gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, March 10, 2012 07:12:59 PM Tony Zampini did opine:
Dave,
It's not your bad luck, I had the exact same problem when I tried
installing the 10.04 Live CD a while ago. Tried multiple times
installing from the CD, and each time it failed at a different point in
I know it's tongue-in-cheek, but since several people have mentioned this I
thought I'd reply.
EMC corp has a trademark in a very related field. I don't recall the specific
area, but it had to do with computer hardware and a particular area of computer
software (backup most likely). Though
Ian W. Wright wrote:
What about the old idea of putting a light bulb in series
with the mains? Would this have a useful effect?
I think you've got it backwards.
The idea is to use a light bulb as a bleed resistor, and coincidentally
as a dangerous voltages present indicator :)
Light
Rando Sauvage wrote:
Hi,
I am an EMC2 user and currently I am doing some pieces which take
several hours to mill.
So, I would like to run my CNC while I am not at home (eg while I am
at work), but still want to take an eye on my CNC through an IP camera
+ *get the possibility to remote
Tom Easterday wrote:
On Apr 4, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Dave wrote:
I thought that the CPU that was isolated was no longer able to be
monitored for load via the system monitor software tools. That is the
way it was with Ubuntu 9.1 also. 10.04 worked so well I didn't pay a
lot of attention to
Viesturs Lācis wrote:
2011/4/1spad...@sover.net:
The isolcpus parameter used to be a mask, but now it's a list (there are
things called cpusets now as well, which are way cool but unused by us).
You could isolate cores 1 and 3 with isolcpus=1,3.
All that isolcpus does is to tell the
Steve Blackmore wrote:
That would be good - please show where isolcpus command
should go with a clear example.
It's been discussed by the linux guru's at length but as yet nobody has
explained to us dummies in plain language how to or where to implement
it:(
Well, there isn't a step by
Ed Nisley wrote:
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 15:33 +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote:
The custom kernel says edit menu.lst - doesn't exist any more
The Grub2 file is /boot/grub/grub.cfg. It looks different, but gets
basically the same treatment as Grub1's menu.lst.
But it's actually worse
Rafael Skodlar wrote:
I think that this suggestion would work here too, because it was
mentioned that running EMC on a virtual machine will have enormous
jitter. With all due respect to members of EMC community, I doubt that
we can fix that, so I think that Your second suggestion on
Les Newell wrote:
Thanks. I think I will have to go down that route because ClassicLadder
is being a real CPU hog. Without the CL GUI loaded my average CPU load
with Axis running is 20%. With Modbus enabled and the ClassicLadder GUI
running, CPU load averages 80%.
I haven't looked at the
Joel Jacobs wrote:
Ok, found something interesting. I left the isolcpus=1 in grub and
re-enabled hyper-threading and latency topped out around 11.2us with
acceptable performance. I thought it should be fixed so ran EMC2 and
after a few hours the error tripped again. Here is the details from
Michael Jones wrote:
I am about to start an upgrade to my system and am wondering if anyone has
already done this and has some pointers, or better yet, a detailed how-to.
How about a G54 stepconf file:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/uploads/G540.stepconf
Copy the file into ~/emc2/configs, run
Viesturs Lācis wrote:
Wow, that is great news! I think that first few precedents are the
hardest part here - we should see even more apps on Linux once the ice
has started to move.
Unfortunately I am afraid that SolidWorks licence will not be cheaper
for Linux users and still will be in +10K
Kirk Wallace wrote:
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 14:19 -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
... snip
The standard configuration seems to work, which provides 8 bits out, 8
bits in, 3 10-bit analogs in, 2 MPG in, LCD out (not tested yet).
Currently, I am working on a pyVCP panel (similar to a DRO app) to
Kirk Wallace wrote:
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 19:03 -0500, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
... snip
One problem is that the component load can crash by sending a loop of
carriage returns. The only way to recover is to power off the PC and
start over. I think it has to do with the serial port
Mark Wendt wrote:
On 02/28/2011 08:56 AM, Moses McKnight wrote:
[snip]
Sounds like standard ethernet frames. I would imagine they would use
standard frames because ethernet hardware is expecting that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_frame
Moses
Almost, except that
Kirk Wallace wrote:
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 19:45 -0800, Doug wrote:
I believe I understand. File should read.
loadrt charge_pump
# net estop-out charge-pump.enable iocontrol.0.user-enable-out
net signal_name master slaves
net cp charge-pump.out parport.0.pin-17-out
Roland Jollivet wrote:
Hi all
I'm trying to figure something out;
With a servo type system using quadrature feedback, I see that *the EMC ini
file uses two variables, FERROR and MIN_FERROR to define acceptable
following error for each axis. Think of MIN_FERROR as the following error
Roland Jollivet wrote:
I see. And is the time stamp used as an integral part of the EMC
calculation? Or rather, does the Pluto interface for example, also supply
the same info?
What I'm also wanting to know is;
If a system has 4 axis, that's 4 x (4x8) bytes to read per sample (=128
bytes)
Igor Chudov wrote:
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Slavko Kocjancicesla...@gmail.com wrote:
That's not problem of friction at all!.
The worst you have is 'sticky' axis.
That means you need a lot more power to start to move axis and when already
moving the required power is a way
Neil Baylis wrote:
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Jack Coatsj...@coats.org wrote:
http://www.cncgadgets.com/cncfree/Aztec-Mayan%20Calendar%20G-code.zip
Has a freely available Aztec/Myan type Calendar. A bit over 11MBytes I am
told.
Is that sufficient?
I found it by doing a Google
Steve Blackmore wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:56:39 +0100, you wrote:
from the wiki page, Gladevcpsetup (currently I cant reach it):
sudo apt-get install python-xlib python-gtkglext1
That command is not shown on
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?GladeVcpSetup
page.
Stuart Stevenson wrote:
I have to move the finger and hand axes while the wrist axis moves to be
able maintain orientation.
I tried this without the multiple subtraction line but was unable to hold
the hand orientation while the wrist moved.
Hmmm, so joints 4 and 5 (starting at 0) both
(Sorry for the top posting - I don't know how to tell my phone to do it right
:) )
The change Chris made basically compensated joint 2 for the rotation of joint
1. This was necessary because the lower arm doesn't rotate when the upper arm
does, which is what genserkins expects. Regardless of
James Louis wrote:
To all proud new owners of a D510MO motherboard: did you install EMC2.4.6
from a live CD?
If so, what was the source, LinuxCNC.org?
The 10.04 CD has 2.4.something on it. That something will be upgraded
to 2.4.6 as soon as you run the update manager once.
The CD isn't
Stuart Stevenson wrote:
What I want is a reset cycle on the
machine so I can push a button and put the material back on a block
That would be the automated brazing attachment, right?
- Steve
--
Lotusphere 2011
andy pugh wrote:
On 15 December 2010 15:41, Sebastian Kuzminskys...@highlab.com wrote:
There are three ways that I know of to pick the config file:
shell emc
Start the pickconfig config picker.
Presumably this lists all ini files in the config tree?
Depending on how Dave
Kirk Wallace wrote:
On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 12:28 -0500, John Kasunich wrote:
Sorry to be so chatty, but...
... snip
But if the cylinder is too small, pumped too slowly, or the leak
is too big, then the pumping might not be able to keep up with
the leak. In that case, make the leak
dambacher-retrofit.de wrote:
Hello everybody
I want to know if emc2 can be adapted to a bending machine.
This machine has 8 axis to move cnc adjustable stops/catches:
one main Y axis, on it two positionable stops with X,Y,Z axis each wich makes:
U (main Y axis)
X1 (first catch)
Y1
Z1
Neil Baylis wrote:
snip...
Remember you can't sell EMC, but you can sell your services, your
documentation
and your electrical/electronic and mechanical products.
Why can't you sell EMC?
Well, I was going to respond with something like because the GPL V2
says you can't.
Just a couple of minor clarifications below
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
Jack Coats wrote:
When you use a M$ product, you don't own the software. You own the rights
to use it under the license agreement.
Same is true for EMC under the agreements. And if you want to sell
Igor Chudov wrote:
I am not too far from adding a 4th axis to my Bridgeport Interact
mill. The 4th axis will be a servo driven rotary table that sits
vertically on the milling table, so that the axis of the rotary ta ble
is parallel to X.
I have a question, inspired by a recent discussion.
Roland Jollivet wrote:
I was wondering, can a fault ever occur with EMC where the frequency of the
charge pump frequency increases?? This would keep the charge pump detector
'up', but a uP would detect an error condition.
It seems unlikely.
The most likely effect of a software problem
Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Chris,
Do you remember the pulses/degree for the American Robot? We put a
different drive on the axis 2. It moves slower than the other arms, it gives
a following error after a few degrees, it is noisy. I think the drive does
not have the microstepping required. It
Stuart Stevenson wrote:
It doesn't matter what microstepping the drive uses - just adjust
the scale to suit. The encoder will tell you when you have it
right.
Yes, I adjusted the scale to allow motion. I think .3 * 50 / 128
will give me the correct movement/encoder count
Jon Elson wrote:
Oh, REALLY, replace 20 transistors with a whole computer! How about a D
FF, with the D connected to the home switch, and the Clock
connected to the index pulse? This does also delay the release of the
home switch until you pass the index again, but maybe that is OK, just
Kirk Wallace wrote:
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 08:44 -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 12:03 +, andy pugh wrote:
On 1 December 2010 06:26, Jon Elsonel...@pico-systems.com wrote:
The problem with anding home and index is then the home
signal becomes a VERY
andy pugh wrote:
On 1 December 2010 17:59, Stephen Wille Padnosspad...@sover.net wrote:
And to add to the complications, you don't know where you'll get the
rising edge once the axis has tripped the limit switch.
A custom comp could watch the axis.N.home-state pin. Assuming that
Tom Easterday wrote:
We are building a plasma/router table and are using Gecko 320X with servo
motors. The Gecko's ignore the index pulse of the encoders and so we want to
send the index pulse to EMC.We are using a D510 with parallel port and
simple parallel break out board. How fast
Tom Easterday wrote:
Thanks Jeff and Stephen. We were thinking of using it for home. So, if the
index pulse is going to be different each time, then how do physical limit
switches work any better? It is a digital input, no?
Right - it will work just as well as a switch, but probably
Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Gentlemen,
In studying the D-H parameter I see the use of 4 parameters. I see
genserkins http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//man/man9/genserkins.9.htmlhas
only three listed. Either I don't understand how 4 becomes three or
something is not correct in the DH
Alex Joni wrote:
There was one change needed in genserkins, which took less than an hour to
figure out. Converting the numbers from work envelope drawings to D-H
parameters took a while as well.
Do you happen to remember what that was?
I don't think I saw an associated commit..
Stuart Stevenson wrote:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Stephen Wille
Padnosspad...@sover.netwrote:
Make sure to copy the data off before using said hammer :)
There are USB interfaces to IDE and SATA drives, they're about $30 from
NewEgg (for one with 3 connectors: 40-pin normal IDE,
Chris Radek wrote:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:24:26PM -0600, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
finally - USB to pata allowed my box to see the file system - I have config
files from it.
I have copied the new-5i23 directory from the lib/firmeware/hm2 directory.
Is this all the files I need to
Mark Wendt wrote:
On 11/10/2010 10:52 AM, Andy Pugh wrote:
On 10 November 2010 14:15, Mark Wendtmark.we...@nrl.navy.mil wrote:
The compiler would see that first statement as a short circuit eval, and
always correctly evaluate it as your second form.
How about:
Kirk Wallace wrote:
[snip]
Sorry for rattling the cage.
What I am trying to do is learn enough C to be able to evaluate what the
code is trying to do. Also, to clarify, I added everything after all of
the //'s, therefore they carry no weight.
For the issue of whether operator precedence
Not to beat a dead horse too much, but at that price and power level,
there's no reason to use an ARM board instead of an Atom board.
The D510MO is fine (certain parallel port strangeness notwithstanding),
as is the D945GCLF2, and a host of other brands. These boards are $90
or so with CPU,
Kirk Wallace wrote:
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 11:48 -0500, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
[snip]
I read somewhere that X-Box has an ARM processor? I wonder if EMC2 or
RTAI could be made to run on X-Box? Since they are made in the millions,
they should be cheap.
Given that Microsoft
Kirk Wallace wrote:
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 17:43 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote:
... snip
For those of us who grew up in the middle of the last century, this is
the most amazing fact about today's microcontrollers.
... I also
think about how many more things I could have achieved had I not
Andy Pugh wrote:
On 19 October 2010 19:19, Kent A. Reedknbr...@erols.com wrote:
Using Google, I found a relevant report on pubsub.com dated April 2010:
---begin pubsub report---
I would like to report an ACPI/PNP Bios problem which prevents the
correct detection of all parallel port
Leslie Newell wrote:
Use a paintball gun instead? Fire paint balls at a wall and write your
name :-)
Obligatory Mythbusters link:
http://videosift.com/video/MythBusters-CPU-vs-GPU-or-Paintball-Cannons-are-Cool
As for actually building one, you don't need and probably don't want all
of
Don Stanley wrote:
[snip]
[ 22.961406] PARPORT: linux parport parport0 does not support mode 4.
[ 22.961412] PARPORT: continuing anyway.
[ 22.961806] PPMC: ERROR: no boards found on bus 0, port 0378
[ 22.961817] PPMC: ERROR: no USC/UPC for extra dac at bus 0, slot 0
[ 22.961827]
Mike Cinquino wrote:
Hello,
I have had no luck getting a C executable to run from a M101 - M199 command
so I have decided to take a different approach. I think that approach will
be problematic with the need for root to get access to the port anyway and
that may be causing the problem I am
Igor Chudov wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Motion_Controller
It would be best if you do it while logged on into a Wikipedia
account. We need to put up an original page that is at least adequate,
so that it would not be removed.
It is linked to from the Numerical control page
Jon Elson wrote:
Igor Chudov wrote:
Things may have somewhat improved.
I checked on my unsophisticated home network. Ping time (roundtrip),
involving three switches (one in my basement office, then the main
switch at the main interconnect in the utility room, then the switch
in the
Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Gentlemen,
I am working on a project on the Enshu. I am not sure how valuable it will
be but I sure want to try it. I want to tap threads using the MPG.
How do you envision this working? Does the handwheel make the machine a
virtual hand tapper? (ie, spin 1/2
Well, I'll be there.
I should arrive late on the 11th, and leave mid-day on the 16th.
See you then
- Steve
Stuart Stevenson wrote:
Jon,
If there can be normal weather in Kansas it is not usually heavy snow. It
'normally' is cold and cloudy and rainy during November. Ice is more likely
Daniel Goller wrote:
After all the great replies I received I wonder if the lack of comments
about using 2 monitors means that this works so flawlessly with a xorg.conf
setup for dual head that none voiced any concerns or shared bad user
experiences?
I don't know if that's the reason, but
Igor Chudov wrote:
Jon, is this ebay encoder compatible with your PPMC?
And is Digikey item GH6101-ND compatible with PPMC?
It should be.
You will need pull-up resistors on the two encoder lines, I think the
datasheet says to use 3.9k or something. I have used the GH6102 before,
which
Let me know if you can get an extra ticket.
(like I'm the only one ;) )
- Steve
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
Heh, no, but i wish i was! The research group I work with has a payload
going up and a bunch of us are going to Cape Canaveral to support the
launch.
This time i'm bringing my wife
Andy Pugh wrote:
Is there a way to force Axis to generate a graphical preview of a subroutine?
My lathe is normally used by use of primitive subroutines for turning,
boring etc. As these subroutines are not loaded until a pyvcp button
is pressed, no graphical preview is generated.
This
Jon Elson wrote:
Igor Chudov wrote:
Andy, my feeling on the matter, is that your solution is great. I
should somehow activate these comparators for a short time after a
speed change command (like for 7 seconds) and then disable them
afterwards. That way reversing with a VFD, is not a
Sasa Vilic wrote:
If I run from console emc and press Ctrl-Z, it will shut down emc in a
nice way.
But sending SIGINT with kill does nothing. Is there any way to stop
emc in a nice way with kill or any other program?
SIGINT is like pressing ctrl-C, which may be blocked or otherwise
yann jautard wrote:
Wow, very fast answer, and probabely right. No VFD, but this could
correspond to the moment the air compressor that powers the glue pump
starts.
Shame on me, I read emi on the kernel message, but this not printed
anything in my mind... tired I guess :/
You might be
Jon Elson wrote:
yann jautard wrote:
I just looked inside my control panel box, and you're right : no shield
at all in the USB cable.
Hmmm, that must be a very OLD USB cable. I would think that anything
you'd buy today would have the shield.
These should be quite cheap.
Igor Chudov wrote:
Guys, I got it functioning perfectly, exactly like I would want.
1) If the manual coolant switch is selected, coolant is on whenever
spindle is on.
2) If the manual coolant switch is not switched, EMC (G code, F, GUI
button) can turn coolant on and off as it wishes.
What
James Louis wrote:
Thanks for the reply Kirk. Having explained it, would you (or anyone) mind
translating the following generic sample to net without deleting any signal
names? :
newsig signalnameA bit
newsig signalnameB bit
newsig signalnameC bit
linksp signalnameA= inputpin1
linksp
Speaker To-Dirt wrote:
Hey All:
Thanks for the fast replies. Hummm. I thought of turning off outputs
to the parallel port, but wanted something I could use as a fast test of
individual axes on individual programs. What I did do was comment out all
motion in the XY plane and keep
James Louis wrote:
Jon is right, you cannot. Unless you are running pre-2.2.x EMC2. Quote from
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?UPDATING:
3.4. double-linking of pins is now treated as an error
halcmd and hal_link() now refuse to link an already-linked pin. This
immediately
Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com wrote:
Gentlemen,
I would like to find software to create/document schematics for my
machines. I would like to have symbols and features to place where needed.
Is there anything out there?
Sorry if this has been addressed before.
Free is good but it doesn't
Jon Elson wrote:
[snip]
Dont know if EMCs PID loop has been modified to allow an external (not
DPosition/DT) velocity input. If the PID component had a velocity input, you
could use HostMot2s encoder velocity output as a better velocity feedback
term
than the (crunchy) DPosition/DT
Speaker To-Dirt wrote:
Hi All:
I was looking over the emc2 site and saw someone post about a graycode
driver option. Just 2 days ago I made such an interface to so I can run my
Bridgeport Series I CNC with EMC2. A brief description is here.
Shaffin Bhanji wrote:
I have not changed the jumpers on the board that I believe by default
are set for 1/8 microsteps
And you have told Stepconf that you have 2 microsteps, so you should get
about 1/4 the travel you expect, assuming everything else is accurate.
- Steve
Paul Keeton wrote:
Gents,
Trying to use M64 and M65 to operate a quill. After setting up
the I/O's in the config when issuing a M64 or 65 this the error I get -
ERROR: INDEX OUT OF RANGE, 255 NOT IN [0..4]
(increase num_dio/EMCMOT_MAX_DIO=64)
When increase the
EKCo Inc Don Stanley wrote:
Hi All;
I have installed EMC 2.3 on a lathe using the Motenc Light interface.
Two problems have me stumped.
1- I want to Home at the Encoder Index after using Plus-limit / Home
combination Switch at the Plus end of travel to get to a known start
EKCo Inc Don Stanley wrote:
Andy;
Sorry, I intended to say the real entries were upper case.
I believe John hit the problem. The Motenc documentation
in EMC 2.3 does not list an -indx-enable option and I was
trying use the listed Pins to accomplish the connection.
Now I am trying to find if
Steve Stallings wrote:
One of the many problems with Jog under Pause is
that a pause can interrupt a partial move.
Neglecting specially-shaped cutters (keyway, T-slot), and also
neglecting niceties like tangent arc entries to arc moves (probably
impossible since EMC doesn't know what the
Slavko Kocjancic wrote:
[snip]
Beaware of one nasty thing with manualtoolchange.py! When window popup
the keyboard control is on that window! If someone uses Estop in
keyboard and something goes wrong during toolchange dialog then Estop
button wont work!
This is one reason why you never
Viesturs Lācis wrote:
I had a thought about that and there is one BUT... I am going to use
stepper motor to control the rotary axis and as far as i know there is
only one way to create a closed loop system - EMC outputs PWM signal
and receives encoder data and then there has to be PWM-to-step
Viesturs Lācis wrote:
2010/5/15 Stephen Wille Padnosspad...@sover.net:
[snip]
Motors will be moving relatively slowly, so loss of torque in high
speeds is not a problem.
I expect that rotary axis will have to hold their existing position
more than do any movement at all and steppers are
Dave wrote:
On 5/12/2010 7:45 PM, mari...@hall9000.com.br wrote:
Debug file
information:
insmod: error inserting
'/usr/realtime/modules/emc2/motmod.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in
module
Mars-cnc.hal:5: exit value: 1
Mars-cnc.hal:5: insmod failed,
returned -1
See the output of 'dmesg' for
Neil Baylis wrote:
[snip]
Here's the Homing section of my .ini file:
HOME_SEARCH_VEL = -1.0
HOME_LATCH_VEL = 0.1
HOME_USE_INDEX = NO
HOME_IGNORE_LIMITS = NO
HOME_IS_SHARED = NO
HOME_OFFSET = 0.0
HOME =
Neil Baylis wrote:
Oh, I thought HOME_IS_SHARED meant the home was shared with another axis.
Well, you could be right :)
Always listen to the manual, or the actual behavior, better than you
listen to me.
- Steve
Neil Baylis wrote:
No, same problem.
With HOME_IGNORE_LIMITS = YES, it sails right past the home/limit
switch and hits the hard stop.
With HOME_IGNORE_LIMITS = NO, it stops at the limit, complaining that
it hit a limit in homing state 5.
HOME_IS_SHARED seems to have no effect on this.
Neil Baylis wrote:
Thanks Steve.
I made 3 halmeters as you suggested. They all register FALSE, even
when the GUI is
showing the position in red when I hit the limit.
That's mighty odd, and more or less impossible if the HAL setup is as we
think it is. Can you add another halmeter on
Neil Baylis wrote:
OK, I've posted what I think is relevant. If there's a file missing, let me
know.
I posted the output of halcmd show twice, once with the machine off the
limit switch, and again with it on the limit switch.
I omitted the .tbl and .var files.
These files are edited
Taras Koroljuk wrote:
Rafael Skodlarra...@... writes:
now run the following line:
sh /tmp/test.sh 4 5
program -f 1$ -p 2$
program -f 4 -p 5
=
program -f $1: [4] -p $2: [5]
Last four lines are the result of the script. You need to change 1$ to
$1. 'exit 0' is not needed.
Andy Pugh wrote:
[snip]
Would my 4 magnet set-up through a second pickup provide that, if a
timing pulse is required , or is that too coarse?
More pulses is better, but a few inaccurately-times pulses is probably
worse than 1PPR for introducing errors to the spindle velocity
Andy Pugh wrote:
[snip]
And this was only ever meant to be a throwaway comment aimed at the
earlier statement that an encoder with no index is no use at all. ie
that you can still use such an encoder to control and measure spindle
speed.
I think Jon's original comment was meant to say
BillRebey wrote:
Am I understanding this correctly? Does this application actually require
a custom kernel build for every new version of the O/S?
It requires a hard realtime kernel, using RTAI or RTLinux. If the new
version of the OS has a new kernel version (and depends on features in
Drew Rogge wrote:
I'm going to be setting up an EMC machine but unfortunately the Live CD
based on Hardy Heron is not recent enough for what I want. I assume that
I'll need to obtain the EMC and rtai sources and compile them. Does
anyone know what the latest release of ubunto that will easily
Andy Pugh wrote:
On 7 April 2010 03:00, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds like your math needs a mod function. It would drive it to the next
index only, I think.
Yes, that ought to work too (though I would prefer that the gear
didn't move at all when the tooth count
Gene Heskett wrote:
Anybody have any clues? If I can get it to run back to 0,0,0, I'll reboot.
I think there was a recent fix that significantly reduced a memory leak
in AXIS, specifically when you reload the G-code program. There is some
path display related variable that doesn't get
Jon Elson wrote:
Frank Tkalcevic wrote:
Nope, you are exactly right. On both accounts. Turning the spindle by hand
will make Z move until it gets to the Z specified in G33/33.1 then stop.
G33.1 will move back, but only when it is within the G33.1 bounds.
Are you sure?
Stuart Stevenson wrote:
driving the spindle with an MPG would allow EMC2 to tap a hole in manual
mode - interesting no?
Would be, if EMC2 actually geared to the spindle ;)
You wouldn't be able to do the 1/2 turn forward/1/4 turn back method
though.
(which would have been much much easier
Klemen Dovrtel wrote:
... Just trying to get my head around why do you want to do
totally
independent movement of axes?
If it is an intellectual exercise, that I can go
with. I just don't
see the practical need.
thanks for helping me understand, ... Jack
My idea is to control a
Andy Pugh wrote:
On 3 April 2010 01:07, Frank Tkalcevicfr...@franksworkshop.com.au wrote:
G33 sounds more complicated. Won't G33 have problems requiring the spindle
turning under power, being at-speed, and then synching with index pulse?
The spindle definitely does not need to be
Edward Bernard wrote:
I didn't know you could run independent instances of EMC. How would this be
done?
You can't, unless you do it on separate computers.
If you don't need full coordinated motion on multiple sets of axes, you
may be able to implement some sort of HAL modules to do what
Riley Porter wrote:
Thanks for the clarity. So in tutorials that I have watched / read how to.
I see AXIS load a DXF file then it passes gcode to emc which spits out step
dir?
AXIS has the ability to run filters while loading files, so if someone
has a DXF to G-code converter, that can
Riley Porter wrote:
Thanks for all the info! Great stuff. Stephen. You talked about Filters
able to be ran when loading files. I think this is a good place for me to
look into. Is there any documentation on writing filters?
Filters are programs that get a file name on the command
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