[Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable

2009-10-09 Thread Евгений Александрович
Hello guys, I try to create pyVCP panel, which show X,Y and Z positions So I created xml file with lines number halpinXdisplay/halpin format+004.4f/format /number create hal file, add PYVCP and POSTGUI_HALFILE in ini file start Emc with Axis ... I can see my panel with 0.000 So I have to

Re: [Emc-users] MAXNC Open Loop Mill

2009-10-09 Thread Sven Wesley
2009/10/8 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 10:30 +0200, Sven Wesley wrote: Sounds like a very clean setup. Then it would be really easy to make an amplifier board (with opto isolation) that just enhance the signal, right? No need to by step/dir drivers then.

Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable

2009-10-09 Thread Michał Geszkiewicz
Евгений Александрович pisze: Hello guys, I try to create pyVCP panel, which show X,Y and Z positions So I created xml file with lines number halpinXdisplay/halpin format+004.4f/format /number create hal file, add PYVCP and POSTGUI_HALFILE in ini file start Emc with Axis ... I can

Re: [Emc-users] Max velocity suddenly limited to that of slowest axis EMC2-2.3.3

2009-10-09 Thread Andy Pugh
2009/10/9 Alan Condit acon...@ipns.com: I have been gone for a couple weeks, so I don't know if this has already been addressed. I haven't seen anything. I have noticed something a bit odd in that regard with 2.3.3 myself, but I haven't paid enough attention to it to investigate (I have been

Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable

2009-10-09 Thread Евгений Александрович
-Original Message- From: Micha? Geszkiewicz mic...@wp.pl To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:14:17 +0200 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable Евгений Александрович pisze: Hello guys, I try to create

Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable

2009-10-09 Thread Andy Pugh
2009/10/9 Евгений Александрович evgeni_a...@mail.ru: I did not check HALUI variables before. I have to use halui.axis.n.pos-commanded  and  halui.axis.n.pos-relative Note that you need HALUI = halui in the .ini file or you can't see those pins. If I can hijack the thread slightly, is it

Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable

2009-10-09 Thread Michał Geszkiewicz
Евгений Александрович pisze: -Original Message- From: Micha? Geszkiewicz mic...@wp.pl To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:14:17 +0200 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable Евгений Александрович pisze:

Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable

2009-10-09 Thread Alex Joni
If I can hijack the thread slightly, is it possible to write to #5nnn parameters with halcmd? I am contemplating a user-defined G-code that calls a halcmd script to read back the current relative position into parameters for the G-Code to use. (I think that writing to the parameter file

Re: [Emc-users] HAL setup of Mesa 4i65

2009-10-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace wrote: Another possibility is that theres another PCI9030 chip in the system (does the driver skip these cards?) The driver looks for boards with the Device ID of the PCI9030 (10b5:9030) and the Subsystem ID of the 5i20 (10b5:3131) or 4i65 (10b5:3132). Any 9030's lacking

Re: [Emc-users] Max velocity suddenly limited to that of slowest axis EMC2-2.3.3

2009-10-09 Thread robert
Does the max-velocity slider have any effect? as andy said i had this problem a while back slider set to 10m/min slider is a overall max velocity of the overall combined join velocity so increase it and see what happens robert

Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable

2009-10-09 Thread Andy Pugh
2009/10/9 Alex Joni alex.j...@robcon.ro: You can use M66 for that Ooh! So I can! I hadn't put the various bits together to realise that I could net the analog inputs to something other than an actual, physical, analog input (I would still like the current relative and absolute coordinates

Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable

2009-10-09 Thread Евгений Александрович
Sorry guys, what does mean M66 ? Thire is no information at http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode.html You can use M66 for that Ooh! So I can! I hadn't put the various bits together to realise that I could net the analog inputs to something other than an actual, physical, analog input (I

Re: [Emc-users] MAXNC Open Loop Mill

2009-10-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 10:03 +0200, Sven Wesley wrote: 2009/10/8 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com ... snip Does the CNC have the original drivers? If so, my setup works fairly well and was dirt cheap. If you need to replace the old drivers, I think you would be better off with a more

Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable

2009-10-09 Thread Dave Caroline
see here http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode_main.html#sec:M66: Dave Caroline -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart

Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable

2009-10-09 Thread Евгений Александрович
You can only change machine coordinates by machine moves. There is no offsets and such for machine coords. If you can describe what you're trying to do, we could find some solution for this. regards, Michael Basically it is possible to use g92 and work with EMC without problems. Only one

Re: [Emc-users] pyVCP Actual position variable

2009-10-09 Thread Евгений Александрович
Do you mean you can change value of machine coords by M66. No, sorry. I am guilty of stealing your subject line with a different but related question. I was looking for a way to transfer the current relative coordinates into a G-code program. In EMC the machine coordinates are fixed. I

Re: [Emc-users] Amp Enable Wiring logic.

2009-10-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 08 October 2009, cogoman wrote: LEDs usually have between 1.5 and 2.2 volts at 10mA depending on the color. Silicon rectifier diodes are the ones that have .6 volts across them at 10mA. | That's because of the sink arrangement. When the EMC2 output is High, | both sides of the

[Emc-users] pyVCP TABs and Internationalization (looks like a bug)

2009-10-09 Thread Евгений Александрович
Hello, I can not use Russian character in tab widget. tabs names[tab1,tab2]/names /tabs does work. but if I use Russian characters instead tab1 or tab2 system crushes in Axis UI. -- Come build with us! The

Re: [Emc-users] Max velocity suddenly limited to that of slowest axis EMC2-2.3.3

2009-10-09 Thread Alan Condit
EMC2-2.3.3 (robert) From: robert rob...@innovative-rc.com Date: October 9, 2009 4:42:10 AM PDT To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Max velocity suddenly limited to that of slowest axis EMC2-2.3.3 Reply-To: Enhanced Machine

Re: [Emc-users] Max velocity suddenly limited to that of slowest axis EMC2-2.3.3

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:34:23AM -0700, Alan Condit wrote: The Max_Velocity slider should allow me to set the 120ipm but it won't. I think you need to set [TRAJ]MAX_LINEAR_VELOCITY to whatever you want the top of the max velocity slider to be.

[Emc-users] [PATCH] fix non-ascii widget paths

2009-10-09 Thread Jeff Epler
such paths are used by non-english pyvcp files. --- On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 06:44:30PM +0400, Евгений Александрович wrote: but if I use Russian characters instead tab1 or tab2 system crushes in Axis UI. ... giving an error similar to the following: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode

Re: [Emc-users] Encoders

2009-10-09 Thread Jon Elson
Steve Blackmore wrote: The 120 Ohm are not pull-ups, they are to balance the twisted pair. More specifically to absorb the transmision line energy when it reaches the end of the cable. There is significant energy contained in the inductive/capacitive effect as the transient signal edges flow

Re: [Emc-users] Max velocity suddenly limited to that of slowest axis EMC2-2.3.3

2009-10-09 Thread Jeff Epler
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:56:05AM -0500, Chris Radek wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:34:23AM -0700, Alan Condit wrote: The Max_Velocity slider should allow me to set the 120ipm but it won't. I think you need to set [TRAJ]MAX_LINEAR_VELOCITY to whatever you want the top of the max

Re: [Emc-users] Max velocity suddenly limited to that of slowest axis EMC2-2.3.3

2009-10-09 Thread Alan Condit
On Oct 9, 2009, at 10:03 AM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: From: Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com Date: October 9, 2009 8:56:05 AM PDT To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Max velocity suddenly limited to that of

Re: [Emc-users] HAL setup of Mesa 4i65

2009-10-09 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:46:11 -0600 From: Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

[Emc-users] parport_pc and the http://linuxcnc.org/experimental/hardy/smp/ kernels

2009-10-09 Thread Haberler Michael
through the improved parport detection by Jeff Epler the parport_pc module is back in the game unfortunately parport_pc is missing from the http://linuxcnc.org/experimental/hardy/smp/ kernels, so I'm rolling my own as per hhttp://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC_With_Custom_Kernel

Re: [Emc-users] parport_pc and the http://linuxcnc.org/experimental/hardy/smp/ kernels

2009-10-09 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Michael, How recently was that updated. I just did rebuilt of smp (2.3.3) earlier this week and have just not gotten around to posting them. Regards, Eric through the improved parport detection by Jeff Epler the parport_pc module is back in the game unfortunately parport_pc is missing from

Re: [Emc-users] HAL setup of Mesa 4i65

2009-10-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: The driver looks for boards with the Device ID of the PCI9030 (10b5:9030) and the Subsystem ID of the 5i20 (10b5:3131) or 4i65 (10b5:3132). Any 9030's lacking these Subsystem IDs will be ignored by the driver. Which is

Re: [Emc-users] HAL setup of Mesa 4i65

2009-10-09 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:40:23 -0600 From: Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

[Emc-users] Spindle Control

2009-10-09 Thread Hubert Bahr
Just some thinking out loud!! Is it possible to put a rotation detector on a spindle, use it as an input to EMC and then have EMC drive some type of digital to analog converter to change the speed until it agrees with the desired setting? Based on some past discussions on the list, I

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle Control

2009-10-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 09 October 2009, Hubert Bahr wrote: Just some thinking out loud!! Is it possible to put a rotation detector on a spindle, use it as an input to EMC and then have EMC drive some type of digital to analog converter to change the speed until it agrees with the desired setting? Based on

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle Control

2009-10-09 Thread Jon Elson
Hubert Bahr wrote: I am talking about a spindle on the X3 Seig Mill. I am planning to convert the current gear drive to a two range belt drive, and since the current controller appears to use a pot to adjust the speed and a switch to change direction I believe I could use some type of