FUTEX that could > have been there all along, whatever the heck that futex is. Well, t'aint so different from a mutex (which is just a semaphore, or "mutual exclusion" flag, normally used by threads c