I have a Tormach and have been running Pathpilot for years. It "talks" to
several Mesa cards -- 7i92, 5i25 and 7i25(?). If no supported interface card
is found it stops with an error message.
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From: Chris Albertson
Sent: January 23, 2023 11:10 PM
To: Enhanced Machine
Several have opined that Pathpilot is just a pretty face and that is largely
correct. It does provide some nice features -- conversational machining
including drilling, thread milling, facing; probing; import of .DXF, editing
of Gcode, interface to DropBox, etc. I realize that most if not all are
Hi Sam,
Yeap, seems like the servo motor limits its acceleration within itself. The
problem is the manual doesn't help and the only thing I could find is a
smooth factor so I'll tell him to play with that value and see what
happens. It seems the drive has more settings available when you tune it
This is why I don't like smart servo drives.. lol.. You don't know how
well the drive is following the path linuxcnc is commanding..
With steppers - at least they stall.. The fact that the servo drive isn't
tripping a following error makes me think they are not setup correctly.
It should
Doesn't Pathpilot have better motion planning for more than 3 axes?
Eric Keller
Boalsburg, Pennsylania
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 9:38 AM wrote:
>
> Several have opined that Pathpilot is just a pretty face and that is largely
> correct. It does provide some nice features -- conversational machining
> From: ken.stra...@sympatico.ca [mailto:ken.stra...@sympatico.ca]
>
> Several have opined that Pathpilot is just a pretty face and that is largely
> correct. It does provide some nice features -- conversational machining
> including drilling, thread milling, facing; probing; import of .DXF,
> On 24 Jan 2023, at 15:38, ken.stra...@sympatico.ca wrote:
>
> But seriously, in my opinion a major impediment to the widescale adoption of
> LinuxCNC is the lack of an appealing and intuitive UI.
There are around 12 user interfaces. Are you saying that they are _all_
terrible?
Your problem sounds almost certainly like the maximum velocity and or
acceleration is set to something less than the maximum settings you have in
Linuxcnc. In setups like this where you have multiple control loops nested
within each other, the capability limits of each must be completely
Hi guys, hope you are all doing well.
My brother is changing some stepper motors to servos from a machine with
LCNC 2.4.3 and a mesa 5i20. The servos are D2 model from Hiwin.
The problem he's having is that, in rapid movements, after LCNC completes
its motion the servo motor keeps running until
I ran into a similar problem with my Bergerda drive the first time I used it on
the X axis. The servos must be configured in velocity mode (Hiwin Control 2).
Not position mode (Hiwin Control 1). (Page 16 of the Hiwin D2 manual).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx-kAqdwceU
Here's it working
No, I haven't tried nativecam. What does it give me that I don't have as
part of Pathpilot? Prettier UI? Cheaper than free? Trochoidal milling of
simple shapes? CAM directly from STEP files? Better online tutorials? Do I
get what I already have including: zero effort installation (part of the
Hi Rob,
No. I use AlibreCAD and the now old and discontinued AlibreCAM which is the
integrated Mecsoft VisualCAM.
As for I/O I think you might be missing the point. I've certainly had enough
people stress to me the ease of setting up their Centroid system. They are
happy with 3 axis and
On 1/24/23 11:07, Sam Sokolik wrote:
This is why I don't like smart servo drives.. lol.. You don't know how
well the drive is following the path linuxcnc is commanding..
My experience has been the opposite Sam. I have no PID's in the config
to run my Sheldon 11x54, I put a 3NM on the Z
have you tried nativecam?
easy to add to axis (when you've done it before).
centroid acorn is nice, but very expensive and has very few iOS (compared
to Mesa hardware and linuxcnc) and only 4x step and direction ports..
your choice.
On Tue, 24 Jan 2023, 18:42 John Dammeyer, wrote:
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On 1/24/23 15:10, John Dammeyer wrote:
Hi Rob,
No. I use AlibreCAD and the now old and discontinued AlibreCAM which is the
integrated Mecsoft VisualCAM.
As for I/O I think you might be missing the point. I've certainly had enough
people stress to me the ease of setting up their Centroid
> The point is I've had absolutely no luck in convincing anyone to move
from MACH3 or any other CNC 'package' to LinuxCNC. Why?
I spent a good few days trying LCNC, as I was intrigued and wanted to try
out EtherCAT, as I like the idea of a simpler setup (no step/dir
wiring/issues, less wiring,
> On 24 Jan 2023, at 18:03, Eric Keller wrote:
>
> Doesn't Pathpilot have better motion planning for more than 3 axes?
Yes, it has full 9-axis blending.
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> From: Andy Pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com]
> > On 24 Jan 2023, at 15:38, ken.stra...@sympatico.ca wrote:
> >
> > But seriously, in my opinion a major impediment to the widescale adoption of
> > LinuxCNC is the lack of an appealing and intuitive UI.
>
> There are around 12 user interfaces. Are
I'd like see the retrofit CNC package on the market (other than Linuxcnc) that
can run an 8 head/spindle gang router, with individual Z axis and VFD control
for each spindle. I'm sorry but freedom of customization comes at the cost of
complexity. If you want the freedom to be able to use/run
Interesting discussion here and totally see what people are saying.
Just thought I would put a link to my machine shop website up.
BeckCNC.co.nz
All CNC machines run linuxcnc.
And we have 4th axis units running etc. Rigid tapping. Random position
toolchanger.
Just setting up through spindle
I'm puzzled. I didn't have any of those kind of problems setting up my
Bergerda AC Servos. Other than screwing up with position mode verses velocity
mode. And you're sure the drive is set for velocity mode?
All the other parameters can be set from the front panel of the Bergerda drive
and
Hi guys again and thanks for all the answers :)
Well, indeed the problem as Todd suggested is because of the driver
limiting acceleration and velocity. I found in the manual that this can be
changed and they recommend using a value 10 times higher than what LCNC
commands. This is to avoid this
Windows software for tuning is pretty standard even on the more expensive
integrated servo systems. Teknic Clearpath needs Windows software for
configuration and tuning, as does one Chines brand that I’ve used.
> On Jan 24, 2023, at 8:50 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote:
>
> Hi guys again and
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