Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 88, Issue 38

2013-08-10 Thread Tolip Wen
Hi, To everyone involved, thx for LinuxCNC and specifically the BBB port!!! I have been off and on lurkin on the fringes of EMC & LinuxCNC for years. Once upon a time I had an order for a shoptask machine, but canceled after 7 months of no delivery. I still keep an old Sony Viao laptop running

Re: [Emc-users] Keystick with 4D Machine

2013-08-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 8/10/2013 5:42 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 10 August 2013 22:34, Kent A. Reed wrote: > >>> I suspect that it could be expanded to 9 axes with just copy and >>> paste, it is just a single FORTRAN++ file :-) > >> Funny, it's a single C++ file on my machine. > > Sorry, that was an attempt at prog

Re: [Emc-users] Keystick with 4D Machine

2013-08-10 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 8/10/2013 6:42 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 10 August 2013 22:34, Kent A. Reed wrote: > >>> I suspect that it could be expanded to 9 axes with just copy and >>> paste, it is just a single FORTRAN++ file :-) >> Funny, it's a single C++ file on my machine. > Sorry, that was an attempt at programmer

Re: [Emc-users] Keystick with 4D Machine

2013-08-10 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 03:49:18PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > I'm liking keystick a lot, but I can't get it to actually do much. I > can jog around and home X, Y, and Z, but I can't run an MDI command or a > program because it tells me "can't do that when not homed". > > How do I hom

Re: [Emc-users] Keystick with 4D Machine

2013-08-10 Thread andy pugh
On 10 August 2013 22:34, Kent A. Reed wrote: >> I suspect that it could be expanded to 9 axes with just copy and >> paste, it is just a single FORTRAN++ file :-) > Funny, it's a single C++ file on my machine. Sorry, that was an attempt at programmer humour. Like lot of the C++ files in LinuxCNC

Re: [Emc-users] Keystick with 4D Machine

2013-08-10 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 8/10/2013 5:19 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 10 August 2013 21:49, Charles Steinkuehler > wrote: > >> I'm liking keystick a lot, but I can't get it to actually do much. I >> can jog around and home X, Y, and Z, but I can't run an MDI command or a >> program because it tells me "can't do that when

Re: [Emc-users] Keystick with 4D Machine

2013-08-10 Thread andy pugh
On 10 August 2013 21:49, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > I'm liking keystick a lot, but I can't get it to actually do much. I > can jog around and home X, Y, and Z, but I can't run an MDI command or a > program because it tells me "can't do that when not homed". > > How do I home the A axis (or an

Re: [Emc-users] Keystick with 4D Machine

2013-08-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 8/7/2013 6:54 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 7 August 2013 12:44, Paul Lacatus wrote: > >> As far as I understood from what I found on the net the BBB grafic is >> not quite performant > > There are more graphically lightweight alternatives to Axis available. > For example: > http://www.linuxcnc.o

Re: [Emc-users] The LCNC Forum

2013-08-10 Thread Andy Pugh
On 10 Aug 2013, at 17:30, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > It took me about 4 tries. Between the three different captcha's on one > page, I know it seems overkill, but with only one CAPTCHA there was a day when JT and myself fielded 1000 spam subscriptions _each_. I suspect that we probably d

Re: [Emc-users] The LCNC Forum

2013-08-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 8/10/2013 9:58 AM, Ray Debs wrote: >> Message: 3 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 20:36:06 +0200 From: "Belli >> Button" Subject: Re: [Emc-users] The LCNC >> Forum To: "'Enhanced Machine Controller \(EMC\)'" >> >> I'm having trouble trying to retrieve my password from the forum, >> even tried re-registe

Re: [Emc-users] The LCNC Forum

2013-08-10 Thread W. Martinjak
On 2013-08-10 18:30, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > It took me about 4 tries. Between the three different captcha's on one page, > it seemed like I always got at least one of them wrong. I probably > wouldn't pass a Turing test either. :-/ :D -- "In der Wissenschaft siegt nie eine neue Theorie,

Re: [Emc-users] The LCNC Forum

2013-08-10 Thread Ray Debs
> Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 20:36:06 +0200 > From: "Belli Button" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] The LCNC Forum > To: "'Enhanced Machine Controller \(EMC\)'" > > Message-ID: <005001ce952f$53846470$fa8d2d50$@iafrica.com> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset="us-ascii" > > I'm having tro

Re: [Emc-users] Using an old Anilam control panel with LCNC?

2013-08-10 Thread John Murphy
I think the Mesa 7i73 would be the easiest solution - I run a catV cable through the arm that supports my screen and connect the plethora of old switches on my series 1 to it. Already has native hal support, just tie the switches to your functions and go. On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Gregg

Re: [Emc-users] Thermocouple to LinuxCNC

2013-08-10 Thread Mark Wendt
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Troy Jacobson wrote: > Changing to a thermcouple is a near future project for me, too. The MAX > chip looks better for this application, especially since I'm looking at > nylon and maybe PC printing (300-320C range). > > For this, the AD595 has a couple of issues

Re: [Emc-users] Planning phase for new machine, need decision support

2013-08-10 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 20:10:45 +0200, you wrote: >Thanks Steve, that got me thinking. :) >And as it happened I had some boring long term tasks at work today (load >testing of a distributed retail system) and some spare time when watching >the monitors and log files. So I took it further and sourced

Re: [Emc-users] Using an old Anilam control panel with LCNC?

2013-08-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On Fri, 8/9/13, Andy Pugh wrote: Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Using an old Anilam control panel with LCNC? To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Date: Friday, August 9, 2013, 7:17 PM On 10 Aug 2013, at 01:55, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > >  encoder ... > matrix > ... > LCD Have y