[Emc-users] Advanced stuff - was Re: Servo tuning--plot request

2009-08-10 Thread Rob Jansen
Robert, Forget the fancy math. Mostly CAM takes care of that. Complicated sub routines aren't used a lot either. Main reasons being, the operator is likely to know nothing more than the standard Fanuc stuff and if he doesn't understand the code your asking for trouble. Commercially, time is

Re: [Emc-users] Automatic program resume. Topic of myth or legend?

2009-08-10 Thread robert
Well - I'd love to see a Fanuc 16/18/21 do as you ask. the philips control on our DSG has a crude form of it if you do a run from line. it will run through the program doing no moves setting its self up checks if tool is in right turret location loads up spindle speed gear range loads the

[Emc-users] EMC with Isel controller

2009-08-10 Thread Markus
hi everybody, i'm new in this mailing-list. i took a look at emc and it is beatifull. but i've a little problem. the machine i use has got an isel interface card 5 as controller and i did not find any information if emc works with it. so my question: can i use emc with my isel-controller or is

Re: [Emc-users] EMC with Isel controller

2009-08-10 Thread Jeff Epler
If it's not a step direction parallel port device, and it's not one of the smart I/O devices listed in our documentation, then it is not likely to have an existing hardware driver in emc2. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/#Hardware%20Drivers Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] EMC with Isel controller

2009-08-10 Thread Markus
thank you for the answer. no, the controller is not that kind of controller but the protocoll is realy simple. the communication works over the com-port and ther are only a few commands to control the machine. there is only one command to move the machine. Sending the command @0M X, SpeedX, Y,

[Emc-users] (AXIS,hide) and (AXIS,show) of one G0 move

2009-08-10 Thread Maximilian H
Hello Everybody, I am trying to suppress the drawing of the preview in AXIS of one G0 move using (AXIS,hide) and (AXIS,show). However, it does not work as I think it should ;) Does anybody have something similar working or could point me to a working example ? Excerpt of non-working gcode:

Re: [Emc-users] line limitation - and auto mode interrupt capability

2009-08-10 Thread Ted Hyde
None of the Mori Seiki, Kitamura, or Hwacheon machines I have used have this magic ability. ( I leave out Mazak- cause they are just different, and Okuma, which doesn't really break the rules, they just made up there own.) Greg - you can safely add Mazak to that list too - My very current

Re: [Emc-users] Automatic program resume. Topic of myth or legend?

2009-08-10 Thread Jon Elson
robert wrote: Well - I'd love to see a Fanuc 16/18/21 do as you ask. OK, my 1978 vintage Allen-Bradley 7320 had a feature called jog retract. You could hit cycle stop at any point in a move, press jog retract, and then move one axis only as much as you desired. Normally this might be

Re: [Emc-users] Servo tuning--plot request

2009-08-10 Thread robert
HI dale thanks for sending over the PDF iv given it a read over, nice work so fare. where is this article going? in a mag or the likes? just interested realy o, on the image to Gcode, the word your looking for is gray scale in black white image for depth perception i believe. Did you think

Re: [Emc-users] Automatic program resume. Topic of myth or legend?

2009-08-10 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:41:39 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Well - I'd love to see a Fanuc 16/18/21 do as you ask. From memory on a Mori Seiki Press feedhold - Jog... then do whatever you want, then Mem - Start - Start If yours doesn't do that, it's either broken or disabled in machine params.

Re: [Emc-users] Automatic program resume. Topic of myth or legend?

2009-08-10 Thread robert
Press feedhold - Jog... then do whatever you want, then Mem - Start - Start here we go http://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/product/new_product/2007/0702/0701_programrestart.html now i believe you still have to restart spindle, coolant on etc if u stop them. especially if u press reset which would