Re: [Emc-users] Jog under PAUSE / tool cnange

2010-05-15 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
I found nothing. Seem's that developers all have machines with ATC and EMC as is work's ok for them. All other user's (with coolets routers) need's to use some strange workarounds. In my case the toolcnahge.py script from this thread. Near all machines I see does have option to do tool seeting

Re: [Emc-users] Pendant documentation?

2010-05-15 Thread Chris Morley
Is EMC2.4 tested and free of problem/glitches? I had no problem with EMC 2.2.5, and it work perfect in running my machine for 14 hours continuously! 2.4 is the newest production release. So there could be some bugs but has been tested by people. There is no live cd version yet. How this

Re: [Emc-users] Homing of rotary axis

2010-05-15 Thread Viesturs Lācis
I had a thought about that and there is one BUT... I am going to use stepper motor to control the rotary axis and as far as i know there is only one way to create a closed loop system - EMC outputs PWM signal and receives encoder data and then there has to be PWM-to-step signal converter.

[Emc-users] Cannibalize Industrial Robot Servo System to Retrofit Milling Machine???

2010-05-15 Thread mtg7277
I was thinking of tearing apart an old Fanuc arcmate sr with RJ control - -or whatever available bot i can get my hands on- and using the components to re-cnc the wells index 823 mill i have the mill left factory as a tape N/C deal, but at some point in its life was stripped of motors and

Re: [Emc-users] Jog under PAUSE / tool cnange

2010-05-15 Thread Ries van Twisk
On May 15, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Slavko Kocjancic wrote: I found nothing. Seem's that developers all have machines with ATC and EMC as is work's ok for them. All other user's (with coolets routers) need's to use some strange workarounds. In my case the toolcnahge.py script from this

Re: [Emc-users] Homing of rotary axis

2010-05-15 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Viesturs Lācis wrote: I had a thought about that and there is one BUT... I am going to use stepper motor to control the rotary axis and as far as i know there is only one way to create a closed loop system - EMC outputs PWM signal and receives encoder data and then there has to be PWM-to-step

Re: [Emc-users] Homing of rotary axis

2010-05-15 Thread Andy Pugh
On 15 May 2010 11:56, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: I had a thought about that and there is one BUT... I am going to use stepper motor to control the rotary axis and as far as i know there is only one way to create a closed loop system - EMC outputs PWM signal and receives

Re: [Emc-users] Homing of rotary axis

2010-05-15 Thread Tom Easterday
On May 15, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Andy Pugh wrote: There are people running closed-loop stepper systems. Really? I keep getting told you can't do it for various reasons. One way is to use a velocity-mode stepgen and to pass the output of the PID as a velocity request. It would also be possible

Re: [Emc-users] Closed Loop Steppers (was rotary axis homing)

2010-05-15 Thread Andy Pugh
On 15 May 2010 15:02, Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: On May 15, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Andy Pugh wrote: There are people running closed-loop stepper systems. Really?  I keep getting told you can't do it for various reasons. ... I would love to see someone's configuration files who has made

Re: [Emc-users] Homing of rotary axis

2010-05-15 Thread Jon Elson
Viesturs Lācis wrote: I had a thought about that and there is one BUT... I am going to use stepper motor to control the rotary axis and as far as i know there is only one way to create a closed loop system - EMC outputs PWM signal and receives encoder data and then there has to be PWM-to-step

Re: [Emc-users] Homing of rotary axis

2010-05-15 Thread Jon Elson
Tom Easterday wrote: On May 15, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Andy Pugh wrote: There are people running closed-loop stepper systems. Really? I keep getting told you can't do it for various reasons. I would love to see someone's configuration files who has made a closed loop with

Re: [Emc-users] Cannibalize Industrial Robot Servo System to Retrofit Milling Machine???

2010-05-15 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 07:34 -0400, mtg7...@aol.com wrote: I was thinking of tearing apart an old Fanuc arcmate sr with RJ control - -or whatever available bot i can get my hands on- and using the components to re-cnc the wells index 823 mill i have If it were my mill, I would look for some

Re: [Emc-users] Jog under PAUSE / tool cnange

2010-05-15 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Sat, 15 May 2010 07:31:08 -0500, you wrote: I think there is an interest in this because I think it's a good feature. However, as the work around is fairly simple the priority for creating this feature would be low. Work around simple? Please tell. I turn nylon pretty regularly. It has a

Re: [Emc-users] Homing of rotary axis

2010-05-15 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2010/5/15 Stephen Wille Padnos spad...@sover.net: Viesturs Lācis wrote: I had a thought about that and there is one BUT... I am going to use stepper motor to control the rotary axis and as far as i know there is only one way to create a closed loop system - EMC outputs PWM signal and receives

Re: [Emc-users] Pendant documentation?

2010-05-15 Thread a
Hi i check in downloads on linuxcnc web i did not see EMC2- 2.4. is 2.4 a upgrade from 2.2.5 or total new program? is 2.4 tight to UBUNTU or i need to do compile thing? i be interesting in sample of wiring pendant. i think that if new release can make easy to wire pendant than i can try it.

[Emc-users] Axis mods

2010-05-15 Thread Andre' B
I have Emc from a Live-CD install now updated to 2.4.0 I would like to try a few modifications to Axis, dealing with the feed and spindle overrides. Want to toggle the number keys between feed override, spindle override, and both. Buy both I mean changing feed and speed to maintain the same

Re: [Emc-users] Homing of rotary axis

2010-05-15 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2010/5/15 Stephen Wille Padnosspad...@sover.net: [snip] Motors will be moving relatively slowly, so loss of torque in high speeds is not a problem. I expect that rotary axis will have to hold their existing position more than do any movement at all and steppers are

Re: [Emc-users] Jog under PAUSE / tool cnange

2010-05-15 Thread Dave
From the discussion I have heard there are many concerns about putting this functionality into EMC2 plus it is viewed as being very difficult. However, I was working some some hal configuration the other day and there is a hal component that allows an offset to be put into a position command

Re: [Emc-users] Jog under PAUSE / tool cnange

2010-05-15 Thread Dave
OK.. now I am confused. I haven't looked at Les' jog during tool change fix. Where is that fix documented? Is it in the Wiki? I have no idea why that is not in V2.4. Perhaps no one asked that it be included? Are you saying that you can do a jog during a tool change but you cannot do a

Re: [Emc-users] Axis mods

2010-05-15 Thread Dave
Use the Synaptic package manager to get and install Idle which is a editor/debugger for Python. It is small, yet powerful for finding errors and testing code. It saves much head banging. There is also Eclipse, which is a full blown IDE. It has a Python add in that you can load off the

Re: [Emc-users] Pendant documentation?

2010-05-15 Thread Chris Morley
Hi i check in downloads on linuxcnc web i did not see EMC2- 2.4. is 2.4 a upgrade from 2.2.5 or total new program? is 2.4 tight to UBUNTU or i need to do compile thing? thanks aram http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?UpdatingTo2.4

Re: [Emc-users] Microcontroller motor drive [Was: Resolver to Quadrature Convertor]

2010-05-15 Thread Andy Pugh
On 29 April 2010 21:36, Anders Wallin anders.e.e.wal...@gmail.com wrote: And I did get as far as actually rotating the motor with control by emc2/mesa5i20 card http://www.anderswallin.net/2006/06/first-steps-with-brushless-servodrive-microchip-dspic-irf-irams/ I was just looking at that. I

Re: [Emc-users] Pendant documentation?

2010-05-15 Thread a
main releases usually comes on one CD. Is 2.4 inter media release that soon will be updated again? After upgrades will I need to reset motor tuning parameters? aram Hi i check in downloads on linuxcnc web i did not see EMC2- 2.4. is 2.4 a upgrade from 2.2.5 or total new program? is 2.4