Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 14, 2012 12:33:14 AM gene heskett did opine: [huge snip] > I ran some of the housekeeping stuff on that page, essentially getting > null answers as it reported they had nothing to do. > > Perhaps there is a forum someplace in java land that could help? I'll > ask on the pcl

Re: [Emc-users] steppers

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 07:42:17 PM Cathrine Hribar did opine: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:22:26 -0500 > > gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, January 13, 2012 03:00:21 PM Cathrine Hribar did opine: > >> Hi Gene: > >> > >> Tnx for the info on ur steppers. > >> > >> I have 8 wire steppers and

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 07:24:41 PM Fox Mulder did opine: > Am 13.01.2012 23:41, schrieb gene heskett: > > On Friday, January 13, 2012 05:13:38 PM Fox Mulder did opine: > >> Am 13.01.2012 22:04, schrieb gene heskett: > >>> On Friday, January 13, 2012 03:54:18 PM Fox Mulder did opine: > Am

Re: [Emc-users] steppers

2012-01-13 Thread Cathrine Hribar
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:22:26 -0500 gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, January 13, 2012 03:00:21 PM Cathrine Hribar did opine: > >> Hi Gene: >> >> Tnx for the info on ur steppers. >> >> I have 8 wire steppers and have wired them series. From what you said >> about your steppers, and controlle

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 13.01.2012 23:41, schrieb gene heskett: > On Friday, January 13, 2012 05:13:38 PM Fox Mulder did opine: > >> Am 13.01.2012 22:04, schrieb gene heskett: >>> On Friday, January 13, 2012 03:54:18 PM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 13.01.2012 18:38, schrieb gene heskett: > How does one run this v

Re: [Emc-users] steppers

2012-01-13 Thread Cathrine Hribar
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:59:48 -0500 Ed Nisley wrote: > On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:09 -0700, Cathrine Hribar wrote: >> if the steppers are wired in series, like I wired mine, >> they would require twice as much current > > Having waded through this mess not too long ago, here's what I (think I

Re: [Emc-users] steppers

2012-01-13 Thread Cathrine Hribar
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:48:42 + andy pugh wrote: > On 13 January 2012 17:09, Cathrine Hribar wrote: > >> My controller is, like yours, 2.8 amp limit. As I think about it, if the >> steppers are wired in series, like I wired mine, they would require twice as >> much current to give the mo

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 05:13:38 PM Fox Mulder did opine: > Am 13.01.2012 22:04, schrieb gene heskett: > > On Friday, January 13, 2012 03:54:18 PM Fox Mulder did opine: > >> Am 13.01.2012 18:38, schrieb gene heskett: > >>> How does one run this visolate-2.1.6.jar then? The usual "java -jar >

Re: [Emc-users] steppers

2012-01-13 Thread Ed Nisley
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:09 -0700, Cathrine Hribar wrote: > if the steppers are wired in series, like I wired mine, > they would require twice as much current Having waded through this mess not too long ago, here's what I (think I) know... Putting the two halves of a single pole's winding in se

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 13.01.2012 22:04, schrieb gene heskett: > On Friday, January 13, 2012 03:54:18 PM Fox Mulder did opine: > >> Am 13.01.2012 18:38, schrieb gene heskett: >>> How does one run this visolate-2.1.6.jar then? The usual "java -jar >>> visolate-2.1.6.jar" without a valid input filename doesn't output

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 03:54:18 PM Fox Mulder did opine: > Am 13.01.2012 18:38, schrieb gene heskett: > > How does one run this visolate-2.1.6.jar then? The usual "java -jar > > visolate-2.1.6.jar" without a valid input filename doesn't output any > > obvious clues to a java newbie: > > gene

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 03:32:54 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, January 13, 2012 12:55:02 PM andy pugh did opine: > >> On 13 January 2012 11:16, wrote: > >>> I use pcb2gcode with gEDA files without any problems > >>> Very good utili

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 13.01.2012 18:38, schrieb gene heskett: > How does one run this visolate-2.1.6.jar then? The usual "java -jar > visolate-2.1.6.jar" without a valid input filename doesn't output any > obvious clues to a java newbie: > gene@coyote pcb2gcode-1.1.4]$ java -jar /usr/share/java/visolate-2.1.6.jar

Re: [Emc-users] steppers

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 03:00:21 PM Cathrine Hribar did opine: > Hi Gene: > > Tnx for the info on ur steppers. > > I have 8 wire steppers and have wired them series. From what you said > about your steppers, and controller, you wired in parallel, true? > > My controller is, like yours, 2.8

Re: [Emc-users] unexpected reset of the emc.var file

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 02:57:32 PM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 01/13/2012 09:57 AM, gene heskett wrote: > > Good to hear. Actually, this is the sort of thing I've had happen 2 > > or 3 times in old winderz NT-3.51 and 4.0 systems. Suddenly a very > > important DLL with either be zero'ed out,

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread kqt4at5v
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, January 13, 2012 12:55:02 PM andy pugh did opine: > >> On 13 January 2012 11:16, wrote: >>> I use pcb2gcode with gEDA files without any problems >>> Very good utility, easy to use >> >> As it claims to output EMC2-ready G-code, presumably it

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 and LabVIEW

2012-01-13 Thread Karl Cunningham
Labview can talk TCP/IP. Maybe it can interface with EMC2 that way. Karl On 01/13/2012 07:17 AM, Andrew wrote: > Hello gentlemen, > > We'd like to control a parallel robot with EMC2 and also with LabVIEW > sometimes. I just wonder if any MESA FPGA card can be used with LabVIEW, or > is there any

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2012-01-13 Thread Jeshua Lacock
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Re: [Emc-users] source code link request

2012-01-13 Thread s...@highlab.com
Oh! Try "git checkout ". - Reply message - From: "Spiderdab" <77...@tiscali.it> Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 10:56 Subject: [Emc-users] source code link request To: , "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" On ven, 2012-01-13 at 10:29 -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > On 01/13/2012 10:20 AM,

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 12:55:02 PM andy pugh did opine: > On 13 January 2012 11:16, wrote: > > I use pcb2gcode with gEDA files without any problems > > Very good utility, easy to use > > As it claims to output EMC2-ready G-code, presumably it could be used > as an EMC2 filter file, so that

Re: [Emc-users] source code link request

2012-01-13 Thread Spiderdab
On ven, 2012-01-13 at 10:29 -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > On 01/13/2012 10:20 AM, Spiderdab wrote: > > Some suggestions? ..maybe i'm doing something really stupid.. > > Thanks, Davide. > > I think you'll be much happier if you use git, like Peter originally > suggested. There's instruction

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 12:51:56 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Mark Wendt wrote: > > On 01/12/2012 04:17 PM, gene heskett wrote: > >> On Thursday, January 12, 2012 03:53:27 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: > >>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Thu,

Re: [Emc-users] Where the file goes [Was: More Eagle Taming]

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 12:54:11 PM Erik Christiansen did opine: > Forgot to mention that the 1_mystuff.lbr library need only be copied to > the lbr directory in your install, for the application to pick it up > when it starts. (Just thought I'd save wear on those manual pages. :-) > > Erik

Re: [Emc-users] More Eagle Taming

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 12:50:41 PM Erik Christiansen did opine: > On 13.01.12 02:58, gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, January 13, 2012 01:52:13 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: > > > As Rainer says, once the peculiarities of parts editing are > > > sufficiently mastered, it's fairly easy. >

Re: [Emc-users] steppers

2012-01-13 Thread andy pugh
On 13 January 2012 17:09, Cathrine Hribar wrote: > My controller is, like yours, 2.8 amp limit. As I think about it, if the > steppers are wired in series, like I wired mine, they would require twice as > much current to give the most torque, right?. No. In series you get twice the current throu

Re: [Emc-users] Analogue inputs into EMC2.

2012-01-13 Thread Dave
On 1/13/2012 7:57 AM, andy pugh wrote: > I had an idea of a way to measure analogue voltages with EMC2 a few days ago. > > It ought to be possible for a HAL module to send a sawtooth PWM signal > on an output pin, and monitor one or more input pins. Externally a > PWM-voltage conversion circuit and

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 12:19:12 PM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 01/12/2012 04:17 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > On Thursday, January 12, 2012 03:53:27 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: > >> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Kirk Wallace wrote: > >>> On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 12:55 -0500, gene heskett wrote: >

Re: [Emc-users] source code link request

2012-01-13 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 01/13/2012 10:20 AM, Spiderdab wrote: > Some suggestions? ..maybe i'm doing something really stupid.. > Thanks, Davide. I think you'll be much happier if you use git, like Peter originally suggested. There's instructions on the wiki: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Installing_EMC

Re: [Emc-users] source code link request

2012-01-13 Thread Spiderdab
> >>> Sorry for the stupid question, but really i can't find where emc2 source > >>> code is! > >>> i'm looking for master code. > >>> Need to take vismach.py, cause i've messed it.. > >>> thanks! > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> git.linuxcnc.org? > >> > >> Peter Wallace > > > > uhu.. ok. > > i asked 'ca

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 09:57:56 AM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 01/12/2012 04:17 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > On Thursday, January 12, 2012 03:53:27 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: > >> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Kirk Wallace wrote: > >>> On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 12:55 -0500, gene heskett wrote: >

Re: [Emc-users] steppers

2012-01-13 Thread Cathrine Hribar
Hi Gene: Tnx for the info on ur steppers. I have 8 wire steppers and have wired them series. From what you said about your steppers, and controller, you wired in parallel, true? My controller is, like yours, 2.8 amp limit. As I think about it, if the steppers are wired in series, like I wi

Re: [Emc-users] source code link request

2012-01-13 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Spiderdab wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:54:44 +0100 > From: Spiderdab <77...@tiscali.it> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] source code link request > > On ven, 2012-01-13 at 07:39

Re: [Emc-users] source code link request

2012-01-13 Thread Spiderdab
On ven, 2012-01-13 at 07:39 -0800, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Spiderdab wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:34:45 +0100 > > From: Spiderdab <77...@tiscali.it> > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > To: Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Emc

Re: [Emc-users] source code link request

2012-01-13 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Spiderdab wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:34:45 +0100 > From: Spiderdab <77...@tiscali.it> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Emc-users] source code link request > > Sorry for the stupid question, but re

[Emc-users] source code link request

2012-01-13 Thread Spiderdab
Sorry for the stupid question, but really i can't find where emc2 source code is! i'm looking for master code. Need to take vismach.py, cause i've messed it.. thanks! -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by

[Emc-users] EMC2 and LabVIEW

2012-01-13 Thread Andrew
Hello gentlemen, We'd like to control a parallel robot with EMC2 and also with LabVIEW sometimes. I just wonder if any MESA FPGA card can be used with LabVIEW, or is there any other card with EMC2 and LabVIEW support? Or some way to connect EMC2 and LabVIEW (that's unlikely). I guess that we shoul

Re: [Emc-users] unexpected reset of the emc.var file

2012-01-13 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/13/2012 09:57 AM, gene heskett wrote: >> > Good to hear. Actually, this is the sort of thing I've had happen 2 or 3 > times in old winderz NT-3.51 and 4.0 systems. Suddenly a very important > DLL with either be zero'ed out, or just plain nuked. Makes it very > difficult to trouble sh

Re: [Emc-users] unexpected reset of the emc.var file

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 09:31:24 AM yann jautard did opine: > Le 12/01/2012 23:34, gene heskett a écrit : > > On Thursday, January 12, 2012 05:29:04 PM robert did opine: > >> i have seen my work offset disapear also and its more todo with > >> machine being shutdown/turned off with out it doin

[Emc-users] Analogue inputs into EMC2.

2012-01-13 Thread andy pugh
I had an idea of a way to measure analogue voltages with EMC2 a few days ago. It ought to be possible for a HAL module to send a sawtooth PWM signal on an output pin, and monitor one or more input pins. Externally a PWM-voltage conversion circuit and a bank of comparators would switch the input pi

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread andy pugh
On 13 January 2012 11:16, wrote: > I use pcb2gcode with gEDA files without any problems > Very good utility, easy to use As it claims to output EMC2-ready G-code, presumably it could be used as an EMC2 filter file, so that EMC2 can dimply open Gerbers? -- atp The idea that there is no such th

[Emc-users] Where the file goes [Was: More Eagle Taming]

2012-01-13 Thread Erik Christiansen
Forgot to mention that the 1_mystuff.lbr library need only be copied to the lbr directory in your install, for the application to pick it up when it starts. (Just thought I'd save wear on those manual pages. :-) Erik -- Meskimen's Law: There's never time to do it right, but always time to do

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread kqt4at5v
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Mark Wendt wrote: > On 01/12/2012 04:17 PM, gene heskett wrote: >> On Thursday, January 12, 2012 03:53:27 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: >> >> >>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Kirk Wallace wrote: >>> On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 12:55 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday,

Re: [Emc-users] More Eagle Taming

2012-01-13 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 13.01.12 02:58, gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, January 13, 2012 01:52:13 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: > > As Rainer says, once the peculiarities of parts editing are sufficiently > > mastered, it's fairly easy. > > And apparently that is my first requirement, the detector end in these slot

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/12/2012 04:17 PM, gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, January 12, 2012 03:53:27 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine: > > >> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Kirk Wallace wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 12:55 -0500, gene heskett wrote: >>> On Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:43:08 PM an

Re: [Emc-users] unexpected reset of the emc.var file

2012-01-13 Thread yann jautard
Le 12/01/2012 23:34, gene heskett a écrit : > On Thursday, January 12, 2012 05:29:04 PM robert did opine: > >> i have seen my work offset disapear also and its more todo with machine >> being shutdown/turned off with out it doing a full shutdown, iv not dug >> deep into it but it seems EMC does n

Re: [Emc-users] gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.

2012-01-13 Thread Ian W. Wright
On the subject of CAD software - is everyone aware that Autodesk offer free use of any of their software to students of any age and also to 'Veterans'. There are a number of programs available including AutoCad - normal, Mechanical and Electrical - Inventor, which is interesting and quite easy

Re: [Emc-users] More Eagle Taming [Was: gEDA / Correcting for workpiece warpage.]

2012-01-13 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, January 13, 2012 01:52:13 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: > On 12.01.12 17:28, gene heskett wrote: > > Which is the reason I am going out to get another armload of 2 & 1/2" > > ring binders after dinner, I'm going to convert it to dead trees. > > Very glad to hear that the eagle has be