Re: [Emc-users] Sprinter Easy Install tool for 3D Printer

2012-05-01 Thread Bernhard Kubicek
most likely a scam, as the previous mail already stated. However, http://daid2.mine.nu/~daid/marlin_build/ is not. It is a compile farm for the Marlin firmware, which is obviously for 3d printing, but could also be abused in combination with a suitable electronics board for cnc stuff. Daid's pr

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread Peter
Jon, It doesn't "switch" from 1/10 to full-step, it "morphs". It's not done with clocks and dividers, its done more in the analog side.  That's the difference that Mariss adds. Anyone can built a microstepping drive. There are scores of application notes and open source designs. To do what Geck

Re: [Emc-users] Sprinter Easy Install tool for 3D Printer

2012-05-01 Thread charles green
smells like spam --- On Tue, 5/1/12, rob c wrote: > From: rob c > Subject: [Emc-users] Sprinter Easy Install tool for 3D Printer > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 3:13 PM > > For anyone interested in a simple install tool for a open > source 3D printer try htt

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread Jon Elson
Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2012/5/1 John Thornton : > >> The G203v's that I use on my plasma cutter are smooth as silk and when >> you adjust the morphing pot you can really tell the difference when it >> is adjusted correctly. >> > > Hmm, I put 6 G203v drives in the welding robot, but did not

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread Jon Elson
andy pugh wrote: > On 1 May 2012 12:26, cogoman wrote: > >> I don't see how they could switch from 1/10 to full step without letting >> LinuxCNC know, and having LinuxCNC reduce the number of steps being >> sent, unless they used a clock multiplier, which would make it look like >> full step to

[Emc-users] Sprinter Easy Install tool for 3D Printer

2012-05-01 Thread rob c
For anyone interested in a simple install tool for a open source 3D printer try http://whatisacnc.com/sprinter/ It is a little unrelated to EMC but figured someone maybe interested. I have been fooling around with a program for Arduino and will post a link to the program when finished, the goal

Re: [Emc-users] axis jog increments

2012-05-01 Thread Boris Ovsyannikov
The relationship is (for ex. mm for linear, degree for rot.) (degree/360)*step of screw. > -Original Message- > From: xxzzb...@yahoo.com > Sent: Tue, 1 May 2012 04:44:22 -0700 (PDT) > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Emc-users] axis jog increments > > does anyone know w

[Emc-users] Paths to G-code

2012-05-01 Thread craig
A number of discussions have addressed software tools to generate G-code mostly as part of another discussion.. 1. Some of us are interested in starting from various mechanical CAD programs and file formats. 2. Some of us are starting from existing graphics in various formats. 3. Some of us buil

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 23:48 +1000, Peter Homann wrote: > You run it at a couple of RPS. Its the speed where you notice that its smooth > rather than silky smooth. :) > > Then adjust the pot to get it as smooth as you can. > > Cheers, > > Peter. I suspect, and I may be way off base, the 2 RPS (

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread Claude Froidevaux
I use a chinese model with DSP, and it include 3 notch finder that kill resonance frequency. (well, this is not exactly a notch finder, but it kill a mechanical resonance) even using the microstep mode, if you need a really smooth motion, you will notice that a standard stepper driver (even wit

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread Peter Homann
You run it at a couple of RPS. Its the speed where you notice that its smooth rather than silky smooth. :) Then adjust the pot to get it as smooth as you can. Cheers, Peter. On 1/05/2012 10:29 PM, John Thornton wrote: > I think it works no matter what but it is smoother if you adjust it. I > f

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread John Thornton
I think it works no matter what but it is smoother if you adjust it. I forget the RPM you run the stepper at then tune for smoothest sound and done. John On 5/1/2012 7:21 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2012/5/1 John Thornton: >> The G203v's that I use on my plasma cutter are smooth as silk and whe

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/5/1 John Thornton : > The G203v's that I use on my plasma cutter are smooth as silk and when > you adjust the morphing pot you can really tell the difference when it > is adjusted correctly. Hmm, I put 6 G203v drives in the welding robot, but did not touch that small tuning pot and the robot

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread John Thornton
The G203v's that I use on my plasma cutter are smooth as silk and when you adjust the morphing pot you can really tell the difference when it is adjusted correctly. John On 4/30/2012 4:46 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > Gene brought up mechanically damping mid-band resonance in a stepper. > I'm old s

[Emc-users] axis jog increments

2012-05-01 Thread charles green
does anyone know what the relationship between linear axis units and rotary axis units is? the matter is twofold: 1) feedrate. 2) jog increment. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all t

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread Dave
The motor sees the change electrically, the interface to LinuxCNC does not change. It is all internal to the Gecko drive. Dave On 5/1/2012 7:26 AM, cogoman wrote: > I don't see how they could switch from 1/10 to full step without letting > LinuxCNC know, and having LinuxCNC reduce the number of

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread andy pugh
On 1 May 2012 12:26, cogoman wrote: > I don't see how they could switch from 1/10 to full step without letting > LinuxCNC know, and having LinuxCNC reduce the number of steps being > sent, unless they used a clock multiplier, which would make it look like > full step to the control, I imagine it

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread cogoman
I don't see how they could switch from 1/10 to full step without letting LinuxCNC know, and having LinuxCNC reduce the number of steps being sent, unless they used a clock multiplier, which would make it look like full step to the control, and just use microstepping to smooth out the full steps

Re: [Emc-users] Electronic damping of stepper mid-band resonance, was Re: Drive Tuning

2012-05-01 Thread Peter
Hi Jon, Yes, the Geckos are one of the few drives that have electronic anti-resonace built it. The other feature that improves the performance is that they morph from 1/10 to fullstep as the stepper rpm increases. This overcomes the deficiencies of using microstepping at faster rpms, and gives