[Emc-users] Calling Christian (AKA Integrator's meeting)

2013-10-17 Thread Sven Wesley
No response from Christian Stöveken lately, anyone knows when we boot up on saturday? /S -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI,

Re: [Emc-users] Extremely confused about axis and home, please help...

2013-10-17 Thread Richard Thornton
Thanks John! Could you please take a look at http://www.carving-cnc.com/cnc6040-series/cnc-6040z-s80-new-router-engraver-drilling-and-milling-machine.html and let me know whether you think the longest axis should be X or Y? Best Regards Richard -- Message: 5 Date:

Re: [Emc-users] Extremely confused about axis and home, please help...

2013-10-17 Thread andy pugh
On 17 October 2013 11:21, Richard Thornton richie.thorn...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please take a look at http://www.carving-cnc.com/cnc6040-series/cnc-6040z-s80-new-router-engraver-drilling-and-milling-machine.html and let me know whether you think the longest axis should be X or Y? It is

Re: [Emc-users] Extremely confused about axis and home, please help...

2013-10-17 Thread John Thornton
It really doesn't make any difference which is X and Y so long as they connected to move in the correct direction for positive and negative moves which align with the Cartesian axes. The arrow points are the direction for positive moves.

Re: [Emc-users] OT, Pic controller? needed for high school play

2013-10-17 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Bruce, Here is a link to light sequencing and DMX decoding using an Arduino: http://makezine.com/2011/11/01/light-sequencing-and-decoding-dmx-with-an-ard uino/ I personally do not know much about theater lighting but thought this might be of interest. If you are located in the US, the Arduino

Re: [Emc-users] Extremely confused about axis and home, please help...

2013-10-17 Thread Robert Shell
In the past I have always chosen the longest axis to be my X axis.. and for this machine I would also ... I do this because most of my work tends to be longer in width than in height. So from the drawing to the machine, everything is in the same orientation. If you work consists of something

Re: [Emc-users] Perceived issues with LinuxCNC

2013-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 October 2013 09:25:21 Dave Cole did opine: On 10/16/2013 9:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: 'm guessing a lot more than that lathe costs ... Yeah, I've heard rumors of 30 large. I'll limp along on this for that sort of money. I can make me a polio style brace for far less than

Re: [Emc-users] Extremely confused about axis and home, please help...

2013-10-17 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Your little gantry is the simplest for operators/programmers to understand the tool motion. The tool and machine components move in the same direction. The cincinnati gantries I have seen have the Y axis as the long axis. The X axis across the short length of the gantry table. This may be a

Re: [Emc-users] Extremely confused about axis and home, please help...

2013-10-17 Thread Dave Cole
My approach ... Put the table in position and walk up to it like you are going to operate it... The bottom left hand corner - the corner nearest your left hand should be the origin. X increases to the right. Y increases away from you. If you do that you will have a standard layout and

Re: [Emc-users] OT, Pic controller? needed for high school play

2013-10-17 Thread Dave Cole
It seems that the budget for the play is a lot greater than I am used to for HS Plays.. Holland, MI is a nice city and apparently doing very well! (I'm in Northern Indiana) I'd probably use one of these controllers if I had to buy one new. They don't get much cheaper than this but it is

[Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Don Stanley
Hi All; I am planning another CNC conversion. Is there now a better processor choice the Intel D525MW ? Thanks -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Don What did you find wrong with the D525MW? I use them all the time. The latest is the D2700 series but I have found no real improvement that I could notice at least. On 2013/10/17 07:03 PM, Don Stanley wrote: Hi All; I am planning another CNC conversion. Is there now a better processor

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Don Stanley
Marius: The D525mw's are working great. I have used them for a few years and wanted to avoid building with outdated or obsolete stuff. Thanks for your input. Don On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.zawrote: Don What did you find wrong with the D525MW?

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread billy
Probably the fact that the D525MW is EOL and hard to find at a good price. On Oct 17, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.za wrote: Don What did you find wrong with the D525MW? I use them all the time. The latest is the D2700 series but I have found no real improvement

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Dave Cole
The Intel 2500, 2700 and 2800 boards have the PowerVR video core on board that is not compatible with anything other than Windows 7 32 bit and maybe Windows 8. http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intelgma3600/sb/CS-033597.htm Intel screwed up on that series of boards and they realized it

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread andy pugh
On 17 October 2013 18:53, Dave Cole linuxcncro...@gmail.com wrote: The Intel 2500, 2700 and 2800 boards have the PowerVR video core on board that is not compatible with anything other than Windows 7 32 bit and maybe Windows 8. I wouldn't go _quite_ that far. I have a DN2800 as the development

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Andrew
2013/10/17 Dave Cole linuxcncro...@gmail.com Intel is coming out with a new series of MITX boards, hopefully this fall that has Intel HD graphics on board and not the PowerVR core That's great! I launched LinuxCNC sim on a laptop with 1.5GHz Celeron 1007 (Ivy Bridge, Intel HD) and it starts

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Strange, I ran LCNC on the 2700 and 2800 boards. I can still get D525 as many as I desire. On 2013/10/17 07:53 PM, Dave Cole wrote: The Intel 2500, 2700 and 2800 boards have the PowerVR video core on board that is not compatible with anything other than Windows 7 32 bit and maybe Windows 8.

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Sven Wesley
Oh, the never ending D525MW debate. I bought a few after all the good words here at the list. They are all crap, I can't even use them to show cartoons for my kids. /S 2013/10/17 Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.za Strange, I ran LCNC on the 2700 and 2800 boards. I can still get D525

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Tom Easterday
This isn't quite right. You can run LinuxCNC on the 2X00 series boards just fine, but out of the box you won't have graphics acceleration. This is still usable, but is slower than one would like. Once you install Ubuntu 10.04LTS you will be greeted with a new hardware driver to install which

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Maybe not for showing cartoons but as machine controllers, they work just fine. On 2013/10/17 08:44 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: Oh, the never ending D525MW debate. I bought a few after all the good words here at the list. They are all crap, I can't even use them to show cartoons for my kids. /S

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Sven Wesley
If you search/google the mailing list you will find my benchmarks for those machines. I can save you some time and tell the result: No way. /S 2013/10/17 Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.za Maybe not for showing cartoons but as machine controllers, they work just fine. On 2013/10/17

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Billy Huddleston
I would like to get one or two more D525's at a decent price.. but.. everything I've found is around $180.00 mark or better.. more than the original $79.00 I use to get them at. If anyone knows where to get them at a good price.. let me know. On 10/17/2013 02:27 PM, Marius Liebenberg wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Extremely confused about axis and home, please help...

2013-10-17 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:19:35 -0400, you wrote: My approach ... Put the table in position and walk up to it like you are going to operate it... The bottom left hand corner - the corner nearest your left hand should be the origin. X increases to the right. Y increases away from you. If you

Re: [Emc-users] Extremely confused about axis and home, please help...

2013-10-17 Thread Charles Buckley
This might vary if you have a gantry. I have found back/right/top makes for easier workpiece loading in an enclosed gantry. Charles On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:19:35 -0400, you wrote: My approach ... Put the table in

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 10/17/2013 11:53 AM, Dave Cole wrote: The Intel 2500, 2700 and 2800 boards have the PowerVR video core on board that is not compatible with anything other than Windows 7 32 bit and maybe Windows 8. http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intelgma3600/sb/CS-033597.htm Intel screwed up on

Re: [Emc-users] Another Mill Conversion.

2013-10-17 Thread Dave Cole
On 10/17/2013 6:53 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: On 10/17/2013 11:53 AM, Dave Cole wrote: The Intel 2500, 2700 and 2800 boards have the PowerVR video core on board that is not compatible with anything other than Windows 7 32 bit and maybe Windows 8.