Re: [Emc-users] Do CAM instead? [Was: New dialects]

2012-02-09 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 08.02.12 07:21, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Again - shamelessly My interest is having a full free APT system on Linux. Inclusion in LinuxCNC would cause development - voila - APT on Linux. :) OK, I have some catching up to do. Is Apt on linux highly desirable because there is no other free

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-09 Thread andy pugh
On 9 February 2012 09:36, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Or perhaps there is a re-triggerable one shot module? http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/man/man9/oneshot.9.html Now this looks pretty good. I presume it could run at BASE_THREAD rate, or is it servo thread only? It is

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 09, 2012 05:34:14 AM andy pugh did opine: On 9 February 2012 09:36, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Or perhaps there is a re-triggerable one shot module? http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/man/man9/oneshot.9.html Now this looks pretty good. I presume it

[Emc-users] New dialects

2012-02-09 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 08.02.12 14:12, andy pugh wrote: On 8 February 2012 14:02, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Erik proposed this line: Arc CW X0 Y1 Centre X1 Y0.5 Feedrate 25 Is centre x1 y0,5 are incremental distance from current point or absolute coordinates of center point? Well, the

Re: [Emc-users] Do CAM instead? [Was: New dialects]

2012-02-09 Thread Stuart Stevenson
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.netwrote: On 08.02.12 07:21, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Again - shamelessly My interest is having a full free APT system on Linux. Inclusion in LinuxCNC would cause development - voila - APT on Linux. :) OK, I have some

Re: [Emc-users] Simulator based on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric

2012-02-09 Thread John Stewart
Thanks Anders, for putting your instructions together on the wiki. I got it running recently; had tried a build on a standalone machine just before Christmas, but did not complete it. Thanks also Yishin and Sven for pointing this out. John A. Stewart

Re: [Emc-users] Is the Intel D510M0 Processor still a good choice for a new EMC2 application?

2012-02-09 Thread Thomas Powderly
haha is Sears really one of the cheapest sources for D525MW? tomp -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing

Re: [Emc-users] Do CAM instead? [Was: New dialects]

2012-02-09 Thread dave
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:33:13 -0600 Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.netwrote: On 08.02.12 07:21, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Again - shamelessly My interest is having a full free APT system on Linux.

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-09 Thread Ben Jackson
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:23:47AM +0200, andy pugh wrote: It is servo-thread only as it uses floating-point. I am not entirely sure why. Aha, that's why I added the laser-thread in my HAL: A base-period thread with FP allowed. On a modern CPU it's no big deal. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD

Re: [Emc-users] Is the Intel D510M0 Processor still a good choice for a new EMC2 application?

2012-02-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:10:16 PM Thomas Powderly did opine: haha is Sears really one of the cheapest sources for D525MW? tomp Don't know. I got mine, in an overgrown shoebox case, with a 2gb single laptop style dram, power supply, 250Gb sata hard drive and a dvd writer, keyboard

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:38:04 PM Ben Jackson did opine: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:23:47AM +0200, andy pugh wrote: It is servo-thread only as it uses floating-point. I am not entirely sure why. Aha, that's why I added the laser-thread in my HAL: A base-period thread with FP

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-09 Thread Eric Keller
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I wonder if that is a hangover from when most computers needed a floating point chip installed? no, a context switch involving a FP processor was expensive time-wise, older systems couldn't afford it. Not sure if the

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 12:39 -0500, gene heskett wrote: On Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:38:04 PM Ben Jackson did opine: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:23:47AM +0200, andy pugh wrote: It is servo-thread only as it uses floating-point. I am not entirely sure why. Aha, that's why I added

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-09 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 09, 2012 01:58:53 PM Kirk Wallace did opine: On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 12:39 -0500, gene heskett wrote: On Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:38:04 PM Ben Jackson did opine: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:23:47AM +0200, andy pugh wrote: It is servo-thread only as it uses

Re: [Emc-users] Do CAM instead? [Was: New dialects]

2012-02-09 Thread Stuart Stevenson
XP and 7 I don't think they will sell anything else. They only support the other systems for people who cannot move to windows. They imply the other systems are not as developed. On Feb 9, 2012 10:39 AM, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote: On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:33:13 -0600 Stuart Stevenson

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-09 Thread Jon Elson
gene heskett wrote: On Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:38:04 PM Ben Jackson did opine: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:23:47AM +0200, andy pugh wrote: It is servo-thread only as it uses floating-point. I am not entirely sure why. Aha, that's why I added the laser-thread in my

Re: [Emc-users] Can I bounce this idea off the list?

2012-02-09 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: My understanding is, it is because RTAI (loadrt) has no floating point functions. Floating point has to be done in userland (loadusr). But now that I mention it, then why would one specify even a servo thread? I guess I don't have an understanding. No, sorry. The servo