Re: [Emc-users] OT: Possible Retrofit candidate for someone in the heartland

2012-01-22 Thread a
Hi why retrofit bridgeport machine when one can buy cnc machine X 50 Y 26 travel CNC mill for $6.5 k those bridgeport will have similar price anyway. After one will buy used machine, beside retrofit controller with EMC2 need to learn about how to rebuild axis -learn about TURCITE and Way Lock etc,

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 22.01.2012 um 04:36 schrieb Scott Hasse: I agree there is a large and difficult problem with respect to the semantic checking if the desire is to assure that a program will run properly. I'm really aiming for a step or two below that, where the code would be parsed, any semantic checks

Re: [Emc-users] [OT] need advice from old hands

2012-01-22 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 22.01.2012 05:24, schrieb gene heskett: On Saturday, January 21, 2012 11:14:36 PM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 21.01.2012 20:41, schrieb gene heskett: Stripping it down to the holes, via, and dimensions and running pcb-gcode- setup.ulp gets me an instant can't open source/drill.h. So I'll

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-22 Thread Andrea Montefusco
On 01/22/2012 10:46 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: well, my requirements for a vehicle would be roughly like so: - industrial-strength error diagnosis and recovery, LALR(1) capable - can generate a C/C++ scanner/parser from grammer, lexical definition - the parser/scanner can be used from C/C++

Re: [Emc-users] ttt and openvoronoi py-scripts

2012-01-22 Thread Anders Wallin
I tested V-carving yesterday: http://www.anderswallin.net/2012/01/v-carving-test/ It seems to work. The order of the paths is not optimized at all, so the machine does many unnecessary rapid-traverses. There is now a PPA through which the packages are available:

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary homing.

2012-01-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 January 2012 03:51, John Stewart alex.stew...@crc.ca wrote: Does it actually have a homing switch or not? I read somewhere that the HOME_SEQUENCE=-1 told LinuxCNC (smile) not to home.  Am I correct in that assumption? Yes, but that leaves the axis unhomed, whereas you want it to home

Re: [Emc-users] pyvcp and/or Axis bug?

2012-01-22 Thread Tom Easterday
On Jan 21, 2012, at 9:27 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 22 January 2012 02:01, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: Also, if you select one of these items and change it's value using the keyboard numbers, it will not be saved unless you click an up or down arrow selection I think that the fact

Re: [Emc-users] pyvcp and/or Axis bug?

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 22.01.2012 um 15:06 schrieb Tom Easterday: re stealing focus: Pavel jumped several hoops to resolve this, a description is here: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gui/gladevcp.html#_implementation_note_key_handling_in_axis -m Thanks Andy, Do you know if Gladevcp has the same

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-22 Thread John Harris
I have followed this thread for a day or two, but I cannot understand what would be achieved by the parsing. The beauty of gcode is its simplicity, a whole block is read and decoded before any action is taken, so why is word order important? Are you looking for: Letter codes without values, or

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-22 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/22/2012 4:46 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: well, my requirements for a vehicle would be roughly like so: - industrial-strength error diagnosis and recovery, LALR(1) capable - can generate a C/C++ scanner/parser from grammer, lexical definition - the parser/scanner can be used from C/C++ or

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary homing.

2012-01-22 Thread John Stewart
Andy, Jon; I read somewhere that the HOME_SEQUENCE=-1 told LinuxCNC (smile) not to home. Am I correct in that assumption? Yes, but that leaves the axis unhomed, whereas you want it to home without moving. As Jon has said, you need to have a positive value for the homing sequence

Re: [Emc-users] pyvcp and/or Axis bug?

2012-01-22 Thread Tom Easterday
On Jan 22, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: Am 22.01.2012 um 15:06 schrieb Tom Easterday: re stealing focus: Pavel jumped several hoops to resolve this, a description is here: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gui/gladevcp.html#_implementation_note_key_handling_in_axis

Re: [Emc-users] [OT] need advice from old hands

2012-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:50:41 AM Fox Mulder did opine: On windows i just extracted all the content of pcb-gcode.zip to a directory like c:\pcb-gcode. Than set the ulp and script path (don't know if script path is really needed) in eagle to c:\pcb-gcode as first entry. That's it and it

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary homing.

2012-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 22, 2012 12:03:07 PM andy pugh did opine: On 22 January 2012 03:51, John Stewart alex.stew...@crc.ca wrote: Does it actually have a homing switch or not? I read somewhere that the HOME_SEQUENCE=-1 told LinuxCNC (smile) not to home. Am I correct in that assumption?

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-22 Thread John Prentice
Greetings Am 21.01.2012 um 18:49 schrieb John Prentice: Another oddity is that Glade will not open glade-manual.ui as it says it cannot find the gladevcp catalog.. this a different issue - glade expects the catalog file under /usr/something and the catalogs arent installed when using RIP

Re: [Emc-users] pyvcp and/or Axis bug?

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Powderly
andy cool, glad someone found the hacked version of some use, though dragging that file along with my other hacks is a constant problem with new releases tom3p -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most

Re: [Emc-users] pyvcp and/or Axis bug?

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Powderly
does this really chg the focus? #tjp added 8dec2009 because editing field didnt chg output value to halpin        self.bind('Return',self.ret_pressed)tom3p -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The

[Emc-users] [OT]Moveing pcb-gcode generated files to the milling machine=huge PIMA

2012-01-22 Thread gene heskett
Greets everybody; I am going slowly berzakers here with this bs of having different gid's on these two machines. I am at that stage where I have files ready to rename and load into emc (linuxcnc) to see what they look like in axis. But I'll be damned if I can get scp to move the files.

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Thanks andy for your recomendation. I'm reading about pico and mesa systems for driving servo motors. I'm curious about the 8i20 card. Does this card handle the PID calculations? Or the card only reads the pwm signals from the mesa I/O card?, so I need to use the HAL PID component and use it to

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 January 2012 23:20, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious about the 8i20 card. Does this card handle the PID calculations? That card does hardly any calculations at all. It takes current and phase angle information from EMC2/linuxCNC via a serial link. The

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Andy thanks for your explaination about the 8i20 card. So, this card used with LinuxCNC and hostmot2 will work well to drive a servo for accurate positioning. Right? I saw that you wrote the difference between an AC brushless and DC brushed motor if I'm not wrong. But the main doubt that I have

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 January 2012 23:56, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: Andy thanks for your explaination about the 8i20 card. So, this card used with LinuxCNC and hostmot2 will work well to drive a servo for accurate positioning. Right? It _should_. I can't say for certain that it

[Emc-users] OT - memcache

2012-01-22 Thread Spiderdab
Hi I just thiscovered python-memcache, and maybe it can be interesting to you, too. I wrote something on the forum: http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/component/kunena/?func=viewcatid=10id=17029#17029 Ciao, Davide.

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Thanks Andy again for your help. As always you're very helpful! Regards. Leonardo. El 22 de enero de 2012 21:06, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com escribió: On 22 January 2012 23:56, Leonardo Marsaglia leonardomarsagli...@gmail.com wrote: Andy thanks for your explaination about the 8i20 card.

[Emc-users] [OT]pcb-gcode, bug?

2012-01-22 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; I just ran it and had it generate a bunch of stuff I copied to the mill, and I recall seeing a checkmark in the setup menu that asked if I wanted the bottom flipped y instead of x. So I left it unchecked, expecting to see the bottom was then reversed left-right in the output,

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Possible Retrofit candidate for someone in the heartland

2012-01-22 Thread Karl Schmidt
On 01/22/2012 02:07 AM, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote: Hi why retrofit bridgeport machine when one can buy cnc machine X 50 Y 26 travel CNC mill for $6.5 k those bridgeport will have similar price anyway. After one will buy used machine, beside retrofit controller with EMC2 need to learn

[Emc-users] 2.5 run-in-place or not

2012-01-22 Thread Tom Easterday
We have been using the 2.5 branch and have made quite a few changes and have things working nicely. We want to continue forward with 2.5 and abandon 2.4.X. Should I just leave things alone, leave it in run-in-place mode, or should I rebuild it without that (or is there a way other than

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-22 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:56:32 -, you wrote: Oh dear - I am just discovering how little I understand. Your not on your own John!! EMC, or should I now say LCNC, is written and annotated by Linux gurus who unfortunately think everyone is at the same guru level as them! Beware - of these

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-22 Thread Scott Hasse
I understand where you are coming from. Word order is not important as long as you understand how things will be interpreted, and that understanding matches what actually happens. I think this discussion has ranged across several useful applications for a formalized parser, including: 1) My

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary homing.

2012-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 22, 2012 09:01:21 PM Jon Elson did opine: John Stewart wrote: Hi Andy; Does it actually have a homing switch or not? No, no homing switch. I read somewhere that the HOME_SEQUENCE=-1 told LinuxCNC (smile) not to home. Am I correct in that assumption? Or, is

Re: [Emc-users] [OT]Moveing pcb-gcode generated files to the milling machine=huge PIMA

2012-01-22 Thread Rafael Skodlar
Hi Gene, On 01/22/2012 03:18 PM, gene heskett wrote: Greets everybody; I am going slowly berzakers here with this bs of having different gid's on these two machines. Didn't we discuss this some time back? I am at that stage where I have files ready to rename and load into emc (linuxcnc)

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-22 Thread dave
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:16:40 -0600 Scott Hasse scott.ha...@gmail.com wrote: I understand where you are coming from. Word order is not important as long as you understand how things will be interpreted, and that understanding matches what actually happens. I think this discussion has ranged

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 23.01.2012 um 05:56 schrieb dave: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:16:40 -0600 Scott Hasse scott.ha...@gmail.com wrote: including things like white space. OUCH! I've become quite used to g-code with no white spaces and would hate to see that forced on user. If it is an option I have no

[Emc-users] installing 2.5 in simulation mode, not working

2012-01-22 Thread Tom Easterday
I am trying to install 2.5 under 10.04 running under Parallels on my Mac. I followed the instructions (related to installing -sim) here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Installing_EMC2#Building_emc2_simulator Everything went fine (I believe), but when I try to run linuxcnc with one

Re: [Emc-users] installing 2.5 in simulation mode, not working

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Haberler
looks like there's something badly wrong way below emc, python segfaults in libc - looks like incompatible libc and python versions: [ 1956.652151] axis[16736]: segfault at 488bd12a ip 004aacc2 sp bfe4cec8 error 6 in libc-2.11.1.so[39a000+153000] if you find a core file, try this: gdb

Re: [Emc-users] 2.5 run-in-place or not

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 23.01.2012 um 02:46 schrieb Tom Easterday: We have been using the 2.5 branch and have made quite a few changes and have things working nicely. We want to continue forward with 2.5 and abandon 2.4.X. Should I just leave things alone, leave it in run-in-place mode, or should I rebuild

Re: [Emc-users] [OT]Moveing pcb-gcode generated files to the milling machine=huge PIMA

2012-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, January 23, 2012 01:48:18 AM Rafael Skodlar did opine: Hi Gene, On 01/22/2012 03:18 PM, gene heskett wrote: Greets everybody; I am going slowly berzakers here with this bs of having different gid's on these two machines. Didn't we discuss this some time back? Yes, but

Re: [Emc-users] 2.5 run-in-place or not

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Haberler
well, since people keep tripping over this glade install path issue I looked into it and it seems it can be fixed: === Glade 3.3.3 === ... - Defined environment variables GLADE_MODULE_PATH GLADE_CATALOG_PATH, catalogs will be searched in GLADE_CATALOG_PATH and widget