[Emc-users] CNC Auction

2012-02-02 Thread andy pugh
http://www2.ppauctions.com/auction.php?id=52 Some useful looking stuff. (complete machines are an the last two pages) -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. -- Keep Your

Re: [Emc-users] Simulator based on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric

2012-02-02 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/2/2 Yishin Li y...@araisrobo.com On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: Gentlemen (I've asked before, here are no women), Anders Wallin got the simulator running within 11.10, and I made it as well by some slight changes to Anders guide. I wrote

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-02-02 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 01.02.12 20:32, Kenneth Lerman wrote: On 01/31/2012 11:14 PM, Erik Christiansen wrote: Any need to know the run-time state of a modality before run-time is illusory. That which needs to be known at run-time needs to be known at run time, not before. It is worth understanding that the

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-02-02 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 01.02.12 08:42, dave wrote: On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 19:34:09 +1100 Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net wrote: On 31.01.12 21:45, dave wrote: To my uncluttered mind ... read blank ... is this a good way to set the state of a machine at any given line as a precursor to restart

Re: [Emc-users] rs274ngc bison/flex parser

2012-02-02 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 01.02.12 16:45, Michael Haberler wrote: Am 01.02.2012 um 13:36 schrieb Erik Christiansen: On 01.02.12 11:48, Michael Haberler wrote: Currently I dont see a formal way to describe the interdependencies of several words on a block. You can do the optional parameter words in the

Re: [Emc-users] Fear and Loathing on the Internet

2012-02-02 Thread Mark Wendt
On 02/01/2012 03:05 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On Feb 1, 2012, at 09:13 , Matt Shaver wrote: What I can offer is to be the defendant of any lawsuits against the project. Any entity, like EMC Corporation, who feels they have a claim against the project can feel free to sue me if they

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-02-02 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/31 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: This can be mitigated by putting a common mode choke (Big ferrite bead) over the three motor leads (DO NOT include the ground lead) 1) I wrapped each of 3 power wires for motor around a separate ferrite bead. 2) I connected machine frame to common

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-02-02 Thread John Kasunich
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 08:20 PM, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 01.02.12 20:32, Kenneth Lerman wrote: 3 -- A semantic analyzer (whether rule based or coded) will be necessary. Do you want to prove some property of the gcode program, such as whether it will ever reach the end? I've only

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-02-02 Thread John Kasunich
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 09:11 AM, John Kasunich wrote: If you are going to invent a black box (parser, whatever) that takes in some new dialog and spits out g-code, without doing I meant dialect, not dialog, sorry all the checks that the interpreter eventually will do, please think about

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-02-02 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 02, 2012 08:51:35 AM Viesturs Lācis did opine: 2012/1/31 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: This can be mitigated by putting a common mode choke (Big ferrite bead) over the three motor leads (DO NOT include the ground lead) 1) I wrapped each of 3 power wires

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-02-02 Thread andy pugh
On 2 February 2012 15:09, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Could it be anything else, but the encoder problem? It could be an unfortunate resonance between the mechanical frequency of the machine frame and the servo loop. This might be why increasing the servo frequency was

Re: [Emc-users] Passing file names into a subroutine

2012-02-02 Thread Alan Condit
On 2 February 2012 03:51, Kenneth Lerman kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.com wrote: BTW: That's another place where it would be nice to have variables with string values. andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: Considering that C doesn't really do strings, adding them to G-code might be nontrivial.

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-02-02 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/2/2 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com ... So my conclusion is - machine is not losing encoder counts, there is no significant noise in encoder signal. Could it be anything else, but the encoder problem? ... Did you try my suggestion to ground the encoder, as written in my

Re: [Emc-users] rs274ngc bison/flex parser

2012-02-02 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 02.02.2012 um 03:02 schrieb Kenneth Lerman: READ = s(hundred) m 3 bad number format (conversion failed) parsing '' s(hundred) m 3 That kind of 'language spec' can stand improvement.. so my parser doubles as a reverse-engineering tool;) I believe that the comment IS being ignored.

Re: [Emc-users] Passing file names into a subroutine

2012-02-02 Thread andy pugh
On 2 February 2012 17:09, Alan Condit acon...@ipns.com wrote: Gee, I bet that news would surprise Kernigan and Ritchie. I've been using strings in 'C' since 1977. No, you have been using arrays of chars, and an external library to do even simple things like compare two strings to see if they

Re: [Emc-users] Passing file names into a subroutine

2012-02-02 Thread dave
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:33:10 +0200 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2012 17:09, Alan Condit acon...@ipns.com wrote: Gee, I bet that news would surprise Kernigan and Ritchie. I've been using strings in 'C' since 1977. So much of KR C was almost a 1:1 correspondence with

Re: [Emc-users] Control a hot wire foam cutter using LinuxCNC?

2012-02-02 Thread Peter Georgi
Thank you Andy, I will follow your instructions . Regards Peter -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Andy Pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2012 23:27 An: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Betreff: Re: [Emc-users] Control a hot wire foam cutter using LinuxCNC?

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-02-02 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/2/2 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 2 February 2012 15:09, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Could it be anything else, but the encoder problem? It could be an unfortunate resonance between the mechanical frequency of the machine frame and the servo loop. This might be why

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-02-02 Thread Ed Nisley
On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 09:36 -0500, gene heskett wrote: that would require a function generator Perhaps gimmicking up a HAL circuit with siggen or freqgen to drive the stepper, then compare the encoder input with the motor output? You probably don't need a sine wave, just drive the motor back

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-02-02 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 02.02.12 09:11, John Kasunich wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 08:20 PM, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 01.02.12 20:32, Kenneth Lerman wrote: 3 -- A semantic analyzer (whether rule based or coded) will be necessary. Do you want to prove some property of the gcode program, such as whether

Re: [Emc-users] question on gcode parsing

2012-02-02 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 03.02.12 12:49, Erik Christiansen wrote: What I did in July does already check for some run-time conflicts which I found in the doco, e.g. Turning on radius compensation in an illegal plane: The snippet can pick up the conflict in a simple fall-through gcode program, but not if the axes are

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Possible Retrofit candidate for someone in the heartland

2012-02-02 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
Went for $2555. People spend more on a card game... or kids... On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: On 1/25/2012 12:31 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: since I am about 5 miles from the base a second trip would not be a problem - if I forgot some paperwork

Re: [Emc-users] US Digital encoders?

2012-02-02 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:20:56 PM Ed Nisley did opine: On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 09:36 -0500, gene heskett wrote: that would require a function generator Perhaps gimmicking up a HAL circuit with siggen or freqgen to drive the stepper, then compare the encoder input with the motor

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Possible Retrofit candidate for someone in the heartland

2012-02-02 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 21:53 -0500, BRIAN GLACKIN wrote: Went for $2555. People spend more on a card game... or kids... I paid around $2000 for my Shizouka, in good shape, with Bandit, tool changer and some tooling. Hopefully, at this price, the buyer is serious about restoring it. -- Kirk

[Emc-users] SJ200 VFD and Modbus

2012-02-02 Thread Kirk Wallace
I'm trying to get my SJ200 VFD connected with Modbus. In preparation for this I ported a MVX9000 which I had on the shelf. It turned out to be a slam dunk, almost. http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/EMC2/mvx9000/ The SJ200 is a different story. It turns out Hitachi made a rev. 1 and 2

Re: [Emc-users] SJ200 VFD and Modbus

2012-02-02 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
So which version do you need? I've made my own revision 2 driver. -Original Message- From: Kirk Wallace [mailto:kwall...@wallacecompany.com] Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012 2:51 PM To: LinuxCNC Users List Subject: [Emc-users] SJ200 VFD and Modbus I'm trying to get my SJ200 VFD

Re: [Emc-users] SJ200 VFD and Modbus

2012-02-02 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 16:12 +1100, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: So which version do you need? I've made my own revision 2 driver. I have rev. 2, or rather SJ200subscript2. If your component is GPL'd then I'd appreciate getting a copy, although my problem seems to be with libmodbus. I'm planning on