I recently purchased a cnc4pc C35 breakout board and three KL-4030 drivers for
my milling machine. I've got everything hooked up at the moment but I'm not
getting any motion out of the motors at all. I'm not using the RJ45 connector
on the driver end of the cable because I screwed up when
I have a number of projects where I have to thin down material for each part. I
generally create a single path and then just change the depth as needed.
However
what I'm wondering is if there's a way to have a single path drawn and then in
the code put something that would tell it to repeat
Thanks everyone for the suggestions and help. I really appreciate it.
Chris
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Is there a line of code I can put in my program that will reset the z axis to
zero after the program runs so that when I flip my part I don't have to touch
off again?
Chris
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In the past whenever I've machined holes they end up not perfectly round. I
wondered if part of that could be because of the backlash compensation or some
other setting that I have. I don't think my machine has that much play in it
that it would cause circles to come out like that.
Chris
I'm using my Harbor Freight X2 mini mill. I converted it to cnc not long ago. I
don't cut a lot of circles with it but when I do I noticed they are not
perfectly round. I'll check for binding on the different axis, but I've never
had a problem with them binding in the past, the gibs might need
I've been looking at making a complete switch to linux and I wanted to get some
input from the group. I've been using EMC to run my milling machine for a
couple of years now and I'd like to also start doing all of my cad design as
well as generating my machine code. Currently on my windows
Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I was hoping to stay in the open source
realm, rather than go the commercial route. I guess I could try something like
wine to run the windows app in linux and see if that will work, but in my past
experience it didn't usually work very well.
Chris
I tried loading NCPlot in ubuntu today using the wine application and it seems
to work, slightly buggy but fully functional. That was the main program that I
was concerned with because it's the program I use most for 2D code creation.
I'll give MeshCAM a try tomorrow and see how that one works.
on the linux partition. I
hadn't used it in a while for anything other than EMC and that was on a
different machine, so when I did the install on my windows laptop I didn't
allocate much space for it since I wasn't sure I'd do much more than just a
little bit of messing around.
Chris Reynolds
Owner
Isn't there an M code for repeating the program?
Chris Reynolds
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Subject: [Emc-users] Repeating a program
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
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I just downloaded the 10.04 live cd because I'm getting rea dy to setup a new
computer for my cnc machine and I was wondering if the component for using a
joystick was already included in that release? I was thinking that having a
joystick control would be really handy because of the location
I belong to that group, there is some interesting information there. I was
under the impression that during WWII using concrete in casting large machine
parts was used because of lack of raw materials, and fairly common. I've always
thought it would be fun to experiment with this technique, not
So I've been running my mini-mill with EMC2 now for almost 2 years, and I've
gotten to where I'm interested in having the spindle controlled by EMC2, as
well as possibly a tool changer. So I started reading the wiki about spindle
control, and I've been reading through the HAL manual, and quite
I should have been more specific. I'm using Harbor Freight X2 mini-mill.
www.builderofstuff.com/cnc-mill.html I was looking at a C6 board at cnc4pc
for motor control. I'm trying to further my understanding of EMC2 and it's
capabilities. I started using it a couple of years ago, but I never
A friend of mine gave me an RMV ST400 driver board and I was wondering if
anyone has had any experience with them and EMC2.
Chris
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I posted this question before but didn't see it show up. So please forgive me
if it did go through.
I received one of these boards from a friend of mine thinking that I would use
it with my mill and EMC2. However it appears that the board only works with the
serial port of the computer and not
I'm new to the group and I could use some help with a problem that I'm having.
I just built a new cnc machine and I keep running into a problem that I can't
figure out. I've been doing some test cuts,
problem is they always come up short on one end. I thought it was a
backlash problem so I put
From: Luc Claeys clae...@telenet.be
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 11:56:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] new to group
Hi Chris,
Chris Reynolds wrote:
I'm new to the group and I could use some help with a problem that I'm
I should say that I'm new to EMC so I'm sure there are many things about how
the program is used that I still don't understand.
Chris
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I'm not sure. I haven't tried that yet. If I move it to say x1 then zero it out
it won't let me go back to x-1
Chris
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I saw a video online of someone using an edge finding routine, not in emc, but
I was wondering if there is something similar in emc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NpC4Qlbu50is the video I was thinking
about.
Chris
Just a man, his shop, and a long list of unfinished projects...
Thank you for posting these. I downloaded them so I could try them out.
Chris
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:27:34PM -0800, Chris Reynolds wrote:
I saw a video online of someone using an edge finding routine, not
in emc, but I was wondering if there is something similar in emc.
I use probing
I've been running emc2 now for about four or five months. Other than get it
installed, set up my basic 3 axis machine, and run my nc files, I really
haven't done much experimenting with emc2. As I venture more and more into the
use of it I of course want to know more about it and it's
Anyone have any experience in using EMC with Linistepper driver boards? I was
wondering about the settings to use in EMC and was just curious if anyone else
had used them and would be willing to share their experiences and settings.
Chris
I have a quick question that I'm sure will be simple for one of the members out
there. I've been using emc now for about a year and I'm now running it on my
milling machine. I've got backlash set in the .ini file but I've noticed now
that when I'm cutting around a circle that it's not coming
I've been using EMC2 now for a while and I really like it. I just have a couple
of questions. A lot of the parts I'm making require tool changes, and what I've
found is that it would be really nice to have the program run a section, then
pause so I can jog the machine, change tools, touch off,
I have another gcode related question. Lets say I'm machining a one time part,
say that I'm making a D-bit type cutter, and I've machined it already on the
lathe and now I want to mill it down to the midpoint, and want to do it in
.005 increments. Is there a way of writing gcode where I can
Is there a good online reference or set of instructional materials for learning
about gcode and programming that I could check out in addition to the gcode
info on the emc page? I'm really wanting to learn how to get the most from my
machine and my programs and my knowledge is limited.
Chris
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone that replied to my question about
learning gcode. I really appreciate all the help and info that everyone passed
along.
Chris
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I just noticed something interesting. A lot of the times I use the keys x,y,z,a
to select which axis I want to setup, but I also have a tendency to go in to
gedit and change code when I need to. I usually set the caps lock on when I'm
writing the code as well. However I noticed when I went back
Where in the ini file do I specify what jog and max speeds I want to
automatically be set in Axis when I open it?
Chris
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I've been running emc2 all day today and every job has required a manual tool
change. What I do is simply divide up my program and end each section with M00
so it doesn't continue past that point, then I just hit escape, jog, change
tools, touch off, and then use run from here on the first line
Is there a code that can be put into a gcode file that when the program
finishes
it sets the z height to 0? I have some parts I mill that I mill one side down
so
far then flip the part and mill the other side down so far, it would be nice to
have the program automatically set the z height to
I've been having some accuracy problems and I'll admit I've never fully
understood all of the settings in the .ini file. But I'm getting some strange
things going on that I just can't seem to fix. Such as, setting an axis to 0,
then in MDI sending it to 1, it might come up .0015 short of 1, but
I have a question regarding the pocket hole script from the wiki page. When I
try using it I get an error message that says the start and end radius are off
by .001 which causes it to not run. Has anyone else encountered this and if so
how can I fix it?
Thanks,Chris
I'm hoping someone can chime in on the pocket hole script issue I was having
where it wouldn't run because the start and stop of the radius is off by .001.
I looked at the code but I'm not entirely sure where the fault lies. Any help
would be much appreciated.
Thanks,Chris
I just upgraded to the latest version of linuxcnc and I'm really digging it. I
hadn't upgraded in 7 years. I was first introduced to linux about 8 years ago
approximately, through my former job, and the only thing that I don't like
about it is that for someone like me who doesn't work with
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I recently posted a question about the pocket hole script not working because
the start and end
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