clap, clap, clap . . . . . .
I second the motion.
If and when I have some free time I might knock up a quick flyer based on
these notions.
Obviously for others to add on to.
We will need some real clean shiny pictures though. Close-ups work very
well.
Are there volunteers?
j.
On Sat, Mar
2012/3/17 Jack Coats j...@coats.org:
What companies seem to want to purchase is not 'software' and
'hardware'. They want solutions.
Yes, exactly!
Unfortunately my clients tend to ask, what kind of solution they are
paying for and what am I going to implement and then it would be nice
to show
if possible, i would like a complete list of cost insensitive customers.
--- On Sat, 3/17/12, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Marketing LinuxCNC, was Re: Trajectory planning and
other topics from a
2012/3/17 charles green xxzzb...@yahoo.com:
if possible, i would like a complete list of cost insensitive customers.
:)))
What I meant is the top priority of the customer - if cost is the
one and only criterion or maybe some other things are considered
equally or even more important...
On 3/16/2012 10:31 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Gentlemen,
Just how do you 'market' a free item/product? The free LinuxCNC software
is not even a loss leader. The whole thing is free - all the time - even
the advice - even the help.
Just asking.
thanks
Stuart
Stuart,
Marketing is
Gentlemen,
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Mark Wendt (Contractor)
mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil wrote:
On 3/16/2012 10:31 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Gentlemen,
Just how do you 'market' a free item/product? The free LinuxCNC
software
is not even a loss leader. The whole thing is free -
Thanks all for the input. I don't think I'm presenting the problem quite
right, so I'll try to provide more detail, but for those not interested in
that the specific technical problem I am hoping to solve is that I have
configured a software encoder that does not seem to handle frequencies
above
As a relative LinuxCNC newbie, I can say that a more clear presentation of
the capabilities of the system would have made it less daunting to choose
LinuxCNC. As a hobby CNC user, I had been exposed to probably 20
half-baked open source CAM tools/packages and been impressed with a total
of zero.
2012/3/10 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com:
Looks like at least 2 problems, one is that the firmware and driver are
different versions (that firmware is fairly ancient) and the second problame
is that the config line syntax has changed (this should be fixable with man
hostmot2)
John Murphy
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Scott Hasse wrote:
snip--
It acts like it is sampling the encoder at the servo-thread frequency,
despite the update-counters function being bound to the base-thread. When
I view the configuration from
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote:
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:55:23 -0400
From: [UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
2012/3/17 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com:
No I think its some other version issue (nml has nothin to do with hm2)
Ok, what else could it be?
Last weak I downloaded the latest-at-that-moment buildbot version.
Viesturs
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote:
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:11:21 -0400
From: [UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote:
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:24:34 -0400
From: [UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
With respect to messing it up, the hal and ini file are as they are
directly generated from pncconf. The source simply does an input and I am
doing that to keep the configuration modular. I run various configurations
on this machine, and can pick and choose configurations by sourcing
different
But this is really really wasteful
Presuming my PC can handle a reasonable base-thread rate, is it really
wasteful of a scarce resource?
It seems if I want to use a real encoder counter given my configuration
I'll need a custom 5i23 firmware?
Thanks!
Scott
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:01 AM,
2012/3/17 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote:
Peter, what am I supposed to have on PC for smart-serial module to work?
The only thing I know of is inuxCNC 2.5.something. Is there anything else?
Thats it
Then I have only the buildbot version to
Thanks for your responses.
It seems I have to give LinuxCNC a closer look.
There is a low cost commercial alternative in MACH 3.
I guess you have an opinions on that system too?
I know it's based on Windows with some kind of realtime extension who
doesn't sound too good in ears.
My impression
On 3/17/2012 9:34 AM, gene heskett wrote:
Stuart,
Marketing is marketing, whether for profit or for non-profit. Even if
free, you still want to be able to give it away. Like Kent mentioned,
Case Studies and perhaps Testimonials are our Free advertising.
That's the kind of stuff that needs
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Roger Holmquist wrote:
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:28:05 +0100
From: Roger Holmquist ro...@abcnc.se
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Trajectory planning and other
2012/3/17 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com:
I will report back about my success.
So I uninstalled the buildbot version, got the source code and in
terminal executed:
sudo apt-get build-dep emc2
./autogen.sh
./configure
The ./configure script terminates with this error message (I copied
Scott-
Those are really excellent write-ups! I agree with you about the newbie first
impressions. I very nearly went with Mach when I built my first machine 2 years
ago. It wasn't until I visited Jon Elson that I saw first hand what a capable
piece of software LinuxCNC really is that I made my
On 3/17/2012 12:52 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
2012/3/17 Viesturs Lācisviesturs.la...@gmail.com:
I will report back about my success.
So I uninstalled the buildbot version, got the source code and in
terminal executed:
sudo apt-get build-dep emc2
./autogen.sh
./configure
The
2012/3/17 Mark Wendt (Contractor) mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil:
You're missing at least the Boost.Python libraries for C++ (gcc). Dunno
what else you're missing since I don't know what you have on your
machine. ;-)
I just want to test one 8i20 servo drive, no real machine to control.
Where can I
On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 17:28 +0100, Roger Holmquist wrote:
Thanks for your responses.
It seems I have to give LinuxCNC a closer look.
There is a low cost commercial alternative in MACH 3.
I guess you have an opinions on that system too?
I know it's based on Windows with some kind of realtime
2012/3/17 Michał Geszkiewicz mic...@wp.pl:
sudo apt-get install libboost-python-dev
Thanks, that worked!
./configure completed successfully
sudo make completedsuccessfully
sudo make setuid terminates with error:
viesturs@ubuntu:~/linuxcnc-dev/src$ sudo make setuid
make: Entering directory
Try use make without sudo
W dniu 17.03.2012 18:33, Viesturs Lācis pisze:
2012/3/17 Michał Geszkiewiczmic...@wp.pl:
sudo apt-get install libboost-python-dev
Thanks, that worked!
./configure completed successfully
sudo make completedsuccessfully
sudo make setuid terminates with error:
Roger Holmquist wrote:
Thanks for your responses.
It seems I have to give LinuxCNC a closer look.
There is a low cost commercial alternative in MACH 3.
I guess you have an opinions on that system too?
I know it's based on Windows with some kind of realtime extension who
doesn't sound too
2012/3/17 Michał Geszkiewicz mic...@wp.pl:
Try use make without sudo
Thanks, You are right, there is no sudo in wiki page.
I still get some errors, so I deleted the code, will download it again
and then retry.
BTW a little off-topic: the command to clone the source from git is:
git clone
If you execute 'git clean -x -d -f' in top of linuxcnc source directory,
it will reset to state after clone
regards
Michael
W dniu 17.03.2012 19:13, Viesturs Lācis pisze:
2012/3/17 Michał Geszkiewiczmic...@wp.pl:
Try use make without sudo
Thanks, You are right, there is no sudo in wiki
2012/3/17 Michał Geszkiewicz mic...@wp.pl:
If you execute 'git clean -x -d -f' in top of linuxcnc source directory,
it will reset to state after clone
Thanks, I will try to remember!
And now what?
I ran all these commands:
cd src
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install-menus
sudo make
2012/3/17 Roger Holmquist ro...@abcnc.se:
Thanks for your responses.
It seems I have to give LinuxCNC a closer look.
There is a low cost commercial alternative in MACH 3.
I guess you have an opinions on that system too?
That is pretty much provocative question :))
Here is my thoughts, why
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Installing_LinuxCNC#Running_emc2
running script is in ../scripts directory
W dniu 17.03.2012 19:51, Viesturs Lācis pisze:
2012/3/17 Michał Geszkiewiczmic...@wp.pl:
If you execute 'git clean -x -d -f' in top of linuxcnc source directory,
it will reset
2012/3/17 Michał Geszkiewicz mic...@wp.pl:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Installing_LinuxCNC#Running_emc2
running script is in ../scripts directory
Thank You!
It is working!
That is for run-in-place, but I did not specify that. Did it
automatically build with --run-in-place?
If so,
2012/3/17 Michał Geszkiewicz mic...@wp.pl:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Installing_LinuxCNC#Running_emc2
running script is in ../scripts directory
Thank You!
It is working!
That is for run-in-place, but I did not specify that. Did it
automatically build with --run-in-place?
If so,
Sorry, for the double-post, do not know, how did I do that...
2012. gada 17. marts 15:13 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com rakstīja:
Anyway, I still get this in error message:
Can not find -sec MOT -var MOT -num 1
Can not find -sec IO -var IO -num 1
Can not find -sec TASK -var
Greetings
And now what?
I ran all these commands:
cd src
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install-menus
sudo make setuid
They all completed successfully - I did not see any warning messages.
But in Applications - CNC I have 4 items - Getting started guide and
3 manuals - Hal,
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote:
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:21:33 -0400
From: [UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:
2012/3/17 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com:
I cannot see how any of those errors are eveny vaguely related to the
bitfile
I do understand that. The fact is that it works with this:
CONFIG=firmware=hm2/7i43/SVST4_4B.BIT num_encoders=3 num_pwmgens=3
num_stepgens=0
It does not work with this:
On Saturday, March 17, 2012 04:01:38 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did opine:
On 3/17/2012 9:34 AM, gene heskett wrote:
Stuart,
Marketing is marketing, whether for profit or for non-profit. Even
if free, you still want to be able to give it away. Like Kent
mentioned, Case Studies and
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote:
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:02:42 -0400
From: [UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
2012/3/17 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com:
Looks right, though it probably should have the right number of 0's or X's for
the number of sserial channels the config contains
How do I find that out? The firmware is BOSSV.BIT, the one You sent to
John Murphy a week or two ago.
what does dmesg
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Viesturs L?cis wrote:
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:29:27 -0400
From: [UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
2012/3/17 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com:
Oh OK its a ancient bit file (dmesg is much more useful)
So that means that You will send me something else, right? :))
Viesturs
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:33:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com
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emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re:
2012/3/17 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com:
Those number do not match what I have for the BOSSVSS config so that is not
a current bit file (John Murphy must have sent you an old one by mistake)
Configuration Name: HOSTMOT2
General configuration information:
Module: SSerial
There are
On 3/17/2012 4:12 PM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
In fact, my GMC fired up an hour ago for the
first time in several months, with a fresh engine in it, so hitting NAMES
might not be out of the question if they hold one this summer.
Cheers, Gene
NAMES is April 21, 22 in
gene heskett wrote:
There are quite a goodly number of folks on this list and/or IRC, that I
owe a hand cooler to, and if I ever get under the same roof, I'll see to
it no one has a smoking hand. In fact, my GMC fired up an hour ago for the
first time in several months, with a fresh
It just makes difficult for any observer to understand, what is going on
there.
If it works and You understand it - very good. But remember that if
You will ever want somebody else to understand it, then it can cause
frustration. I think that in situations like this it is best to stick
to
OK, now I think I'm starting to wrap my head around why it is not working.
Even with my software encoder sampling on the base-thread, with this line:
addf hm2_5i23.0.read servo-thread
updated I/O values were only being read from the 5i23 on the servo-thread.
A bit counter intuitive to me, but
Scott
My understanding is that the simple and most well-traveled approach for
servo systems with Mesa hardware is to use pncconf. If you have a
recommendation for a simpler or stupider solution I am certainly open to
it. Personally I have found pncconf to be invaluable and just to clarify,
On Saturday, March 17, 2012 08:13:59 PM Ron Ginger did opine:
On 3/17/2012 4:12 PM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
In fact, my GMC fired up an hour ago for the
first time in several months, with a fresh engine in it, so hitting
NAMES might not be out of the question if
Well, I made the changes to Les Newell's script you suggested, and it
worked! Sort of :)
Mind you, I'm running version 2.4.3. The first time I tried running a g-code
program, nothing happened. I found I had to stop the program, then start it
again. Then it was off and running. This seems to
Jeff,
For some reason, I was unable to get Les Newell's tool change
script to run UNLESS I named it the default name - hal_manualtoolchange.
Per your suggestion, I tried naming Les's script to
hal_manualtoolchange_new,
and then changing the reference to it in the .ini file. But when I started
Stopped down to the shop tonight to try:
addf hm2_5i23.0.read_gpio base-thread
Debug file information:
HAL: ERROR: function 'hm2_5i23.0.read_gpio' needs FP
analog-in.hal:4: addf failed
To me this implies it is not a real time capable function? I tried
creating a separate thread, but I get:
gene heskett wrote:
Thanks Ron. That is only about 5 weeks down the road, we'll have to see
about that. What part of MI is Wyandotte in?
(Very) Slightly West of Detroit.
Jon
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