[Emc-users] Modbus TCP? Latency?

2013-08-30 Thread Anders Wallin
Hi all, I'm thinking about various control data-acquisition systems I want to build, with different requirements on speed performance. What's the status of Modbus TCP with linuxcnc right now? I found at least this wiki page: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ModbusToHal What I imagine

Re: [Emc-users] MTConnect

2013-08-30 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 08/30/2013 11:52 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: On 08/30/2013 09:38 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: Could you find a link to the source code? http://www.mtconnect.org/downloads/download-information/source-code-and-binaries-download.aspx I think the trick is to scroll down the page to the Login

Re: [Emc-users] MTConnect

2013-08-30 Thread Ted Hyde
Kirk, I think MTConnect would be a great addition to LCNC; I started to play with the building of an adapter shortly after MT was released at IMTS some years ago, but quickly got stalled. I have an MTConnect-compatible agent/adapter on my Mazak 410 machine, and it's pretty much a duplicate of

[Emc-users] Hal GUI

2013-08-30 Thread Todd Zuercher
Has anyone ever thought to try to make a GUI interface for HAL.  I was thinking maybe something loosely simmular to how a lot of PLC graphical editors work could be addapted?  I am not a programmer and I have no skills to try to help.  Just trying to put out an idea that maybe someone could run

Re: [Emc-users] Hal GUI

2013-08-30 Thread andy pugh
On 30 August 2013 20:26, Todd Zuercher zuerc...@embarqmail.com wrote: Has anyone ever thought to try to make a GUI interface for HAL. There have been a few attempts: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Eagle2HAL http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Crapahalic

Re: [Emc-users] MTConnect

2013-08-30 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/8/29 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com Is MTConnect something worth learning more about? Has anyone used it with LinuxCNC? http://www.amit-deshpande.com/2008/06/mtconnect-live.html -- Kirk Wallace What is the need of such API? /Sven

Re: [Emc-users] MTConnect

2013-08-30 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I would not know about a license issue. I gather it would be ok as it is on the Linuxcnc wiki and seem to be endorsed. Does anybody look at this kind of issues or is the responsibility left to the contributor? On 2013/08/30 05:16 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: On 08/29/2013 10:53 PM, Marius

Re: [Emc-users] MTConnect

2013-08-30 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 08/30/2013 11:38 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: Could you find a link to the source code? no source code found. no DTD no XSD. we should let the author reply, ask q's on his site , report usefullness here. regards TomP

Re: [Emc-users] MTConnect

2013-08-30 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Could you find a link to the source code? On 2013/08/30 06:30 PM, TJoseph Powderly wrote: Hello, I am interested in how MTConnect serves the data. I have asked the author. (too early for response yet ) I've been following the ZeroMQ discussions, which are concerned with message passing

Re: [Emc-users] MTConnect

2013-08-30 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 08/30/2013 09:38 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: Could you find a link to the source code? http://www.mtconnect.org/downloads/download-information/source-code-and-binaries-download.aspx I think the trick is to scroll down the page to the Login Form. At the bottom of the Login Form is No

Re: [Emc-users] MTConnect

2013-08-30 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Hello, I am interested in how MTConnect serves the data. I have asked the author. (too early for response yet ) I've been following the ZeroMQ discussions, which are concerned with message passing tools which Linuxcnc could use. http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all Has anyone gotten real values

Re: [Emc-users] MTConnect

2013-08-30 Thread Marius Liebenberg
There is a video here that explains how to use the sample stuff. Still not as useful as the Rock Hopper as far as I am concerned. Well at least for now. MTconnect might be valuable to very large concerns but I see no real advantage for the average job shop or manufacturer. Making machines

Re: [Emc-users] Total OT: VAT in Germany

2013-08-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
This looks like it explains it. http://www.nrwinvest.com/Business_Guide_englisch/The_tax_system/Value_Added_Tax/index.php On Fri, 8/30/13, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: [Emc-users] Total OT: VAT in Germany To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)

[Emc-users] Motor adapter plate thickness?

2013-08-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I'm getting quotes on having some NEMA34 pattern to 4 M8x1.25 on a 75mm circle adapter plates made in 6061 aluminum to mount in place of old DC servos which fit with rather loose tolerance with bolts through slotted holes in aluminum castings, about 1/4 thick. The old motors used shim plates to