Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
Dear Andy and tom3p Spent now a couple of hours more on this. I looked at the emc 2.3.3 and earlier versions release notes. Among other points named O words is listed. Do I need toupgrade from 2.2.8 ? Greets Chris -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing SOLVED!
Hi all Spent now a couple of hours more on this. I looked at the emc 2.3.3 and earlier versions release notes. Among other points named O words is listed. Do I need toupgrade from 2.2.8 ? Got it sorted out: you *need* EMC2 version 2.3.3 to get the sample code of this: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?SubProgramFiles to run. That was not obvious to me. Greets chris PS: Off to some large cutting :-) -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing SOLVED!
Just one more thing: make sure your subprogramfiles are all written in lowercases. So, if something like MySubProgramFile is called, axis looks for a file like mysubprogramfile thus mot considering uppercases. In my understanding, this should not happen. Is this a bug? greets chris Hi all Spent now a couple of hours more on this. I looked at the emc 2.3.3 and earlier versions release notes. Among other points named O words is listed. Do I need toupgrade from 2.2.8 ? Got it sorted out: you *need* EMC2 version 2.3.3 to get the sample code of this: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?SubProgramFiles to run. That was not obvious to me. Greets chris PS: Off to some large cutting :-) -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing SOLVED!
EMC converts every line to lowercase only when it reads the line. It also removes blank spaces when parsing the gcode. That is apparently part of the rs274ngc standard. For that reason, the behavior you are seeing is not a bug. A person with more energy than I have could add an option to do away with that conversion. It would have to include recognizing X and x as both referring to the same code. Doing that would break programs that depend on having oaBc recognized at oabc, though. Ken Chris Epicier wrote: Just one more thing: make sure your subprogramfiles are all written in lowercases. So, if something like MySubProgramFile is called, axis looks for a file like mysubprogramfile thus mot considering uppercases. In my understanding, this should not happen. Is this a bug? greets chris Hi all Spent now a couple of hours more on this. I looked at the emc 2.3.3 and earlier versions release notes. Among other points named O words is listed. Do I need toupgrade from 2.2.8 ? Got it sorted out: you *need* EMC2 version 2.3.3 to get the sample code of this: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?SubProgramFiles to run. That was not obvious to me. Greets chris PS: Off to some large cutting :-) -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Kenneth Lerman Mark Kenny Products Company, LLC 55 Main Street Newtown, CT 06470 888-ISO-SEVO 203-426-7166 -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
2009/10/25 Chris Epicier seuch...@yahoo.de: Spent now a couple of hours more on this. I looked at the emc 2.3.3 and earlier versions release notes. Among other points named O words is listed. Do I need toupgrade from 2.2.8 ? I know it does work with 2.3.3. I have no evidence either way with 2.2.8 (I am enough of a newbie never to have even used it). If 2.2.8 doesn't have named O-words then you will not be able to use non-numeric file names, but there is a fair chance it will work if your files are numbered (100.ngc, that sort of thing) -- atp -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
Dear Andy and tom3p Thank you very much for the quick reply. Stephen had pointed me to this also, I have amended the files accordingly and still get Bad Number Format. I was fiddling around with this last night, and got it working for my application. I suspect that the reason you didn't see any improvement when you modified the sub-program files is that Axis doesn't seem to reload them when you reload the main file. The only way I have found to make changes to a subprogram stick is to quit and reload Axis. (I didn't do exhaustive testing, though, I was just trying to get it to work) After some discussion on IRC tom3p came up with this Wiki article: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?SubProgamFiles (Unfortunately there is a typo in the page title which might make it hard to find) First off: Kindly note that above is now availble here (Alex renamed it accordingly, thx): http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?SubProgramFiles I had copied the files listed: 333 ethel fred and mamnum.ngc, put them into a sperate directory and created a symbolic link to this. the link is actually referred to by PROGRAM_PREFIX fr convenience. I run axis and see all above referred .ngc files. I load namnum.ngc and get (original in German): Near Line 5 in /home/usrename/realpath not symbolic name/namnum.ngc: No coordinates for path condition German: Nahe Linie 5 in /home/usrename/realpath not symbolic name/namnum.ngc: Keine Koordinaten für Wegbedingung Line 5 in namnum.ngc is: g0 z.1 g0 is gee zero not gee ooo. I do not see a reasn for this, do you? greets chris -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
2009/9/30 Chris Epicier seuch...@yahoo.de: Thank you very much for the quick reply. Stephen had pointed me to this also, I have amended the files accordingly and still get Bad Number Format. I was fiddling around with this last night, and got it working for my application. I suspect that the reason you didn't see any improvement when you modified the sub-program files is that Axis doesn't seem to reload them when you reload the main file. The only way I have found to make changes to a subprogram stick is to quit and reload Axis. (I didn't do exhaustive testing, though, I was just trying to get it to work) After some discussion on IRC tom3p came up with this Wiki article: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?SubProgamFiles (Unfortunately there is a typo in the page title which might make it hard to find) -- atp -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
I renamed it to: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?SubProgramFiles Regards, Alex -- From: Andy Pugh a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 3:56 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing 2009/9/30 Chris Epicier seuch...@yahoo.de: Thank you very much for the quick reply. Stephen had pointed me to this also, I have amended the files accordingly and still get Bad Number Format. I was fiddling around with this last night, and got it working for my application. I suspect that the reason you didn't see any improvement when you modified the sub-program files is that Axis doesn't seem to reload them when you reload the main file. The only way I have found to make changes to a subprogram stick is to quit and reload Axis. (I didn't do exhaustive testing, though, I was just trying to get it to work) After some discussion on IRC tom3p came up with this Wiki article: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?SubProgamFiles (Unfortunately there is a typo in the page title which might make it hard to find) -- atp -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.9/2427 - Release Date: 10/10/09 06:39:00 -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
Dear Ken To generate lots of debug messages: In your.ini file section [RS274NGC] add the line LOG_LEVEL = 999 I guess this is wat I was looking for! thanks! Then the file emc_log will get a log containing the interpreter activity regarding o-words, subroutines, etc. You probably don't want this enabled when you are doing something useful because the file will be very large. I suspect that you will find that the file prefix is wrong. I have some small files ready, that I generated to keep things simple but being able to produce the same mistake. I will be back to try and debug this when back in my workshop (about 1 week). Put the log up on pastebin and we can take a look at it. What is the pastebin? Once I am there, I might put an external link to the log files, so the digest will be as small as reasonable possible. However, If later people try to look up matters, they will see a broken link. One neat thing you can do is load a file containing lots of subroutines. If you have enabled LAZY_CLOSE in your ini file, you will then be able to invoke the subroutines from the MDI. This sounds like a very neat thing. From time to time I have to repeat just one subroutine (to date I load the individual files manually w/o sub endsub stuff). Then this will become extremel handy. Thanks for the hint! greets chris -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
Dear Steve Try removing the O sub/endsub lines and loading the files individually. That should get you a line number where the error occurs (I hope). The files were actually converted into subfiles from standalone files. The standalone files work without any error and do not show O sub/endsub lines. They do actually also run w/o the M30 command at the end, so... I glanced at the files and didn't see anything strange. ... confirmed, they run if loaded into axis as standalones, also the preview is there and I can rotate the display or whatever. One thing to note though, the interpreter behaves as though there were no spaces in the line. When calling subroutines that take parameters, each parameter needs to be enclosed in [] to insure that it's treated as a separate entity. If there are any places where you have two numbers separated only by whitespace, that will be an error. As an example, 1.25 3.99 will be interpreted as 1.253.99, which is a bad number format. there are only twowhitespaces in the sub files, seperating these two terms: -Olabels -sub/endsub I have no parameters to pass from the master to the subs I'm not sure where else to point you. Hope still this can be sorted out. It would be just great, If a coud have a trace window to see what axis does when it loads a file and also when it starts to interprete the file. Finally jan mentioned he could get a preview of my files. So I should beleieve it is somewhere in my setup that runs smootheley when using stabndrd individual files? chris PS: Ian, I hope that this message is in line with lists policy -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
To generate lots of debug messages: In your.ini file section [RS274NGC] add the line LOG_LEVEL = 999 Then the file emc_log will get a log containing the interpreter activity regarding o-words, subroutines, etc. You probably don't want this enabled when you are doing something useful because the file will be very large. I suspect that you will find that the file prefix is wrong. Put the log up on pastebin and we can take a look at it. One neat thing you can do is load a file containing lots of subroutines. If you have enabled LAZY_CLOSE in your ini file, you will then be able to invoke the subroutines from the MDI. Ken Chris Epicier wrote: Dear Steve Try removing the O sub/endsub lines and loading the files individually. That should get you a line number where the error occurs (I hope). The files were actually converted into subfiles from standalone files. The standalone files work without any error and do not show O sub/endsub lines. They do actually also run w/o the M30 command at the end, so... I glanced at the files and didn't see anything strange. ... confirmed, they run if loaded into axis as standalones, also the preview is there and I can rotate the display or whatever. One thing to note though, the interpreter behaves as though there were no spaces in the line. When calling subroutines that take parameters, each parameter needs to be enclosed in [] to insure that it's treated as a separate entity. If there are any places where you have two numbers separated only by whitespace, that will be an error. As an example, 1.25 3.99 will be interpreted as 1.253.99, which is a bad number format. there are only twowhitespaces in the sub files, seperating these two terms: -Olabels -sub/endsub I have no parameters to pass from the master to the subs I'm not sure where else to point you. Hope still this can be sorted out. It would be just great, If a coud have a trace window to see what axis does when it loads a file and also when it starts to interprete the file. Finally jan mentioned he could get a preview of my files. So I should beleieve it is somewhere in my setup that runs smootheley when using stabndrd individual files? chris PS: Ian, I hope that this message is in line with lists policy -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Kenneth Lerman Mark Kenny Products Company, LLC 55 Main Street Newtown, CT 06470 888-ISO-SEVO 203-426-7166 -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
Dear Jan Chris, I've managed to get a preview that seemed to display a combination of the files. Set the PROGRAM_PREFIX setting in the ini file to the location of the called files Removed the M30 codes from the end of each sub. I did that and no preview availabl, still get bad number format error. I have axis 2.2.8 on 8.04 LTS. latest updates to say 30 minutes ago. when I start axis and invoke open file dialogue I see all my ngc files w/o changing a directory, so the PROGRAM_PREFIX is set correct. the path to it has blanks in it. Could it be that this is the error? So I cpd all files in a directory that has no blanks in its name, set PROGRAM_PREFIX to this new path and loaded my maste ngc again. now it says near line 6 in master.ngc: wrong number format. Looks like axis has a problem of some kind with such symlinks / and or path names, but that is a different thing and I do not want to follow this here. rhino cam has been uesd to generate my cnc code in the sub files. So I thought it could be a dos2unix issue, so I ran dos2unix * and still get the same error. I check: - all files in same directory as stated in PROGRAM_PREFIX : OK - PROGRAM_PREFIX has no blanks? OK - dos2unix all files OK - M30 removed in all files OK What could it be this time? best rgeards chris regards, Jan On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:54, Chris Epicier seuch...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi all I am in the process of cutting parts, due out soon. Should be doing million things, other than keepin my cnc busy. I checked and rechecked the syntax in bot, master, labels and other files. I cannot find a mistake there. Is there a way I can debug this? A way to set axis/emc to talk to me about what is going wrong? Greets chris Besides: had yesterday a couple of guys couriuos abut the cnc cutting. one of them works for steel cutter. He said he was impressed about the features and easiness emc and axis can be handled. Also my finding: great! So a big faaa thankyou to all that made emc what it is now! Jan Thank you very much for the quick reply. Stephen had pointed me to this also, I have amended the files accordingly and still get Bad Number Format. I attach the original files not stripped. Maybe there is something there that shoudl not be. Besides, all files rune smoothly as truely standa alone files. So I do not believe it is actually within the sub files. greets chris Betreff: Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: axis and batch processing An: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Datum: Mittwoch, 30. September 2009, 19:48 Chris, in file labels.ngc, line 1: Olabels sub Should be: Olabels sub and: Olabels endsub Should be Olabels endsub This syntax error should also be corrected in the other files. regards, Jan On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 18:00, Chris Epicier seuch...@yahoo.de wrote: Dear Stephen Check this chapter in the manual: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.3/html/gcode_main.html#r3_7 Regards, Jan I did, but I just cannot get it to work. I have 5 files: [master.ngc] Olabels call Ointernal_contours call Oexternal_contours_rough call Oexternal_contours_finish call G53 G0 X0Y0Z0 [end of master.ngc] [labels.ngc] Olabels sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Olabels endsub M2 [end of labels.ngc] [internal_contours.ngc] Ointernal_contours sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Ointernal_contours endsub M2 [end of internal_contours.ngc] [external_contours_rough.ngc] Oexternal_contours_rough sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Oexternal_contours_rough endsub M2 [end of external_contours_rough.ngc] [external_contours_finish.ngc] Oexternal_contours_finish sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Oexternal_contours_finish endsub M2 [end of external_contours_finish.ngc] All files are in the same directory. I believe I got the master file about right. What I doubt there is if the homing sequence is correct but that's not a showstopper. In [labels.ngc] and all the other sub files, I doubt the missing line numbering. My programming experience tells me, either it has to be ther or totally omitted. If I load master ngc in axis, I get no errormessage. when I run the file I get Bad Number Format. I am lost now. What's wrong and where, any help is greatly appreciated. greets chris
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
Chris, More than 2/3 of the digest I just got was taken up by your one message - will you PLEASE try to cut down the previous posts which are attached to your message and not just hit the 'reply' button. Thanks Ian -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
Chris, I've managed to get a preview that seemed to display a combination of the files. Set the PROGRAM_PREFIX setting in the ini file to the location of the called files Removed the M30 codes from the end of each sub. regards, Jan On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:54, Chris Epicier seuch...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi all I am in the process of cutting parts, due out soon. Should be doing million things, other than keepin my cnc busy. I checked and rechecked the syntax in bot, master, labels and other files. I cannot find a mistake there. Is there a way I can debug this? A way to set axis/emc to talk to me about what is going wrong? Greets chris Besides: had yesterday a couple of guys couriuos abut the cnc cutting. one of them works for steel cutter. He said he was impressed about the features and easiness emc and axis can be handled. Also my finding: great! So a big faaa thankyou to all that made emc what it is now! Jan Thank you very much for the quick reply. Stephen had pointed me to this also, I have amended the files accordingly and still get Bad Number Format. I attach the original files not stripped. Maybe there is something there that shoudl not be. Besides, all files rune smoothly as truely standa alone files. So I do not believe it is actually within the sub files. greets chris Betreff: Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: axis and batch processing An: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Datum: Mittwoch, 30. September 2009, 19:48 Chris, in file labels.ngc, line 1: Olabels sub Should be: Olabels sub and: Olabels endsub Should be Olabels endsub This syntax error should also be corrected in the other files. regards, Jan On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 18:00, Chris Epicier seuch...@yahoo.de wrote: Dear Stephen Check this chapter in the manual: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.3/html/gcode_main.html#r3_7 Regards, Jan I did, but I just cannot get it to work. I have 5 files: [master.ngc] Olabels call Ointernal_contours call Oexternal_contours_rough call Oexternal_contours_finish call G53 G0 X0Y0Z0 [end of master.ngc] [labels.ngc] Olabels sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Olabels endsub M2 [end of labels.ngc] [internal_contours.ngc] Ointernal_contours sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Ointernal_contours endsub M2 [end of internal_contours.ngc] [external_contours_rough.ngc] Oexternal_contours_rough sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Oexternal_contours_rough endsub M2 [end of external_contours_rough.ngc] [external_contours_finish.ngc] Oexternal_contours_finish sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Oexternal_contours_finish endsub M2 [end of external_contours_finish.ngc] All files are in the same directory. I believe I got the master file about right. What I doubt there is if the homing sequence is correct but that's not a showstopper. In [labels.ngc] and all the other sub files, I doubt the missing line numbering. My programming experience tells me, either it has to be ther or totally omitted. If I load master ngc in axis, I get no errormessage. when I run the file I get Bad Number Format. I am lost now. What's wrong and where, any help is greatly appreciated. greets chris === 3.7 Calling Files To call a file name the file the same as your call and include a sub and endsub. The file must be in the directory pointed to by PROGRAM_PREFIX omyfile call (a named file) or o123 call (a number file) In the called file include the oxxx sub and endsub and the file must be a valid file myfile.ngc omyfile sub ... omyfile endsub M2 If I interprete that correctly, I shoud be able to do this: Let's assume I have these files: engrave.ngc, bevel.ngc, inner.ngc, outer. ngc, home.ngc I so, I woul generate another file, let's call it master.ngc with about te following content: omaster.ngc call engrave.ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc omaster.ngc call bevel.ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc omaster.ngc call inner.ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc omaster.ngc call outer. ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc However that fails, why? I haven't tried it, but one thing to note
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
Chris, Is your PROGRAM_PREFIX setting in the [DISPLAY] section set? Regards, Jan On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:54, Chris Epicier seuch...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi all I am in the process of cutting parts, due out soon. Should be doing million things, other than keepin my cnc busy. I checked and rechecked the syntax in bot, master, labels and other files. I cannot find a mistake there. Is there a way I can debug this? A way to set axis/emc to talk to me about what is going wrong? Greets chris Besides: had yesterday a couple of guys couriuos abut the cnc cutting. one of them works for steel cutter. He said he was impressed about the features and easiness emc and axis can be handled. Also my finding: great! So a big faaa thankyou to all that made emc what it is now! Jan Thank you very much for the quick reply. Stephen had pointed me to this also, I have amended the files accordingly and still get Bad Number Format. I attach the original files not stripped. Maybe there is something there that shoudl not be. Besides, all files rune smoothly as truely standa alone files. So I do not believe it is actually within the sub files. greets chris Betreff: Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: axis and batch processing An: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Datum: Mittwoch, 30. September 2009, 19:48 Chris, in file labels.ngc, line 1: Olabels sub Should be: Olabels sub and: Olabels endsub Should be Olabels endsub This syntax error should also be corrected in the other files. regards, Jan On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 18:00, Chris Epicier seuch...@yahoo.de wrote: Dear Stephen Check this chapter in the manual: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.3/html/gcode_main.html#r3_7 Regards, Jan I did, but I just cannot get it to work. I have 5 files: [master.ngc] Olabels call Ointernal_contours call Oexternal_contours_rough call Oexternal_contours_finish call G53 G0 X0Y0Z0 [end of master.ngc] [labels.ngc] Olabels sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Olabels endsub M2 [end of labels.ngc] [internal_contours.ngc] Ointernal_contours sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Ointernal_contours endsub M2 [end of internal_contours.ngc] [external_contours_rough.ngc] Oexternal_contours_rough sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Oexternal_contours_rough endsub M2 [end of external_contours_rough.ngc] [external_contours_finish.ngc] Oexternal_contours_finish sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Oexternal_contours_finish endsub M2 [end of external_contours_finish.ngc] All files are in the same directory. I believe I got the master file about right. What I doubt there is if the homing sequence is correct but that's not a showstopper. In [labels.ngc] and all the other sub files, I doubt the missing line numbering. My programming experience tells me, either it has to be ther or totally omitted. If I load master ngc in axis, I get no errormessage. when I run the file I get Bad Number Format. I am lost now. What's wrong and where, any help is greatly appreciated. greets chris === 3.7 Calling Files To call a file name the file the same as your call and include a sub and endsub. The file must be in the directory pointed to by PROGRAM_PREFIX omyfile call (a named file) or o123 call (a number file) In the called file include the oxxx sub and endsub and the file must be a valid file myfile.ngc omyfile sub ... omyfile endsub M2 If I interprete that correctly, I shoud be able to do this: Let's assume I have these files: engrave.ngc, bevel.ngc, inner.ngc, outer. ngc, home.ngc I so, I woul generate another file, let's call it master.ngc with about te following content: omaster.ngc call engrave.ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc omaster.ngc call bevel.ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc omaster.ngc call inner.ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc omaster.ngc call outer. ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc However that fails, why? I haven't tried it, but one thing to note is that the are necessary around a named O-word or parameter. Also, the manual might be a little unclear since it looks like the text
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
Chris Epicier wrote: Hi all I am in the process of cutting parts, due out soon. Should be doing million things, other than keepin my cnc busy. I checked and rechecked the syntax in bot, master, labels and other files. I cannot find a mistake there. Is there a way I can debug this? A way to set axis/emc to talk to me about what is going wrong? Try removing the O sub/endsub lines and loading the files individually. That should get you a line number where the error occurs (I hope). I glanced at the files and didn't see anything strange. One thing to note though, the interpreter behaves as though there were no spaces in the line. When calling subroutines that take parameters, each parameter needs to be enclosed in [] to insure that it's treated as a separate entity. If there are any places where you have two numbers separated only by whitespace, that will be an error. As an example, 1.25 3.99 will be interpreted as 1.253.99, which is a bad number format. I'm not sure where else to point you. - Steve -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: WG: Re: axis and batch processing
Hi all I am in the process of cutting parts, due out soon. Should be doing million things, other than keepin my cnc busy. I checked and rechecked the syntax in bot, master, labels and other files. I cannot find a mistake there. Is there a way I can debug this? A way to set axis/emc to talk to me about what is going wrong? Greets chris Besides: had yesterday a couple of guys couriuos abut the cnc cutting. one of them works for steel cutter. He said he was impressed about the features and easiness emc and axis can be handled. Also my finding: great! So a big faaa thankyou to all that made emc what it is now! Jan Thank you very much for the quick reply. Stephen had pointed me to this also, I have amended the files accordingly and still get Bad Number Format. I attach the original files not stripped. Maybe there is something there that shoudl not be. Besides, all files rune smoothly as truely standa alone files. So I do not believe it is actually within the sub files. greets chris Betreff: Re: [Emc-users] WG: Re: axis and batch processing An: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Datum: Mittwoch, 30. September 2009, 19:48 Chris, in file labels.ngc, line 1: Olabels sub Should be: Olabels sub and: Olabels endsub Should be Olabels endsub This syntax error should also be corrected in the other files. regards, Jan On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 18:00, Chris Epicier seuch...@yahoo.de wrote: Dear Stephen Check this chapter in the manual: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.3/html/gcode_main.html#r3_7 Regards, Jan I did, but I just cannot get it to work. I have 5 files: [master.ngc] Olabels call Ointernal_contours call Oexternal_contours_rough call Oexternal_contours_finish call G53 G0 X0Y0Z0 [end of master.ngc] [labels.ngc] Olabels sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Olabels endsub M2 [end of labels.ngc] [internal_contours.ngc] Ointernal_contours sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Ointernal_contours endsub M2 [end of internal_contours.ngc] [external_contours_rough.ngc] Oexternal_contours_rough sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Oexternal_contours_rough endsub M2 [end of external_contours_rough.ngc] [external_contours_finish.ngc] Oexternal_contours_finish sub N0G20M6T2 N868M09 N869M30 Oexternal_contours_finish endsub M2 [end of external_contours_finish.ngc] All files are in the same directory. I believe I got the master file about right. What I doubt there is if the homing sequence is correct but that's not a showstopper. In [labels.ngc] and all the other sub files, I doubt the missing line numbering. My programming experience tells me, either it has to be ther or totally omitted. If I load master ngc in axis, I get no errormessage. when I run the file I get Bad Number Format. I am lost now. What's wrong and where, any help is greatly appreciated. greets chris === 3.7 Calling Files To call a file name the file the same as your call and include a sub and endsub. The file must be in the directory pointed to by PROGRAM_PREFIX omyfile call (a named file) or o123 call (a number file) In the called file include the oxxx sub and endsub and the file must be a valid file myfile.ngc omyfile sub ... omyfile endsub M2 If I interprete that correctly, I shoud be able to do this: Let's assume I have these files: engrave.ngc, bevel.ngc, inner.ngc, outer. ngc, home.ngc I so, I woul generate another file, let's call it master.ngc with about te following content: omaster.ngc call engrave.ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc omaster.ngc call bevel.ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc omaster.ngc call inner.ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc omaster.ngc call outer. ngc omaster.ngc call home.ngc However that fails, why? I haven't tried it, but one thing to note is that the are necessary around a named O-word or parameter. Also, the manual might be a little unclear since it looks like the text in parentheses is part of the command. I think what the instructions are trying to say is that the master file should do
