Re: [Emc-users] Is there an open source program similar to Vericut?

2013-12-05 Thread Dirk
On 04-Dec-13 8:22 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: On 12/4/2013 6:53 AM, bigengineer wrote: Hi, I am interested in this too. I have been silent here for a long time, (and was never really active either). But this is something where I might, semi-intelligently, help. :-) Long ago I tried what

Re: [Emc-users] Is there an open source program similar to Vericut?

2013-12-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 December 2013 10:40, Dirk bigengin...@gmail.com wrote: But showing and moving machine and vises is a minor thing compared to material removal I think. Although I don't think it is trivial. I wonder if a voxel-based approach is simpler, but it rather depends on the required precision. If

Re: [Emc-users] Is there an open source program similar to Vericut?

2013-12-05 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 12/05/2013 11:52 AM, andy pugh wrote: But showing and moving machine and vises is a minor thing compared to material removal I think. Although I don't think it is trivial. I wonder if a voxel-based approach is simpler, but it rather depends on the required precision. If 1mm voxels on a

Re: [Emc-users] Is there an open source program similar to Vericut?

2013-12-05 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 12/05/2013 12:05 PM, Bertho Stultiens wrote: The voxel approach is a valid one. You can reduce the data-set size by merging voxels in a plane and volume. There are tree-algorithms to handle such cases and there is an advantage that you only need to split, never merge. However, using trees

Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2013-12-05 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Well I tried like Andy said increasing the ferror and I can work a lot better. Also my acceleration was too much so I decreased it and now I have a error of 0.2 mm without fine tunning and with the motor moving air for now, I guess that when it's attached to the screw this will be a lot better.

Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2013-12-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 12/05/2013 07:44 AM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: Well I tried like Andy said increasing the ferror and I can work a lot better. Also my acceleration was too much so I decreased it and now I have a error of 0.2 mm without fine tunning and with the motor moving air for now, I guess that when

Re: [Emc-users] Is there an open source program similar to Vericut?

2013-12-05 Thread Anders Wallin
BTW, the splitting is usually done with the octtree approach (which was mentioned before). It can still generate a huge amount of data. If you want a block of 10 split down to 1mil (0.001), or 4 orders of magnitude, then you need a tree-depth of 14. That would be worst case 10^12 leaf nodes,

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone USB

2013-12-05 Thread Andrew
2013/12/4 Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net Please try the following. At a command prompt run: sudo aptitude install lightdm When prompted to pick a default display manager, choose lightdm instead of xdm. Once everything is installed, reboot and see if your USB issue is

Re: [Emc-users] Beaglebone USB

2013-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/05/13 13:16, Andrew wrote: First I tried the solution from the thread http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2011-10/msg01232.html No good for USB, though shutdown has been working. Now I tried lightdm, no success either. Hmm...lightdm fixes the shutdown and reboot GUI

[Emc-users] Slow G code

2013-12-05 Thread Robert Ellenberg
Hi All, As some of you know already, I'm working on an improvement to the linuxcnc trajectory planner that will allow much faster movement for engraving-type programs with lots of short segments. As part of this effort, I need test cases, both to find rare errors, and to estimate performance

Re: [Emc-users] Slow G code

2013-12-05 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 12/06/2013 01:46 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: As some of you know already, I'm working on an improvement to the linuxcnc trajectory planner that will allow much faster movement for engraving-type programs with lots of short segments. As part of this effort, I need test cases, both to find

Re: [Emc-users] Slow G code

2013-12-05 Thread Robert Ellenberg
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Bertho Stultiens ber...@vagrearg.orgwrote: You could use the wheels.gcmc example from gcmc (contributed by Alan Battersby). It creates a lot of small segments of 10..100um. You can even increase the number of segments by decreasing the angle-interval of the

Re: [Emc-users] Slow G code

2013-12-05 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 12/06/2013 02:37 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: You could use the wheels.gcmc example from gcmc (contributed by Alan Battersby). It creates a lot of small segments of 10..100um. You can even increase the number of segments by decreasing the angle-interval of the calculation (currently at 0.01

Re: [Emc-users] Slow G code

2013-12-05 Thread Robert Ellenberg
On Dec 5, 2013 8:52 PM, Bertho Stultiens ber...@vagrearg.org wrote: On 12/06/2013 02:37 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: You could use the wheels.gcmc example from gcmc (contributed by Alan Battersby). It creates a lot of small segments of 10..100um. You can even increase the number of segments

Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2013-12-05 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/05/2013 09:44 AM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: Well I tried like Andy said increasing the ferror and I can work a lot better. Also my acceleration was too much so I decreased it and now I have a error of 0.2 mm without fine tunning and with the motor moving air for now, I guess that when

Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2013-12-05 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
2013/12/5 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com There often is a difference between the feedback resolution and the motor resolution. For instance, if your motor can be moved to within a degree of position, but your encoder feed back can report in tenths of a degree. When you command a

Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2013-12-05 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
2013/12/5 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Is this a flux vector drive, or a standard VFD? A flux-vector drive can perform the computations to keep the rotor excited without moving it. A standard VFD cannot, it has to move the motor to excite the induced field in the rotor. So, it will

Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2013-12-05 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/05/2013 09:35 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: 2013/12/5 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Is this a flux vector drive, or a standard VFD? A flux-vector drive can perform the computations to keep the rotor excited without moving it. A standard VFD cannot, it has to move the motor to

Re: [Emc-users] Slow G code

2013-12-05 Thread sam sokolik
Robert has been working very hard on the new TP. Here is an example This program I found on the internet. (small line segments) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/internet.ngc 533228 line program running G64P.005 Old TP 2:37:42 New TP 1:38:49 Quite an improvement!! The

Re: [Emc-users] C2000 vfd + AC inductor motor + LinuxCNC

2013-12-05 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
I will try it with load tomorrow or next monday, because I'm finishing with the encoder coupling for the screw. I never tried the autotunning but it is supposed to tune all the motor parameters to get better torque. I hope that helps to improve the positioning. Anyway as I told before I don't need

Re: [Emc-users] Slow G code

2013-12-05 Thread Todd Zuercher
Glad to hear your making progress. Might your modifications work with more than XYZ axis. (I need to run it on 4 axis xyzw.) Would it be ok to send the sample g-code directly to your email? If so I'll try to dig up some extra slow stuff tomorrow at work. - Original Message - From:

Re: [Emc-users] Slow G code

2013-12-05 Thread Robert Ellenberg
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Todd Zuercher zuerc...@embarqmail.comwrote: Glad to hear your making progress. Might your modifications work with more than XYZ axis. (I need to run it on 4 axis xyzw.) It will be compatible with 4+ axes, but most of the improvement will be for XYZ moves