Re: [Emc-users] emc packages for ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx ?

2010-07-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 07/23/2010 04:34 AM, wk-l...@koebler.com wrote: > Are there any plans by now, when emc packages for ubuntu 10.04 should > be available ? > I just added Lucid (Ubuntu 10.04) packages of emc2, in Simulation *only*, to the buildbot: http://emc2-buildbot.colorado.edu/~buildmaster/ We don't ha

Re: [Emc-users] My first try to mill a simple layout

2010-07-23 Thread mach3
Nice setup. Looks like it works nice and smooth. Maybe it's just my inexperience, but I haven't seen hold down clamps like that before. Can you describe/show how they work? They look pretty cool. Michael -Original Message- From: Fox Mulder [mailto:quakem...@gmx.net] Sent: Thursda

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread Jon Elson
James Louis wrote: >> >> Lesson learned: Never upgrade a working machine. No, the lesson should be that you upgrade only for a specific reason that requires it, and always be ready to accept that there could be unexpected problems that crop up and have to be debugged. This is true for simple PC

Re: [Emc-users] schematics

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Powderly
Stuart didnt say what he expected/wanted to find but today i spent with one system installing AcadE and another running GEDA I envision drawing a schematic showing the relational connections, like mains swx to fuses to filters to distribution to safety relays to servo drives nad int he establising

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread James Louis
Thank you both for the clarification. I officially withdraw my lesson learned and replace it as such: This mailing list rocks. - Original Message - From: John Kasunich To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Sent: Fri Jul 23 15:19:16 2010 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names

[Emc-users] (Re)hal for gantry kinematics

2010-07-23 Thread Andrey
Many thanks ,Andy, for your answer. I will follow your recommendations, I hope that you do not deny assistance to me,if I have difficulties with my HAL file. Your advices very much help me. Andrey -- This SF.net em

Re: [Emc-users] hal for gantry kinematics

2010-07-23 Thread Andy Pugh
On 23 July 2010 20:09, Andrey wrote: > Why do you consider it wrong > net Ppos-fb axis.3.motor-pos-fb => pid.3.feedback > After all for four independent axes it works. > Yes, I have connected the Npos-fb signals to encoders: > linksp Ppos-fb <= motenc.0.enc-03-position. If the Npos-fb signals ar

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread John Kasunich
James Louis wrote: > Jon is right, you cannot. Unless you are running pre-2.2.x EMC2. > Quote from http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?UPDATING: > > 3.4. double-linking of pins is now treated as an error > halcmd and hal_link() now refuse to link an already-linked pin. This > immediately

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
James Louis wrote: > Jon is right, you cannot. Unless you are running pre-2.2.x EMC2. Quote from > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?UPDATING: > > 3.4. double-linking of pins is now treated as an error > halcmd and hal_link() now refuse to link an already-linked pin. This > immediatel

Re: [Emc-users] Axis Disable in EMC2?

2010-07-23 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Speaker To-Dirt wrote: > Hey All: > > Thanks for the fast replies. Hummm. I thought of turning off outputs > to the parallel port, but wanted something I could use as a fast test of > individual axes on individual programs. What I did do was comment out all > motion in the XY plane and k

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread James Louis
Jon is right, you cannot. Unless you are running pre-2.2.x EMC2. Quote from http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?UPDATING: 3.4. double-linking of pins is now treated as an error halcmd and hal_link() now refuse to link an already-linked pin. This immediately diagnoses configuration erro

[Emc-users] hal for gantry kinematics

2010-07-23 Thread Andrey
On 23 July 2010 18:35, Andrey wrote: > > > Hi everybody! For gantry milling mashine it is necessary to synchronize two > motors on one axis. Andy Pugh wrote:"If you really want to just "slave" one > axis to another, you could try :" net Xpos-cmd axis.0.motor-pos-cmd => pid.0.command > net Y

Re: [Emc-users] Axis Disable in EMC2?

2010-07-23 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 11:45 -0700, Speaker To-Dirt wrote: > Hey All: > >Thanks for the fast replies. Hummm. I thought of turning off > outputs to the parallel port, but wanted something I could use as a > fast test of individual axes on individual programs. What I did do was > comment out

Re: [Emc-users] Axis Disable in EMC2?

2010-07-23 Thread Carsten Presser
Hi, I have some nice Plugs on my stepper, so I could just remove them for testing purposes :) Am 23.07.2010 20:45, schrieb Speaker To-Dirt: > Hey All: > > Thanks for the fast replies. Hummm. I thought of turning off outputs > to the parallel port, but wanted something I could use as a

Re: [Emc-users] Axis Disable in EMC2?

2010-07-23 Thread Speaker To-Dirt
Hey All: Thanks for the fast replies. Hummm. I thought of turning off outputs to the parallel port, but wanted something I could use as a fast test of individual axes on individual programs. What I did do was comment out all motion in the XY plane and keep all the Z motion. But that mean

Re: [Emc-users] Axis Disable in EMC2?

2010-07-23 Thread Don Stanley
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Speaker To-Dirt wrote: > Hey Folks: > > I feel silly asking this question, but here goes. I ran into an issue > using peck drilling with the tool retract. The end result was my Z stepper > was missing pulses on the retract. So I've derated the max accel and vel o

Re: [Emc-users] Axis Disable in EMC2?

2010-07-23 Thread Andy Pugh
On 23 July 2010 18:47, Speaker To-Dirt wrote: > Is there something I'm missing? I'm sure there has to be a way to do this, > and I'm sure it staring me in the face. Can someone show me how stupid I am > and point this out to me? As far as I know there is no such command (but my knowledge is f

Re: [Emc-users] schematics

2010-07-23 Thread Karl Schmidt
kurniadi wrote: > > I have use Kicad almost 1 year, and this perfect Schematic & PCB > layout design, I second that recommendation - I've used proprietary packages that lack features found in kicad. Karl Schmid

Re: [Emc-users] Axis Disable in EMC2?

2010-07-23 Thread Dave Caroline
Normally the last thing you want to ever do on a stepper system is disable, you can then lose steps, there is no guarantee than they will maintain position when powered off and may even jump to another position when powered back on. Dave Caroline On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Speaker To-Dirt

Re: [Emc-users] hal for gantry kinematics

2010-07-23 Thread Andy Pugh
On 23 July 2010 18:35, Andrey wrote: > > > Hi everybody! For gantry milling mashine it is necessary to synchronize two > motors on one axis. Andy Pugh wrote:"If you really want to just "slave" one > axis to another, you could try :" >                                                              

Re: [Emc-users] Axis Disable in EMC2?

2010-07-23 Thread Speaker To-Dirt
Hey Folks: I feel silly asking this question, but here goes. I ran into an issue using peck drilling with the tool retract. The end result was my Z stepper was missing pulses on the retract. So I've derated the max accel and vel on the Z axis and everything looks good, however what I'd reall

[Emc-users] hal for gantry kinematics

2010-07-23 Thread Andrey
Hi everybody! For gantry milling mashine it is necessary to synchronize two motors on one axis. Andy Pugh wrote:"If you really want to just "slave" one axis to another, you could try :" net

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Fwd Kinematics Equation

2010-07-23 Thread Alex Joni
This is "easily" handled by genserkins. genserkins = general serial kinematics (e.g. kins where each joint is serially connected to the previous one). Take a look at the (very brief) description of how I set up genserkins for a puma560: http://juve.ro/blog/puma You would have to translate your

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread Jon Elson
Andy Pugh wrote: > > I am curious about why you wish to retain both signal names? The > signal will only ever take one value, after all. > (I am actually not entirely sure why we have signal names at all, > other than making Halscope a little easier to setup) > > Due to the hideous way I constru

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread Jon Elson
James Louis wrote: > Thanks for the reply Kirk. Having explained it, would you (or anyone) mind > translating the following generic sample to "net" without deleting any signal > names? : > > newsig signalnameA bit > newsig signalnameB bit > newsig signalnameC bit > linksp signalnameA <= inputpin

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: > You may have only one output pin attached to a signal name (or think of > a signal name as a wire name), with one or more pins attached that > accept input. There can only be one boss per signal (or wire). You > should be able to assign a single output pin to more than one sig

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 07:27 -0500, James Louis wrote: > Thanks for the reply Kirk. Having explained it, would you (or anyone) mind > translating the following generic sample to "net" without deleting any signal > names? : > > newsig signalnameA bit > newsig signalnameB bit > newsig signalnameC

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Fwd Kinematics Equation

2010-07-23 Thread Andy Pugh
On 23 July 2010 15:36, Ted Hyde wrote: > I've pushed through a lot of the DH descriptors - but to be honest, my > few remaining brain cells just aren't up to the task of multiplying and > transforming 6 4x4 matricies anymore (if they ever were!)- of which I > probably would get it wrong a lot

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread James Louis
All good points. I was trying to retain signal names for Hal configuration "watch" set up. I'll do some translating this weekend. Thanks guys! -Original Message- From: Andy Pugh [mailto:a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 7:59 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) S

[Emc-users] OT: Fwd Kinematics Equation

2010-07-23 Thread Ted Hyde
Does anyone happen to have a completed (or process to complete one) equation for forward kinematics to solve the following structure? Origin Fixed point (A) --> Joint Length (L1) --> Wrist (F) --> Elbow (B) --> Joint Length (L2) --> Wrist (G) --> Elbow (C) --> Joint Length (L3) --> Wrist (H) -->

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread Andy Pugh
On 23 July 2010 13:27, James Louis wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Kirk.  Having explained it, would you (or anyone) mind > translating the following generic sample to "net" without deleting any signal > names? : I am curious about why you wish to retain both signal names? The signal will only

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
James Louis wrote: > Thanks for the reply Kirk. Having explained it, would you (or anyone) mind > translating the following generic sample to "net" without deleting any signal > names? : > > newsig signalnameA bit > newsig signalnameB bit > newsig signalnameC bit > linksp signalnameA<= inputpin1

Re: [Emc-users] Assigning 2 signal names to 1 pin

2010-07-23 Thread James Louis
Thanks for the reply Kirk. Having explained it, would you (or anyone) mind translating the following generic sample to "net" without deleting any signal names? : newsig signalnameA bit newsig signalnameB bit newsig signalnameC bit linksp signalnameA <= inputpin1 linksp signalnameA => axis.0.neg

Re: [Emc-users] schematics

2010-07-23 Thread Rainer Schmidt
Check out VIACAD from punchcad. Very solid and scary cheap. Rainer On Jul 23, 2010, at 4:59 AM, kurniadi wrote: > 2010/7/23 Nicolas HENRY : >> >> Perhaps : >> >> Kicad or Qucs ( but electronics orientation) >> >> Le jeudi 22 juillet 2010, Thomas Powderly a écrit : >>> Stuart > > I have use Ki

[Emc-users] emc packages for ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx ?

2010-07-23 Thread wk-list
Hello, Are there any plans by now, when emc packages for ubuntu 10.04 should be available ? Thanks for your Work. Bye, Wolfgang Koebler -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the fi

Re: [Emc-users] My first try to mill a simple layout

2010-07-23 Thread Steve Robertson
> > Very nice. Can you provide some details as to what kind of controllers, > > drives, screws, etc... You are using? > > Sure thing. > > For the electronic part i use a simple self build 3-axis L297/L298 > stepper driver which is interfaced to the parallel port of the pc. > > In the mechanical par

Re: [Emc-users] schematics

2010-07-23 Thread kurniadi
2010/7/23 Nicolas HENRY : > > Perhaps : > > Kicad or Qucs ( but electronics orientation) > > Le jeudi 22 juillet 2010, Thomas Powderly a écrit : >> Stuart I have use Kicad almost 1 year, and this perfect Schematic & PCB layout design, If you want simulated your schematic you should try geda. For p