On 01/02/2014 10:40 AM, Niemand Sonst wrote:
Will you localize it? Here in Germany we are used to give a , as
decimal separator, your GUI says 0,12 is not a number.
Ah, yes, the problem of localization. I've seen ISO committees come to
blows over this.
Check the Python locale module. There's
On 01/02/2014 05:06 PM, erik wrote:
Hi Kent,
Will we live to see a common worldwide date format AND measurement
system?;-)
You were right about the ambiguous dates. I changed it to a more clear
variant and start working on a better metric/imperial handling of my
program.
Erik:
For
On 12/24/2013 07:33 PM, Brian Morel wrote:
Is there any documentation on how you built the kernel modules packages?
I installed the test, but was getting 100k+ latency on the machine. I was
getting 10k ish on the same machine using the latest live cd. I've been
working on a customer
On 12/20/2013 11:11 AM, Eric Keller wrote:
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com
wrote:
Installing the rtai linux-image did the right thing on my machine - when i
turn the computer on, grub boots into the rtai kernel by default.
What is the output of ls
On 12/16/2013 01:02 PM, John Alexander Stewart wrote:
It's been a while since I wrote SLERPing code, but the project I wrote it
for used Quaternions, which I don't think LinuxCNC uses?? Quaternions
certainly made a lot of the internal maths easier. (code was in the
FreeWRL VRML/X3D browser)
On 12/16/2013 01:43 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
On 12/16/2013 01:02 PM, John Alexander Stewart wrote:
It's been a while since I wrote SLERPing code, but the project I wrote it
for used Quaternions, which I don't think LinuxCNC uses?? Quaternions
certainly made a lot of the internal maths easier
On 12/3/2013 12:41 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 02.12.13 18:49, Andrew wrote:
I installed pmount package and nothing changed. When I try to mount or open
a flash drive from 'linuxcnc' session: 'Failed to mount PENDRIVE. Not
Authorised'
Er, are you using the pmount command?
(On ubuntu, we
On 12/2/2013 9:42 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On 2 December 2013 13:23, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net
wrote:
Perhaps with the hacking taking place on motion and the path planner and
whatnot, these can migrate to HAL where it seems like they belong.
Doing that will break every
On 12/2/2013 11:49 AM, Andrew wrote:
2013/12/2 Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net
On 12/2/2013 12:08 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
Perhaps you can talk Charles into including the pmount package in his
distro.
I installed the minimum amount of packages I could to get LinuxCNC built
On 11/20/2013 5:11 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
On 11/20/2013 3:10 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
On 11/20/2013 2:35 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
RCN already has some switches to do part of this (see --spl and
...
I was thinking the default would be to use the cached files while
On 11/20/2013 2:35 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
What do you have in mind for an alternative approach? Looking for local
copies of directories/files before hitting the Internet?
I thought about this and chatted with RCN about some options, and the
following approach seems reasonable and
On 11/17/2013 5:18 PM, Bertho Stultiens wrote:
On 11/17/2013 10:16 PM, Tony Zampini wrote:
...
So is it your recommendation that we *always* use units after all
numeric values, even if we only plan to use, say, inches throughout a
program?
If you want your program to be portable, then
On 10/30/2013 7:47 AM, Bertho Stultiens wrote:
Hi all,
Every time I had to write a CNC-mill program using G-codes I got annoyed
by the archaic format and syntax. Especially when needing to convert
positional data from mil to mm, having recurring patterns and then also
trying to keep track of
On 11/16/2013 11:16 AM, Michael Haberler wrote:
Hi Paul,
Am 16.11.2013 um 16:03 schrieb Паша Сечко bronetemkinpono...@gmail.com:
Hello, I've managed to run LinuxCNC on a Freescale i.MX6 board with a
custom Xenomai kernel and rootfs from Raspbian. Long story short, I want to
configure
On 10/30/2013 7:47 AM, Bertho Stultiens wrote:
Hi all,
Every time I had to write a CNC-mill program using G-codes I got annoyed
by the archaic format and syntax.
Archaic? How could you say that? Why it's 10 years younger than I am.
Oh, wait
I looked for a meta compiler or generic
On 10/30/2013 9:06 AM, Bertho Stultiens wrote:
For a future as a secondary/pluggable interpreter, it would be required
to finalize the grammar, discuss required built-in functionality,
discuss how to handle rotational axes and get a grip on all bugs.
It seems to me your to-do list is relevant
On 10/30/2013 2:14 PM, Bertho Stultiens wrote:
Some (simple) functions may become built-ins once it is established what
common requirements are.
I like the way you think:-)
Regards,
Kent
--
Android is increasing in
On 10/29/2013 6:44 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
That top one looks exactly like the Acra.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27748767@N08/sets/72157637075510895/
Andy:
Did you notice the roll-over message in the header on those pictures?
If you have a manual for one, I'd love to have a copy, even if
On 10/28/2013 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
...
What do I use to translate that .igs to a format I can view?
Does the file contain a part model (e.g. 3D) or a drawing (e.g. 2D)?
IGES Viewer (http://igsviewer.com/) is pretty decent free 3D viewer but
it was written for MS Windows. I haven't
On 10/25/2013 1:00 PM, Dave Cole wrote:
and see if they lose
position, get excessively hot, self destruct, etc.
You mean like the MOSFETs popping at the end of this clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VyduGaUq1g
or the connectors catching on fire at the end of this clip
On 10/24/2013 11:13 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 24 October 2013 11:05:25 Kent Reed did opine:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
...
Note the isolcpus=1 on the end of the 'linux' line, it has to be hand
edited into that file after
On 10/4/2013 7:03 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
The Intel Galileo, with Mini PCIe slot and Arduino shield pin headers.
400Mhz Quark SoC with 256MB RAM etc. Programmable with the standard
Arduino IDE, is running Yocto Linux so that should be changeable.
On 9/22/2013 10:11 AM, Mark Wendt wrote:
Kent,
No worries there. Business, financial or health-related transactions are
probably never gonna happen on my machine controller... ;-)
Mark
Same here, but ya never know. Reading this list, I get the impression
some folks are determined to
On 9/17/2013 5:39 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On 17 September 2013 08:32, a k pccncmach...@gmail.com wrote:
hi
as right now 12.30 am pacific time my post -retrofit?-- is not show up on
list but you mention about post -retrofit?-
how it can happen?
Gmail doesn't show you your own emails to mailing
On 9/17/2013 10:21 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
...
I found it helpful to change my emc-users and emc-developers
subscription options so the sourceforge list server acknowledges
receipt of each of my postings.
Oops, since it's possible you heavily filter your incoming email, I
should have
On 9/11/2013 3:44 PM, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
On 09/11/2013 08:47 AM, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
On 09/11/2013 08:28 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
You need libreadline-dev. dpkg-checkbuilddeps will tell you.
Thanks, now Tcl and Tk is missing.
Looks like I have to figure out all the dependencies...
On 9/11/2013 10:39 AM, Matt Shaver wrote:
I might (hopefully) be doing a few new linuxcnc retrofit projects so I
was wondering what everyone likes these days for motherboards. May basic
requirements are:
MiniITX Form Factor
(1) PCI slot for a Mesa 5i25 (or alternatively a PCI-E slot for a
On 8/10/2013 5:19 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On 10 August 2013 21:49, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net
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
On 8/10/2013 6:42 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On 10 August 2013 22:34, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com 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
On 8/9/2013 10:03 AM, Paul Lacatus wrote:
On 09.08.2013 15:17, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
On 8/8/2013 11:00 PM, Paul Lacatus wrote:
...
You can have it , it is not copyrighted ;) . The issue is that I don't
understand the problem with realtime error. The load on the linuxcnc is
small even
On 8/7/2013 8:26 AM, Paul Lacatus wrote:
On 07.08.2013 15:03, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
2013/8/7 Paul Lacatus p...@paul-lacatus.ro
Your idea is interesting but an Atom board is at a fraction of BB cost
that is about 50 Euro ? And what about parallel ports on atom boards ? I
will check. Thank you
On 7/20/2013 5:36 AM, Michael Haberler wrote:
Gentlemen - while I really appreciate your most interesting war stories about
paper tapes and punched cards, let me shift attention back to my question:
would some folks please actually share their large G-code programs with me?
This would
On 7/19/2013 5:33 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
On Thu, 7/18/13, John Kasunich jmkasun...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] query: how long was your longes G-Code program
ever?
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2013, 7:48 PM
On Thu, Jul
On 6/16/2013 6:57 AM, Ed Nisley wrote:
On 06/16/2013 04:24 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
current printer implementations just drag the spool
with the filament feed capstan
It's brutally simple: the filament drive hauls filament through a
flexible tube that arches between a holder at the
On 6/9/2013 9:08 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Looking at its voltage output, with the motor disabled so there is no
feedback,off = 0.125 volts
click fwd button= 0.382 diff= 0.257
click + button = 0.942 diff= 0.560
click + again= 1.584 diff=
On 5/28/2013 3:50 AM, Michael Haberler wrote:
well it runs off an SD card root filesystem to start with, and Ethernet is in
place so yes
Since Anders mentioned datalogging...
I think I would use the USB port for the purpose because the Beaglebones
employ microSD cards, not SD cards. Maybe
On 5/28/2013 11:43 AM, Michael Haberler wrote:
Am 28.05.2013 um 16:35 schrieb Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com:
On 5/28/2013 3:50 AM, Michael Haberler wrote:
well it runs off an SD card root filesystem to start with, and Ethernet is
in place so yes
Since Anders mentioned datalogging
On 5/19/2013 3:11 PM, Bruce Layne wrote:
...
I've been getting the Intel D525MW motherboards and I'm liking them so
far. I'm putting 4GB of RAM on them so they shouldn't need to swap to
the 64 GB solid state drive. All of that makes for a compact and fairly
easy installation in an
On 5/14/2013 3:10 PM, John Stewart wrote:
Greg;
is the inability to import VRML 2.0 though trueSpace can export VRML 1.0
and 2.0 - but who cares about VRML anymore? ;-)
VRML 1.0 is dead, VRML 2.0 is the basis of X3D, which is still used, and is
the basis of some interesting behind the
On 5/12/2013 3:39 AM, Lars Andersson wrote:
On 5/11/2013 3:52 PM, Andrew wrote:
An IO pin can be connected unless there’s an OUT pin on the signal
An OUT pin can be connected only if there are no other OUT or IO pins on
the signal
Regards,
Kent
Yes,
I have read that too. I fail to
On 5/12/2013 6:02 AM, Lars Andersson wrote:
The symbol == is new to me.
Lars:
'=' denotes bidirectional signal flow and is the symbol intended to
correspond to IO pins as opposed to IN or OUT pins.
Remember, though, the quote from the docs in my earlier message---these
direction-indicator
On 5/11/2013 3:52 PM, Andrew wrote:
I guess that == might be wrong
Quoting from the Basic HAL Tutorial section on net:
The command net creates a connection between a signal and and one or
more pins. If the signal does not exist net creates the new signal. This
replaces the need to use the
On 5/10/2013 3:05 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On 10 May 2013 03:28, Norton Allen al...@huarp.harvard.edu wrote:
In this remote configuration, at the moment I do not have access to the
graphical display. Is there a way to alter the configuration so I can
start up from the command line without a GUI
On 5/9/2013 12:32 PM, doug metzler wrote:
the image is .JPG. I am sorry I don't have the machine in front of me
right now so I'll have to work on this when I get home (I realize that it
didn't work is the wrong thing to say here :-) )
I will follow Andy's posted instructions, then will check
On 5/9/2013 1:08 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
I'm looking for rollers, wheels or bearings with a pointed edge to run in a
slot, but all I find are V groove wheels made to run along a pointed edge
rail.
I'm building a XY gantry from 4040 extrusion and some delrin or urethane
wheels that can
On 5/3/2013 3:29 PM, Ben Potter wrote:
Thanks for checking them! After spending a while cross checking all my
calculations I found the problem, I'd stuffed up the final conversion from
km to miles (multiplied instead of divided).
At least you didn't smash your orbiter into Mars as a result :-)
On 5/2/2013 6:18 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On 2 May 2013 05:47, Bruce Layne linux...@thinkingdevices.com wrote:
I'm looking for a robust method to connect a LinuxCNC device to a WiFi
network.
Why WiFi? assuming that your LinuxCNC machine is powered by the mains,
you might find Homeplug to be a
On 4/30/2013 3:20 PM, Pete Matos wrote:
I also find it
interesting that there is so much resistance to electric vehicles in the
world when so many of the largest and most powerful vehicles are moved with
electric power.
In a word, batteries. Back in the 1970s the weak link in the national
On 4/29/2013 5:11 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- On Sun, 4/28/13, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote:
ad 1): Kent was the first to try and confirmed the BBB does
NOT boot this image; however, it doesnt boot the BBW
Angstrom card supplied with the BBW either, so we're in good
company
On 4/29/2013 7:35 AM, Michael Haberler wrote:
Greg -
Am 29.04.2013 um 11:11 schrieb Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com:
--- On Sun, 4/28/13, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote:
ad 1): Kent was the first to try and confirmed the BBB does
NOT boot this image; however, it doesnt boot
On 4/29/2013 9:28 AM, Dave wrote:
Micro HDMI - no sweat ... Micro HDMI to HDMI for $5.00 on Amazon.. The
brick and mortar stores around me also attempt robbery when it comes to
cables
:-)
On 4/22/2013 2:57 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
On 4/22/2013 1:07 PM, Matt Shaver wrote:
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:23:50 -0700
Claude Zervas cla...@utlco.com wrote:
I just tried to order the new beaglebone from Newark and they've
already ran out of stock... shoot.
I called they are getting 40,000
On 4/23/2013 9:35 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Jon Elson wrote:
Ralph Stirling wrote:
One show stopper I found with the RPi was the high probability
of SD card corruption during power cycles (power failure without
full OS shutdown first). Is the BeagleBone Black immune to this
problem? The
On 4/23/2013 7:34 AM, John Thornton wrote:
The biggest problem is none of the items after the warning are actually
used by LinuxCNC. When the subheading was there it implied that LinuxCNC
actually used them somehow. IMHO each one of those entries really
belongs with what ever component might
On 4/22/2013 6:49 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On 22 April 2013 19:33, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com wrote:
We both suffer from the problem
that the size and complexity of a HAL diagram is potentially unbounded.
Not just you.
My job basically revolves around peering at Simulink diagrams
On 4/22/2013 10:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 22 April 2013 22:25:37 Kent A. Reed did opine:
On 4/16/2013 7:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
clipping out the previous discussion about documenting LinuxCNC
configurations
There was a thingy that I assume worked, I installed it last fall
On 4/22/2013 7:05 AM, John Thornton wrote:
Did you skip past the Warning?
On 4/22/2013 2:06 AM, Rudy du Preez wrote:
I find pages 20 to 23 of the Integrators manual V2.5, 2013-03-26 very
confusing:
Page 20 is headed 3.2.10.1 Homing.
It discusses HOME related parameters and the suddenly
On 4/22/2013 7:01 AM, Rudy du Preez wrote:
22-April: Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com
How can the second value (offset) first be subtracted from the
computed value (in volts) and the be divided by the first value
(scale)?
Offset is also measured in volts, I guess.
At the bottom of page
On 4/22/2013 10:47 AM, Michael Haberler wrote:
just noted the Black BeagleBoard (sequel to the original) is becoming
available with a RSP of $45
main differences to original BeagleBoard:
- 512MB vs 256MB main memory
- on-board HDMI - no cape required
- on-board 2GB flash
- the '3D
On 4/16/2013 7:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 16 April 2013 19:05:57 andy pugh did opine:
On 16 April 2013 10:49, propcoder marius.alks...@gmail.com wrote:
electronics (power, drivers, custom electronics with documentation and
all datasheets, cabling, signals, computer,..)
I don't do
On 4/22/2013 1:07 PM, Matt Shaver wrote:
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:23:50 -0700
Claude Zervas cla...@utlco.com wrote:
I just tried to order the new beaglebone from Newark and they've
already ran out of stock... shoot.
I called they are getting 40,000 on May 13, so I ordered one. I
should have
On 4/19/2013 12:40 PM, John Thornton wrote:
I created an example of a tool changer with pyvcp buttons to act as
inputs... it is in this thread.
http://linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/30-cnc-machines/25790-petes-cincinatti-arrow-500-retrofit?start=50#32219
Tn will only put the integer
On 4/19/2013 1:24 PM, Michael Haberler wrote:
Am 19.04.2013 um 18:46 schrieb Andrewparallel.kinemat...@gmail.com:
2013/4/19 Michael Haberlermai...@mah.priv.at
The information on ARM ports is atm bit littered over the emc-developers
mailing list, which I suggest to read back to last fall,
On 4/18/2013 7:26 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On 18 April 2013 08:48, Gregg Eshelman g_ala...@yahoo.com wrote:
How are molds for plastic reflectors machined? They have a large number of
sharp edged corner cubes.
Possibly forged with a pyramidal punch?
Take a look at
On 4/11/2013 6:56 PM, Kenneth Lerman wrote:
I don't think this is rocket science. (Having worked on the Lunar Module
project, I have a chance of recognizing rocket science.)
Come on, Ken, the rocket-science part is dead easy. When you say F=ma
you've said it all.
Rocket engineering, on the
On 4/10/2013 8:56 AM, andy pugh wrote:
I have bought a Renishaw touch-probe.
I infer you bought only the probe and not the receiver.
It has an inductive interface to connect to the controller, described
in patent GB2025073
It appears that an LC circuit in the probe is shorted out by the
On 4/10/2013 10:01 AM, Daniel Rogge wrote:
I'd like to weigh in with the following test:
Running LCNC 2.5, copy the sim/axis config to your local configs, then change
the max_acceleration for axis 0, 1, and 2 to 1.0 (previously 100):
MAX_ACCELERATION = 1.0
Then run both of
On 4/10/2013 8:59 AM, Marcus Bowman wrote:
There seem to be 4 models of E350N board. The GA-E350N (rev 1.0) the GA-350N
(rev 3.0) and the GA-E350N Win8 (rev 1.0) all seem to have a parallel port,
but the GA-E350N-USB3 (rev 1.0) does not. The -USB3 has a different chipset
(AMD 50M as opposed
On 4/10/2013 2:57 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
Hello!
I am looking for a simple and cheap touch probe so that I can fix it near
spindle and find material surface in all 3 directions - X, Y and Z.
Hitting Google with diy touch probe turned up a number of candidates.
You could start with
On 4/9/2013 12:14 AM, propcoder wrote:
Dave, thank you for Gigabyte mini-ITX GA-E350N. It is a good candidate.
As an addendum to this discussion, I got a chance (doesn't everyone
carry a LiveUSB stick in their pocket just in case?) to run
latency-test on a substantially similar motherboard,
On 4/9/2013 12:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Anyway, it looks like it will run on the 2.6.0-pre just fine now.
Gene:
Glad to hear it works now. At this point I think I'll climb back into my
hole before i start hazarding guesses that may serve only to muddy the
waters. :-)
As for your
On 4/9/2013 1:49 PM, Jason Burton wrote:
Combination gearbox and drive tensioner for something like a paper
manufacturing line perhaps?
On Apr 9, 2013 12:03 PM, Eric Keller eekel...@psu.edu wrote:
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Daniel Rogge dro...@tormach.com wrote:
A librarian friend
Gentle persons:
A few weeks ago, Brian pointed out that a page on the Wiki
(http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InkscapeHowto) was out of date
with respect to its description of gcodetools, which is now up to 1.7.
Since Brian has already edited that page, I have taken it on myself to
go
On 4/8/2013 7:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
In the meantime, the latest, should work exactly code (and does on a 2.5.2
install in sim mode) is in the Genes-os9-stf/Gcode/cocking_piece_base.ngc
of my web page in the sig. 2 or 5 not exactly right calculations fixed,
more debugging some code
On 4/5/2013 12:39 PM, dave wrote:
Hi all,
The wiki for buttress threads states the buttress threads tend to fail
because only the first 4 threads are load bearing.
In contrast to that is:
www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA483296
Which uses them in a munition where failure us not
On 4/5/2013 5:46 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- On Fri, 4/5/13, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/4/5 dave dengv...@charter.net
Hi all,
The wiki for buttress threads states the buttress
threads tend to fail
because only the first 4 threads are load bearing.
Not really
On 4/4/2013 9:02 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
There was a site that showed using the boards and motors from a pair of
floppy drives to build a robot, but it vanished.
Google returns plenty of hits on the search phrase floppy stepper robot.
If you remember the URL of the vanished site (and you
continuing our dialog about the latency spikes bjørn is observing with his
Intel D525MW MB
On 3/28/2013 5:23 AM, bjørn wrote:
that I bought the power supply together with the D525MW board. here are a
link -
http://www.ebay.com/itm/160721043666?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
On 3/28/2013 9:04 AM, TJoseph Powderly wrote:
does not appear on mail list yet is timestamped as 1st reply to thread, why?
Original Message
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] tach feedback
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:57:03 -0500
From: TJoseph Powderlytjt...@gmail.com
To: Enhanced
On 3/28/2013 7:56 AM, BRIAN GLACKIN wrote:
G64 does this for you without changing the code.
See
http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode/gcode.html#sec:G64
for more details.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Frank Tkalcevic
fr...@franksworkshop.com.au wrote:
Does anyone know of a script
On 3/28/2013 9:57 AM, TJoseph Powderly wrote:
On 03/28/2013 08:17 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
On 3/28/2013 9:04 AM, TJoseph Powderly wrote:
does not appear on mail list yet is timestamped as 1st reply to thread, why?
Original Message
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] tach feedback
Date
On 3/25/2013 9:56 AM, Bjørn wrote:
snipping off previous discussion now i have tested: boot with isolcpu(big
improvement in general latency but still spikes)
turn of smi, (improvement in general latency but still spikes)
'idle=poll' and 'nohlt'(little or no effect)
acpi = off and api=off
On 3/23/2013 8:56 PM, BRIAN GLACKIN wrote:
The wiki discusses gcodetools v1.2 . Its already upto v1.7 making the wiki
out of date.
The Wiki is out of date on many topics related to CAD/CAM :-(
My plan is to figure it out then see what I can do about
updating the wiki. Gotta figure it
On 3/18/2013 1:21 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On 18 March 2013 14:08, kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote:
How do I calibrate it
Borrow a clamp-on multimeter?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/dc-ac-current-clamp-multimeter-629713
At that price, why not buy it?
Of course the OP said calibrate. I come from a
On 3/4/2013 6:23 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
2013/3/3 Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com:
On 3/3/2013 4:54 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
Hello!
I would appreciate, if someone could advice me about the reasons of
the error message I am receiving.
I receive it with any sample config I tried (also
On 3/3/2013 4:54 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
Hello!
I would appreciate, if someone could advice me about the reasons of
the error message I am receiving.
I receive it with any sample config I tried (also generic stepper_mm
and also sim configs) and I have also reinstalled LinuxCNC several
On 3/3/2013 2:15 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On 3 March 2013 19:02, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com wrote:
A convenient command line invocation to gain access from a remote
machine is ssh -X LinuxCNC machine name or IP
I get that error with that command.
In some cases, ssh -Y ... is better
On 3/3/2013 3:57 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
A very quick way to find out if the X server is able to display a window
from a client (the client/server terminology is backwards from the usual
meaning) is to run xclock. You can start and stop this in less than a
second
to see if the clock shows up on
On 3/3/2013 9:37 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Kent A. Reed wrote:
As for xhost, that is an evil program. It should have been banished long
ago. The whole point of X-tunneling through ssh is to avoid the gigantic
security holes punched through systems by hacks like xhost.
If you are behind
On 2/24/2013 3:07 PM, andy pugh wrote:
https://www.emfcamp.org/wave
I rather think that we should try to do a talk/demo of LinuxCNC there.
Seems like a great idea, Andy, especially since the Motorschiff Stubnitz
is billed as an atmospheric venue (including three apparently
well-stocked
On 2/21/2013 6:33 PM, N. Christopher Perry wrote:
For CAD I've been using SolveSpace with nice results. It's a little limited
(no helical sweeps and can't import geometry) but I is the only stable open
source parametric tool I've found. It can also export G-code, but you still
need to put
On 2/19/2013 5:48 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
it's quite possible to maintain
equanimity in the face of deteriorating netiquette, and even fake
tolerance of it.
I love it! Thanks for putting a smile on my face.
Regards,
Kent
On 2/18/2013 10:05 AM, John Thornton wrote:
No, the forum is like the IRC and a separate communications medium that
many prefer.
John:
All my email---and we're talking three different accounts---passes into
my client, which functions as a virtual one-stop-shop.
As it is, I barely have time
On 2/19/2013 1:31 PM, John Thornton wrote:
The forum is
active enough that since it has been turned on there have been 29,984
messages in 3150 subjects.
Wow. That's a huge increase over what I saw the last time I looked,
which I admit was donkeys' years ago. Guess I should sweep through it
On 2/16/2013 10:03 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
I tried googling, but all I can find, is located on the other side of the
pond.
Thanks in advance!
Gentle persons:
My idle curiosity has gotten the better of me.
I see statements like Viesturs' a lot.
Is the problem simply that European suppliers
On 2/13/2013 11:18 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Hell, even the reference to Fred Wilma dates me, I haven't seen a
Flintstones program on tv in a good 30 years, so I know there are folks on
this list who don't have a clue about them, or Howdy Doody either for that
matter. Magic twanger?
On 1/21/2013 8:53 PM, John Stewart wrote:
Can anyone tell me why it is so difficult to configure a G540 to run with a
5i25?
John, you're obviously frustrated but I don't see much since in the way
of traffic between you and the rest of us about what you are telling
pncconf and what you are
Viesturs:
A quick check with a search engine tells me there are tons of
discussions of the relative merits of different heating techniques
including opinionated folk living in extreme climates like northern
Canada and Alaska, just to cite North America.
If I were adding a heater to an
On 1/5/2013 6:37 AM, Bruce Layne wrote:
That was great. It's great marketing too. I had been buying metal from
a number of places but had somehow misplaced Online Metals, but after
laughing at their joke products for metalworkers, I checked their prices
and they looked easier to shop and/or
Gentle persons:
Too bad this was an April Fool's joke (I know, me it took a while to
notice it, but I've been kind of busy). I could really use a case of
Cut Away!, not to mention their MetalDhruker.
http://www.onlinemetals.com/cutaway.cfm
Regards,
Kent
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