Re: [Emc-users] usb sniffer

2017-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 21:44:07 TJoseph Powderly wrote: > like this? > https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB > intended for net traffci, but it doesnt know what being transferred Got it but can't make it do anything. No --help, no manpage. I want to monitor /dev/event1 which is the

[Emc-users] usb sniffer

2017-04-05 Thread TJoseph Powderly
like this? https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB intended for net traffci, but it doesnt know what being transferred tomp On 04/06/17 08:06, Gene Heskett wrote: > snip > > Now to get this sorta back on an lcnc track, do we have a wireshark > like utility for usb stuff? I am missing

Re: [Emc-users] Freeze Up Using Ubuntu 10.04?

2017-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 13:09:36 Jon Elson wrote: > On 04/05/2017 09:30 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > > I still have (had) 2 machines running Linuxcnc on Ubuntu 10.04. One > > of which seems to be locked into staying with it because of Hardware > > limitations (an ISA interface card). In the past

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 12:43:23 Mark wrote: > On 04/05/2017 10:52 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> One of these days I'll learn coffee and computers are not a good > >> mix. ;-) > >> > >> Mark > > > > Particularly if your coffee is contaminated with sugar and cream, > > black can sometimes be

Re: [Emc-users] Freeze Up Using Ubuntu 10.04?

2017-04-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Check the motherboard for capacitors with bulged or split tops or brown leakage around them on the PCB. If it has a fan duct or the CPU cooler covers some, take that off so you can inspect capacitors near the CPU. Same thing for the power supply, open it up and check its capacitors. If it's

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 09:20:27 John Kasunich wrote: > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017, at 05:02 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 5 April 2017 at 03:29, Ralph Stirling wrote: > > > I just wish there was an open source CAM tool of equal > > > sophistication for CNC work... > >

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation - hal_manualtoolchange manpage

2017-04-05 Thread Joe Hildreth
OK, I see what you mean, the change_button is an input pin of the component, when it is triggered the component will set the changed pin high. Some days, I wonder why I get out of bed. haha Sorry for all the chatter. Joe - On Apr 5, 2017, at 1:48 PM, Joe Hildreth

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation - hal_manualtoolchange manpage

2017-04-05 Thread Joe Hildreth
Sebastian, Thanks for the information and the patience with me. In the config created by stepconf on my machine I see the following in the hal file. loadusr -W hal_manualtoolchange net tool-change iocontrol.0.tool-change => hal_manualtoolchange.change net tool-changed iocontrol.0.tool-changed

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation - hal_manualtoolchange manpage

2017-04-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 04/05/2017 09:58 AM, Joe Hildreth wrote: > I have a good portion of the manpage written for this user component, > but have a question. Great! > If one wanted to use the hal_manualtoolchange.change_button as an > external button, should this input be ORed with the >

Re: [Emc-users] Freeze Up Using Ubuntu 10.04?

2017-04-05 Thread Todd Zuercher
That was the first thing, I checked when it started freezing up. Gave it a good cleaning and checked the fans. It was quite dirty, but all the fans worked and it didn't behave any better once clean. (After that was when I switched over to the Wheezy partition.) - Original Message -

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread John Thornton
I'm in the same boat as you and make machinery, I use SolidWorks but I stopped getting upgrades in 2015 due to declining business. I find that I can make parts and assemblies very fast in SW but I've not been able to do that well in Fusion 360 and I've not tried very hard as it is so different

Re: [Emc-users] Freeze Up Using Ubuntu 10.04?

2017-04-05 Thread Jon Elson
On 04/05/2017 09:30 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I still have (had) 2 machines running Linuxcnc on Ubuntu 10.04. One of which > seems to be locked into staying with it because of Hardware limitations (an > ISA interface card). In the past week one of those machines started freezing > up while

Re: [Emc-users] Freeze Up Using Ubuntu 10.04?

2017-04-05 Thread John Thornton
Check that any fans are running ok and mb and cards are clean. I've had video card fans get dirty and stop working and freeze the pc as well as cpu fans that fail and when the cpu overheats it just shuts down. JT On 4/5/2017 9:30 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I still have (had) 2 machines

Re: [Emc-users] Freeze Up Using Ubuntu 10.04?

2017-04-05 Thread Todd Zuercher
No I certainly have not ruled out a hardware problem. But the problems started after a couple of software updates. First Linuxcnc failed to start. This update took care of that. http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=commitdiff;h=317a357aa66de71deeddaa35024c47832714f29f Then this

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread Mark
On 04/05/2017 10:52 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> One of these days I'll learn coffee and computers are not a good mix. >> ;-) >> >> Mark >> > Particularly if your coffee is contaminated with sugar and cream, black > can sometimes be tolerated. :( > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Not in my coffee.

Re: [Emc-users] Hot wire foam cutter [Was: Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.]

2017-04-05 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
Hot wire knives need not have all the fancy electronics. I do a merit badge course every winter with the local council's STEM U. One of the projects I have them construct a "cooler" out of the blue construction foam insulation board using glue/tape/other means to assemble pieces of cut foam.

[Emc-users] Documentation - hal_manualtoolchange manpage

2017-04-05 Thread Joe Hildreth
I have a good portion of the manpage written for this user component, but have a question. If one wanted to use the hal_manualtoolchange.change_button as an external button, should this input be ORed with the hal_manualtoolchange.changed and then the OR output sent to iocontrol.0.tool-changed

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread Ralph Stirling
I have some assemblies in FreeCAD, which work fine, but I don't recall if I built them in FreeCAD with the Assembly2 workbench, or if I built them in Inventor, exported as STEP and imported into FreeCAD. Looking at the feature tree I think this assembly was a STEP import. FreeCAD seems to be

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread Ken Strauss
Brass shim stock 0.009 thick is readily available. > -Original Message- > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@shentel.net] > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 10:51 AM > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator. > > On

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 06:57:39 Mark wrote: > On 04/04/2017 11:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 April 2017 08:14:00 Mark wrote: > >> On 04/03/2017 02:24 PM, andy pugh wrote: > >>> On 3 April 2017 at 18:13, Gene Heskett wrote: > link crashes firefox.

Re: [Emc-users] Freeze Up Using Ubuntu 10.04?

2017-04-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 04/05/2017 08:30 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I still have (had) 2 machines running Linuxcnc on Ubuntu 10.04. One > of which seems to be locked into staying with it because of Hardware > limitations (an ISA interface card). In the past week one of those > machines started

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 05:02:37 andy pugh wrote: > On 5 April 2017 at 03:29, Ralph Stirling wrote: > > I just wish there was an open source CAM tool of equal > > sophistication for CNC work... > > Unfortunately Autodesk have rather taken the wind out of the

[Emc-users] Freeze Up Using Ubuntu 10.04?

2017-04-05 Thread Todd Zuercher
I still have (had) 2 machines running Linuxcnc on Ubuntu 10.04. One of which seems to be locked into staying with it because of Hardware limitations (an ISA interface card). In the past week one of those machines started freezing up while running Linuxcnc. Fortunately it wasn't the machine that

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 04:56:43 andy pugh wrote: > On 5 April 2017 at 03:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Interesting, using a wooden mockup. Nice > > That's the traditional way to make cast parts. A wooden pattern is > built up by hand and is used to make sand moulds. > If

Re: [Emc-users] Hot wire foam cutter [Was: Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.]

2017-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2017 03:13:07 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 04.04.17 12:29, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 April 2017 06:04:50 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > On 04.04.17 05:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Those scraps of that blueish foam have all been binned or used years > > ago.

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 April 2017 at 14:20, John Kasunich wrote: > But my work priorities have changed and I no > longer have access to Inventor. Which really drives home the problems of > these tools. The data is NOT portable. I have a couple years of part-time > hobby work that I

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread John Kasunich
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017, at 05:02 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 5 April 2017 at 03:29, Ralph Stirling > wrote: > > I just wish there was an open source CAM tool of equal sophistication > > for CNC work... > > Unfortunately Autodesk have rather taken the wind out of the

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread Mark
On 04/04/2017 11:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2017 08:14:00 Mark wrote: > >> On 04/03/2017 02:24 PM, andy pugh wrote: >>> On 3 April 2017 at 18:13, Gene Heskett wrote: link crashes firefox. Expected? >>> On your computer? Yes. >> Andy, >> >> >> You

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 April 2017 at 03:29, Ralph Stirling wrote: > I just wish there was an open source CAM tool of equal sophistication > for CNC work... Unfortunately Autodesk have rather taken the wind out of the sails of the open-source CAD / CAM projects. Fusion 360 (Windows

Re: [Emc-users] Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.

2017-04-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 April 2017 at 03:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > Interesting, using a wooden mockup. Nice That's the traditional way to make cast parts. A wooden pattern is built up by hand and is used to make sand moulds. If you know the right suppliers you can buy special products to

[Emc-users] Hot wire foam cutter [Was: Cast Bracket for FHA-25 Harmonic Actuator.]

2017-04-05 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 04.04.17 12:29, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2017 06:04:50 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > On 04.04.17 05:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > Those scraps of that blueish foam have all been binned or used years ago. > And Lowes no longer carries that same board in 2" R22 thickness. The >