Re: [Emc-users] Probably Dumb questions of the week, about inkscape

2011-12-30 Thread kqt4at5v
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote: I have installed as much inkscape as the package manager can find, and I've install the gcode-tools so the export as gcode option at least show's up. I haven't fooled with inkscape in probably 5 years, but back then I could compose dots and bars and

Re: [Emc-users] or4 ?

2011-12-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/12/30 Spiderdab 77...@tiscali.it: Hi all, i need to compare 4 inputs into hal (a limit value on each of 4 motors) and if one of them is true the output will be true. (it is a tetrapod, so only one motor-limit at a time can be true, fisically.) The fastest way in my mind is to use 3 or2

Re: [Emc-users] or4 ?

2011-12-30 Thread andy pugh
On 30 December 2011 12:47, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=emc2.git;a=blob;f=src/hal/components/or2.comp Now last line is: FUNCTION(_) { out = in0 || in1; } For or4 it should be: FUNCTION(_) { out = in0 || in1 || in2 || in3; } To install it

Re: [Emc-users] or4 ?

2011-12-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/12/30 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 30 December 2011 12:47, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=emc2.git;a=blob;f=src/hal/components/or2.comp Now last line is: FUNCTION(_) { out = in0 || in1; } For or4 it should be: FUNCTION(_) { out =

Re: [Emc-users] stepper power supply

2011-12-30 Thread Ed Nisley
On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 21:14 -0500, gene heskett wrote: pointers to the articles That was a series on transformers triac triggering, with a resistance soldering setup as the McGuffin. CC doesn't put articles online (if you know where to look, go for April/June/August 2008), but I put up some

Re: [Emc-users] or4 ?

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Haberler
use lut5: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Lut5 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/lut5.9.html $ lut5 -n4 'i0 or i1 or i2 or i3' # expression = i0 or i1 or i2 or i3 #in: i4 i3 i2 i1 i0 out weight # 0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 # 1: 0 0 0 0 1 1 0x2 # 2: 0 0 0 1 0 1

Re: [Emc-users] or4 ?

2011-12-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/12/30 Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at: use lut5: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Lut5 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/lut5.9.html $ lut5 -n4 'i0 or i1 or i2 or i3' # expression = i0 or i1 or i2 or i3 #in: i4 i3 i2 i1 i0 out weight # 0:  0  0  0  0  0  

Re: [Emc-users] Parport

2011-12-30 Thread Tomaz T .
Just to inform about this problem I had with trying to make parallel card work on PCIe bus (based on Netmos  , I gave up on it, and go with two cards on PCI bus, and it works form first second I installed them in computer case. Thees two are based on Netmos 9865.

Re: [Emc-users] Probably Dumb questions of the week, about inkscape

2011-12-30 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 30, 2011 09:56:25 AM Ben Jackson did opine: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 09:00:50PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: I haven't fooled with inkscape in probably 5 years, but back then I could compose dots and bars and place then, however with NDI what the scale was, it appeared to

Re: [Emc-users] or4 ?

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 30.12.2011 um 15:23 schrieb Viesturs Lācis: 2011/12/30 Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at: use lut5: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Lut5 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/lut5.9.html $ lut5 -n4 'i0 or i1 or i2 or i3' # expression = i0 or i1 or i2 or i3

Re: [Emc-users] Probably Dumb questions of the week, about inkscape

2011-12-30 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 30, 2011 01:31:37 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote: I have installed as much inkscape as the package manager can find, and I've install the gcode-tools so the export as gcode option at least show's up. I haven't fooled with

Re: [Emc-users] Transformer Question

2011-12-30 Thread Jon Elson
Really? 100V? Sure, 50Hz is found all over the place - but usually at 230V. Japan is a WEIRD place, for historical reasons. Half the island is 60 Hz the other half is 50 Hz. So, they have two totally separate electrical grids! This led to some of the crazy problems at the Fukushima

Re: [Emc-users] stepper power supply

2011-12-30 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 30, 2011 01:42:36 PM Ed Nisley did opine: On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 21:14 -0500, gene heskett wrote: pointers to the articles That was a series on transformers triac triggering, with a resistance soldering setup as the McGuffin. CC doesn't put articles online (if you know

Re: [Emc-users] Probably Dumb questions of the week, about inkscape

2011-12-30 Thread Edward Bernard
Just out of curiousity Gene, why are you trying to use Inkscape for PC boards when you could use Kicad, gEDA or the free version of Eagle? From: gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 12:30 PM

[Emc-users] Following error only on jog

2011-12-30 Thread Tomaz T .
Hi all, I'm in process to setup my 5 axis milling machine (gantry construction), and I managed to configure all axes, so I can home all of them and then switch to world. There I can enter some code to test all axes and they run with no problem with G0 speed (3000mm/min linear) all at the same

Re: [Emc-users] Probably Dumb questions of the week, about inkscape

2011-12-30 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 30, 2011 02:40:48 PM Edward Bernard did opine: Just out of curiousity Gene, why are you trying to use Inkscape for PC boards when you could use Kicad, gEDA or the free version of Eagle? Can you say learning curve, combined with best utility? Inkscape, with the gcodes

Re: [Emc-users] or4 ?

2011-12-30 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/12/30 Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at: Am 30.12.2011 um 15:23 schrieb Viesturs Lācis: 2011/12/30 Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at: use lut5: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Lut5 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/lut5.9.html $ lut5 -n4 'i0 or i1 or

Re: [Emc-users] Probably Dumb questions of the week, about inkscape

2011-12-30 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Or, once you have your gerber file, you can use Line Grinder (http://www.ofitselfso.com/LineGrinder/LineGrinder.php) to generate the isolation milling GCode. I haven't tried it yet - still on my todo list. Oops! LineGrinder is a windows program. But there are others such as pcb2gcode

Re: [Emc-users] Probably Dumb questions of the week, about inkscape

2011-12-30 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Just out of curiousity Gene, why are you trying to use Inkscape for PC boards when you could use Kicad, gEDA or the free version of Eagle? Can you say learning curve, combined with best utility? Inkscape, with the gcodes package installed, can export to gcode for starters, gEDA couldn't

Re: [Emc-users] stepper power supply

2011-12-30 Thread Jim Coleman
Ed, do you know how stable the voltage remains across a range of loads from open to dead short? Curbside microwaves and some heavy gauge wire sounds a whole lot cheaper than commercially produced transformers. 1KW at 13.5V +/- 1.5V could come in handy, but not handy enough for my budget to

Re: [Emc-users] or4 ?

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Haberler
see man lut5 I did look at both links You provided in Your first email. Do I understand correctly that the weight is function value for a hey look, I just decoded some jepler mystery code and found it useful, other than that I'm just an MBA ;-) Yes, it might be not only cool, but

Re: [Emc-users] stepper power supply

2011-12-30 Thread Ed Nisley
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 16:33 -0500, Jim Coleman wrote: how stable the voltage remains across a range of loads I really didn't measure that, but I think the core losses are just this side of terrible. After all, they used core saturation for output power control, so reducing losses probably wasn't

Re: [Emc-users] Probably Dumb questions of the week, about inkscape

2011-12-30 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 30, 2011 08:44:08 PM Frank Tkalcevic did opine: Just out of curiousity Gene, why are you trying to use Inkscape for PC boards when you could use Kicad, gEDA or the free version of Eagle? Can you say learning curve, combined with best utility? Inkscape, with

Re: [Emc-users] Probably Dumb questions of the week, about inkscape

2011-12-30 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 30, 2011 09:07:31 PM Frank Tkalcevic did opine: Or, once you have your gerber file, you can use Line Grinder (http://www.ofitselfso.com/LineGrinder/LineGrinder.php) to generate the isolation milling GCode. I haven't tried it yet - still on my todo list. Oops!

[Emc-users] Possible bug in G41-42 stuffs?

2011-12-30 Thread gene heskett
Greetings; Lots of editing to no avail, but I believe I have a clue to the G41-42 problem. The preset radius is for a .230 diameter circle, but if I use a .125 mill, it errors out and will not load the code. So, switching to the G41.1 Dnn.nn mode, the error is triggered even by a g41.1

Re: [Emc-users] Following error only on jog

2011-12-30 Thread Schooner
Hi See Integrator Manual Chap 4.2.8 In [TRAJ] section of ini file, set DEFAULT_VELOCITY= DEFAULT_ACCELERATION= to figures far lower than your current MAX figures (1/4 at least) and experiment from there Acceleration is the one which causes the problems normally, when moves are activated by