Re: [Emc-users] John Thornton - Mill GCode Generator metric small issue

2014-02-21 Thread John Thornton
John, Thanks for the report, I have fixed that in 1.6.04 JT On 2/20/2014 8:06 PM, John Alexander Stewart wrote: John; I do everything in metric; the Preferences-Preamble, when I change G20 to G21, and save, it does not seem to have saved next time I run the program. Still trying to run

Re: [Emc-users] Crackling motors using Beaglebone

2014-02-21 Thread Mark Tucker
So it seems that the hal configuration has to be altered and the ini,just reading the sample pico configs. All i need now is someone to integrate this into the beaglebone/xylotex db25 configs. How is the deadband figure worked out,Trial and error? On 21/02/14 05:47, Jon Elson wrote: On

Re: [Emc-users] Counterbore G code Generator

2014-02-21 Thread John Thornton
Where did you try and put mm? Change the preamble line to G21 ... for metric G code. I did fix a few things and 1.6.05 is the latest version. JT On 2/20/2014 3:02 PM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: John Does the metric units work. I tried with mm and MM but I get an error that says mill instance

Re: [Emc-users] Counterbore G code Generator

2014-02-21 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I changed the units entry in the INI file. On 2014-02-21 15:15, John Thornton wrote: Where did you try and put mm? Change the preamble line to G21 ... for metric G code. I did fix a few things and 1.6.05 is the latest version. JT On 2/20/2014 3:02 PM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: John Does

Re: [Emc-users] Counterbore G code Generator

2014-02-21 Thread John Thornton
Ah you don't change the ini file directly when you save the preferences it updates the ini file. JT On 2/21/2014 7:31 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: I changed the units entry in the INI file. On 2014-02-21 15:15, John Thornton wrote: Where did you try and put mm? Change the preamble line to

Re: [Emc-users] Counterbore G code Generator

2014-02-21 Thread Marius Liebenberg
You see I am getting used to Linux. Always expect the difficult. On 2014-02-21 15:45, John Thornton wrote: Ah you don't change the ini file directly when you save the preferences it updates the ini file. JT On 2/21/2014 7:31 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: I changed the units entry in the INI

Re: [Emc-users] Crackling motors using Beaglebone

2014-02-21 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/20/2014 11:47 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/20/2014 12:01 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Peter's solution will work. I was going to add a dead-band to the PID control internal to the HAL component that talks to the PRU, but Peter's suggestion of pushing the PID outside the PRU driver and

Re: [Emc-users] Crackling motors using Beaglebone

2014-02-21 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/21/2014 05:41 AM, Mark Tucker wrote: So it seems that the hal configuration has to be altered and the ini,just reading the sample pico configs. All i need now is someone to integrate this into the beaglebone/xylotex db25 configs. How is the deadband figure worked out,Trial and error?

Re: [Emc-users] Knee mill conversion - Z axis questions

2014-02-21 Thread dave
On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 21:26 +, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:59:08 -0500, you wrote: Hi all; may be off topic, but am wondering about converting my Centec 2B mill to CNC. X,Y axes are relatively easy; Z is difficult. Is there any real need to convert the Z axis,

Re: [Emc-users] Knee mill conversion - Z axis questions

2014-02-21 Thread Dave Cole
On 2/21/2014 12:01 PM, dave wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 21:26 +, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:59:08 -0500, you wrote: Hi all; may be off topic, but am wondering about converting my Centec 2B mill to CNC. X,Y axes are relatively easy; Z is difficult. Is there any real

Re: [Emc-users] off sub geography

2014-02-21 Thread dave
On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 20:16 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/19/2014 04:41 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Jon, Do you have a people limit? No, not really, as long as the weather is good. There are some tricky details. The road down to the cabin is quite rough, we do it in a Honda

Re: [Emc-users] Counterbore G code Generator

2014-02-21 Thread John Thornton
Let me know if you find anything else. JT On 2/21/2014 7:58 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: You see I am getting used to Linux. Always expect the difficult. On 2014-02-21 15:45, John Thornton wrote: Ah you don't change the ini file directly when you save the preferences it updates the ini file.

Re: [Emc-users] Knee mill conversion - Z axis questions

2014-02-21 Thread Andy Pugh
On 19 Feb 2014, at 22:40, John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm. The Centec is in the basement, and I do like it, and my wife likes the retro feel. Hmmm Old iron beats new iron a lot of the time. My Harrison conversion uses custom iron castings for the motor mounts

Re: [Emc-users] Crackling motors using Beaglebone

2014-02-21 Thread peter smith
Mark What type of motors and voltage are you using, is the crackling random, or specifically after a certain type of move?? Regards Peter Smith On 21/02/14 16:55, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/21/2014 05:41 AM, Mark Tucker wrote: So it seems that the hal configuration has to be altered and the

Re: [Emc-users] Crackling motors using Beaglebone

2014-02-21 Thread peter smith
Mark What type of motors and voltage are you using, is the crackling random, or specifically after a certain type of move?? Regards Peter Smith On 21/02/14 16:55, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/21/2014 05:41 AM, Mark Tucker wrote: So it seems that the hal configuration has to be altered and the

[Emc-users] gcmc - 1.5.0

2014-02-21 Thread Bertho Stultiens
Hi All, A new version 1.5.0 of gcmc has been released. There have been quite a few changes on the syntax and semantic level, as well as additional built-in functions for various things. An important semantic change is how add/subtract (+ and -) handles undef values. A second set of operators +|

Re: [Emc-users] Knee mill conversion - Z axis questions

2014-02-21 Thread John Alexander Stewart
The link worked just fine, Andy! Thank you - John. Old iron beats new iron a lot of the time. My Harrison conversion uses custom iron castings for the motor mounts etc. I went down the path of how would Harrison have made a CNC mill. This link might work. (Hard to do on the phone)

Re: [Emc-users] Canned cycle relative motion weirdness

2014-02-21 Thread Greg Bentzinger
Yeah - I did some digging and that whole L word in a fixed cycle dates back to the original NIST RS-274D-NGC. IMHO - Its a dinosaur that should have died out. I consider it an accident waiting to be activated by the user. One of the most powerful reasons to switch to LCNC is the faster