Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Eric Keller
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: Seems I've found a good reason to actually have a Raspberry Pi inside the cabinet, a perfect X host to unload the controller. I would really like to know if this works Eric

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 11/5/2012 11:43 AM, Eric Keller wrote: On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: Seems I've found a good reason to actually have a Raspberry Pi inside the cabinet, a perfect X host to unload the controller. I would really like to know if this works Eric

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread andy pugh
On 4 November 2012 15:48, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: Seems I've found a good reason to actually have a Raspberry Pi inside the cabinet, a perfect X host to unload the controller. This sounds like a really difficult way to solve the wrong problem. -- atp If you can't fix it, you

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Ralph Stirling
The big problem I've had with trying to put RPi's inside control cabinets is that they *really* don't like to be powered off at arbitrary times without a proper shutdown -h now. Less than a half-dozen power cycles and the SD card was corrupted. I have yet to find a satisfactory solution to this

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Ralph Stirling ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu wrote: The big problem I've had with trying to put RPi's inside control cabinets is that they *really* don't like to be powered off at arbitrary times without a proper shutdown -h now. Less than a half-dozen power

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Ralph Stirling
The problem I seemed to be observing (and seemed to be reported by others) was that the SD card gets corrupted even with RO file systems. Power cycling glitches cause inadvertent write cycles to the SD card. -- Ralph From: Przemek Klosowski

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Ralph Stirling ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu wrote: The problem I seemed to be observing (and seemed to be reported by others) was that the SD card gets corrupted even with RO file systems. Power cycling glitches cause inadvertent write cycles to the SD card.

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/5 Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Ralph Stirling ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu wrote: The problem I seemed to be observing (and seemed to be reported by others) was that the SD card gets corrupted even with RO file systems. Power

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 November 2012 19:10, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: @Andy, why is it difficult and why is it the wrong problem? I clearly measure a performance boost running the controller PC headless. Would it be easier and cheaper to order a Mesa board? No. It won't be cheaper _and_ easier,

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 05 November 2012 14:14:57 Przemek Klosowski did opine: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Ralph Stirling ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu wrote: The big problem I've had with trying to put RPi's inside control cabinets is that they *really* don't like to be powered off at

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Ralph Stirling
The write lock switch does not connect to anything on the RPi board. There is no write lock function provided. -- Ralph From: Przemek Klosowski [przemek.klosow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 10:42 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/11/5 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 5 November 2012 19:10, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: @Andy, why is it difficult and why is it the wrong problem? I clearly measure a performance boost running the controller PC headless. Would it be easier and cheaper to order a Mesa

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Ralph Stirling ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu wrote: The write lock switch does not connect to anything on the RPi board. There is no write lock function provided. One learns something every day: indeed the write protection is done by the reader, it's not a

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-11-05 Thread Sven Wesley
2012/11/5 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com 2012/11/5 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 5 November 2012 19:10, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: @Andy, why is it difficult and why is it the wrong problem? I clearly measure a performance boost running the controller PC

[Emc-users] Text on rounded button.

2012-11-05 Thread Erik Friesen
Any ideas how to get code to put text on this round button? http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/1WD16/679-2144-ND/2034700 The software I currently have is, alibre pro(no gcode), vcarve pro, and meshcam, none of which seem capable of curved text. There is just enough depth to where I could

Re: [Emc-users] Text on rounded button.

2012-11-05 Thread jeremy youngs
inkscape has a plug in i dont know if it will do curved letters or not though. i have it but we have mastercam at work so thats what i use On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net wrote: Any ideas how to get code to put text on this round button?

[Emc-users] Text on rounded button.

2012-11-05 Thread Roland Jollivet
On 6 November 2012 04:06, Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net wrote: Any ideas how to get code to put text on this round button? http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/1WD16/679-2144-ND/2034700 The software I currently have is, alibre pro(no gcode), vcarve pro, and meshcam, none of which seem

Re: [Emc-users] Text on rounded button.

2012-11-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 21:06 -0500, Erik Friesen wrote: Any ideas how to get code to put text on this round button? http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/1WD16/679-2144-ND/2034700 The software I currently have is, alibre pro(no gcode), vcarve pro, and meshcam, none of which seem capable of

Re: [Emc-users] Text on rounded button.

2012-11-05 Thread Erik Friesen
I have been trying to figure out how I could get a z lookup table, it wouldn't be that hard to process the code and add in the z if it was known. The button manufacturer provides stp files. For some reason, alibre doesn't want to do slices of that particular stp. I'll have to look at the