Re: [Emc-users] help with memorial plaque

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Penner
Second post keep forgetting to post with the email I subscribed with, sorry if they both show up. T Hi Doug; I am the EnRoute trainer and I do this type of work all the time with customers, sign companies, and foundries. EnRoute has a nice set of tools for this, but no need to spend 8K on a one

Re: [Emc-users] help with memorial plaque

2013-05-09 Thread doug metzler
Great, Thanks Tom, I'll send you the image off list as soon as I have it. It will likely be the .187 bronze from McMaster. Kent, I am sorry for your loss - the woman the plaque is for was my girlfriend so I know a little of what you went through. In this case it is a bench, so the angle of the

Re: [Emc-users] help with memorial plaque

2013-05-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- On Thu, 5/9/13, Florian Rist fr...@fs.tum.de wrote: Or mill/grind a free form lens projecting the image, if the sun shined down in the right angle:   http://lgg.epfl.ch/caustics (Sorry for teasing, but the software is not published.) That is a neat one. A bit like real versions of

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2013-02-05 Thread kqt4at5v
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Kip wrote: Greetings all! My shift registers seem to be working well as a cheap and easy port expander! Apologies for how long it took me to write it up, but we are currently in the middle of the FIRST Robotics Challenge build season, so I'm spending almost every

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2013-02-05 Thread Ralph Stirling
Digikey.com . You also might consider 74HC595, 74HC497, or 74AHC595 and 74AHC597. -- Ralph From: kqt4a...@gmail.com [kqt4a...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 6:05 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Help, out

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2013-02-05 Thread Erik Friesen
) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Kip wrote: Greetings all! My shift registers seem to be working well as a cheap and easy port expander! Apologies for how long it took me to write it up, but we are currently in the middle of the FIRST Robotics

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2013-02-05 Thread kqt4at5v
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Roland Jollivet wrote: On 5 February 2013 16:11, Ralph Stirling ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.eduwrote: Digikey.com . You also might consider 74HC595, 74HC497, or 74AHC595 and 74AHC597. -- Ralph Don't use 74HC parts. Use 74HCT as these are TTL compatible. HC parts need

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2013-02-05 Thread Kip Shaffer
I would imagine that the LS chips are expensive because they are obsolete. I used them because they were in my junk drawer. I would recommend using the HCT series. I see that the pin names have changed a bit from the old datasheets. STCP = Storage Register Clock, I referred to as 'Latch',

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2013-01-28 Thread Kip Shaffer
Good idea. Check out http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Shift_Register_Port_Expander -Kip On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 06:14:56PM -0500, Kip wrote: Greetings all! My shift registers seem to be working well as a cheap

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2013-01-27 Thread Kip
Greetings all! My shift registers seem to be working well as a cheap and easy port expander! Apologies for how long it took me to write it up, but we are currently in the middle of the FIRST Robotics Challenge build season, so I'm spending almost every evening mentoring high school students.

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2013-01-27 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 06:14:56PM -0500, Kip wrote: Greetings all! My shift registers seem to be working well as a cheap and easy port expander! Apologies for how long it took me to write it That's really cool. A lot of people have asked about a simple scheme such as this over the years,

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2013-01-02 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Kip, Would you be willing to share your module. I am in need of a similar solution. Marius On 2012/12/28 02:54 PM, Kip Shaffer wrote: Gene, Not sure if you would be interested in the approach I'm using, but it may help you or others who are in a similar predicament. You can use shift

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2013-01-02 Thread Kip Shaffer
Absolutely! I just finished wiring up the real (non-prototype) interface card yesterday. As soon as I make sure everything is working, I'll post the wiring diagram and the HAL module. It appears that even the high-latency (1ms) shift register lines are fast enough to directly read the

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2013-01-02 Thread Marius Liebenberg
That sounds impressive. I am looking forward to seeing it. On 2013/01/02 10:03 PM, Kip Shaffer wrote: Absolutely! I just finished wiring up the real (non-prototype) interface card yesterday. As soon as I make sure everything is working, I'll post the wiring diagram and the HAL module. It

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:34:37 -0500, you wrote: Mainly the 3 weeks to a month it takes from mainland china for delivery. But since I've decided to sacrifice the one pin I was saving for a home pin, that is the path I'll take. That seems a long time? I've had several packages from China most

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread MC Cason
On 12/28/2012 03:10 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:34:37 -0500, you wrote: Mainly the 3 weeks to a month it takes from mainland china for delivery. But since I've decided to sacrifice the one pin I was saving for a home pin, that is the path I'll take. That seems a long

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Kip Shaffer
Gene, Not sure if you would be interested in the approach I'm using, but it may help you or others who are in a similar predicament. You can use shift registers to add as many additional lines as you want. For example, you can take 3 output lines on your parallel port, and turn them into 8,

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 December 2012 08:51:33 Kip Shaffer did opine: Great Kip, bookmarked FFR. Thanks. Gene, Not sure if you would be interested in the approach I'm using, but it may help you or others who are in a similar predicament. You can use shift registers to add as many additional lines

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Dave
On 12/28/2012 5:15 AM, MC Cason wrote: On 12/28/2012 03:10 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:34:37 -0500, you wrote: Mainly the 3 weeks to a month it takes from mainland china for delivery. But since I've decided to sacrifice the one pin I was saving for a home

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Przemek Klosowski
Also, there are lots of TTL to USB and RS232 converters already assembled on Ebay - very cheap. Cheap until you check the shipping... :( Nah, shipping is often free from HongKong; it just takes a while:

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-28 Thread Ben Potter
Also, there are lots of TTL to USB and RS232 converters already assembled on Ebay - very cheap. Cheap until you check the shipping... :( I've almost been caught out by this a few times - sometimes the shipping is reasonable (or free), sometimes the shipping is more than the cost of the

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-27 Thread Dave
Gene, I know you wanted to derive power from an RS232 port, but why not do a port steal from a USB port. Plenty of ma at 5vdc regulated. Also, there are lots of TTL to USB and RS232 converters already assembled on Ebay - very cheap. Dave On 12/27/2012 12:01 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 December 2012 22:00:41 Dave did opine: Gene, I know you wanted to derive power from an RS232 port, but why not do a port steal from a USB port. Plenty of ma at 5vdc regulated. Also, there are lots of TTL to USB and RS232 converters already assembled on Ebay - very cheap.

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 December 2012 02:32:37 Eric Keller did opine: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2012 22:00:41 Dave did opine: Also, there are lots of TTL to USB and RS232 converters already assembled on Ebay - very cheap.

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 December 2012 02:35:12 Roland Jollivet did opine: On 28 December 2012 05:05, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2012 22:00:41 Dave did opine: Gene, I know you wanted to derive power from an RS232 port, but why not do a port steal from a USB port.

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-26 Thread andy pugh
On 26 December 2012 22:45, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I am out of input pins on the cnc4pc C1G. How about using the serial port status pins? http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/serport.9.html -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] Help, out of inputs on my parport

2012-12-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 26 December 2012 23:50:52 andy pugh did opine: On 26 December 2012 22:45, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I am out of input pins on the cnc4pc C1G. How about using the serial port status pins? http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/serport.9.html Hadn't even

Re: [Emc-users] Help with 5i25 + 7i77

2012-05-14 Thread Eugenio Yime
Hi Peter, well, I made a mistake, I was counting from up to down and analog0 is forth pin from bottom. I test analog0 to analog4 and everything was fine, for analog5 I did halcmd:setp hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.1.spinena TRUE and it works fine too. Thanks for you help, Eugenio. On Sat, 2012-05-12 at

Re: [Emc-users] Help with 5i25 + 7i77

2012-05-12 Thread John Thornton
Have you applied power to the field power? If not no I/O... John On 5/12/2012 8:58 AM, Eugenio Yime Rodriguez wrote: Hi Everybody, I'm new to LinuxCNC and HAL, so before configuring AXIS I wanted to test my new card 5i25+7i77 with analog output. For that in mind, I did the following

Re: [Emc-users] Help with 5i25 + 7i77

2012-05-12 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 12 May 2012, Eugenio Yime Rodriguez wrote: Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 08:58:57 -0500 From: Eugenio Yime Rodriguez eugenio.y...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Help with

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-23 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 22.01.2012 um 19:56 schrieb John Prentice: I suggest you remove the existing emc2 packages and configure for normal install (not RIP) glade should work then, and likely the import issue goes away - having two different versions of emc installed in different places on the same

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-23 Thread andy pugh
On 23 January 2012 02:14, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: Your not on your own John!!  EMC, or should I now say LCNC, is written and annotated by Linux gurus That is not entirely true, I don't even know how to rename a file in Linux, but I have written some of the code, and

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-23 Thread Mark Wendt
On 01/22/2012 09:14 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote: Your not on your own John!! EMC, or should I now say LCNC, is written and annotated by Linux gurus who unfortunately think everyone is at the same guru level as them! Beware - of these gotcha's No jog in feedhold! - So don't break an insert or

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-23 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:36:52 -0500, you wrote: Did you ever think your attitude might have something to do with not getting some of your wish list implemented? The old more flies attracted with honey tends to apply. Tried that Mark - any requests, however put, simply get ignored if none of

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-22 Thread John Prentice
Greetings Am 21.01.2012 um 18:49 schrieb John Prentice: Another oddity is that Glade will not open glade-manual.ui as it says it cannot find the gladevcp catalog.. this a different issue - glade expects the catalog file under /usr/something and the catalogs arent installed when using RIP

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-22 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:56:32 -, you wrote: Oh dear - I am just discovering how little I understand. Your not on your own John!! EMC, or should I now say LCNC, is written and annotated by Linux gurus who unfortunately think everyone is at the same guru level as them! Beware - of these

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-21 Thread Michael Haberler
it looks like you have an existing emc installation and the python code picks up emc.so from that installation if it is run-in-place, it shouldnt import emc.so from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ did you run . emc2-dev/scripts/emc-environment? - Michael Am 21.01.2012 um 16:29 schrieb

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-21 Thread Spiderdab
maybe it is early, but could it be already cnc.so or something, in place of emc.so? -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-21 Thread Michael Haberler
you cannot possibly import the right file from the wrong directory Am 21.01.2012 um 17:35 schrieb Spiderdab: maybe it is early, but could it be already cnc.so or something, in place of emc.so? -- Try before you

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-21 Thread John Prentice
From: Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at snip it looks like you have an existing emc installation and the python code picks up emc.so from that installation if it is run-in-place, it shouldnt import emc.so from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ did you run .

Re: [Emc-users] Help with a GladeVCP startup error message

2012-01-21 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 21.01.2012 um 18:49 schrieb John Prentice: Another oddity is that Glade will not open glade-manual.ui as it says it cannot find the gladevcp catalog.. this a different issue - glade expects the catalog file under /usr/something and the catalogs arent installed when using RIP Do you

Re: [Emc-users] Help with HAL

2011-10-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011. gada 18. Okt. 23:27 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com rakstīja: On 18 October 2011 18:17, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Machine with 2 spindles (one moved by XY, the other - by UV) and stepper motors, running EMC2.4.6 I haven't tried all that hard to follow the HAL, but

Re: [Emc-users] Help with HAL

2011-10-19 Thread andy pugh
2011/10/19 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: Are there any ideas, why do U and V make a jump, when sel pins of mux components are set true? Well, all the emcmot.00. signal names confuse me. However the issue is probably that the X and U axes are not homed to the same positions is

Re: [Emc-users] Help with HAL

2011-10-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/10/19 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: 2011/10/19 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: Are there any ideas, why do U and V make a jump, when sel pins of mux components are set true? Well, all the emcmot.00. signal names confuse me. They were in hm2_stepper sample config, so I kept

Re: [Emc-users] Help with HAL

2011-10-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/10/19 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: You can toggle that calculation into a looped-back mux2 then use it into a sum2 or offset component. My plan requires 4 instances of offset component. I tried to do this way: loadrt offset count=4 addf offset.0

Re: [Emc-users] Help with HAL

2011-10-19 Thread Ben Jackson
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:54:45PM +0300, Viesturs L??cis wrote: But EMC starts with error: Debug file information: HAL: ERROR: function 'offset.0' not found avoti.hal:67: addf failed The offset component has two named threads, so you have offset.0.update-output offset.0.update-feedback

Re: [Emc-users] Help with HAL

2011-10-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 October 2011 19:54, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: addf offset.0                                   servo-thread What am I missing here? I guess this is something obvious and stupid... :-) http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/man/man9/offset.9.html There are two

Re: [Emc-users] Help with HAL

2011-10-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/10/19 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 19 October 2011 19:54, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: addf offset.0                                   servo-thread What am I missing here? I guess this is something obvious and stupid... :-)

Re: [Emc-users] Help with HAL

2011-10-18 Thread andy pugh
On 18 October 2011 18:17, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Machine with 2 spindles (one moved by XY, the other - by UV) and stepper motors, running EMC2.4.6 I haven't tried all that hard to follow the HAL, but I think you are at the level of complexity where a comp module might

Re: [Emc-users] Help with CabinetPartsPro and Router

2011-05-06 Thread Rogers
Stuart, Kent, Brian, Kim. Thank you for the advice and comments. CabinetPartsPro has the following processors wincnc techno syntec shopbot multicampost atc multicampost mach3 gorilla gorilla atc fox48 fox48 drill deskcnc camaster AXYZ_MC AXYZ Rgds Neil

Re: [Emc-users] Help with CabinetPartsPro and Router

2011-05-06 Thread Dave
I think I have loaded WinCNC Gcode into Mach3 with a little tweaking. I'd try both WinCNC and Mach3 and see what you get, change the . suffix of the gcode file and try and load it into EMC2. EMC2 will tell you what it doesn't understand. It might take a little gcode tweaking to get it to

Re: [Emc-users] Help with CabinetPartsPro and Router

2011-05-06 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 5/6/11, Rogers prax...@gmail.com wrote: Stuart, Kent, Brian, Kim. Thank you for the advice and comments. CabinetPartsPro has the following processors ... mach3 Mach3 (and turboCNC) are derivations from the original NIST EMC, whose original goal was actually standardization of data in the

Re: [Emc-users] Help with CabinetPartsPro and Router

2011-05-03 Thread Kim Kirwan
EMC2 gcode isn't too different from Fanuc, maybe you could select Fanuc output as a test and see how it treats you? I'll bet it wouldn't take much more fiddling beyond that. Or maybe you can copy the existing Fanuc settings to new EMC2 settings and then fiddle with them freely? Kim On

Re: [Emc-users] Help with CabinetPartsPro and Router

2011-05-03 Thread Stuart Stevenson
I agree with Kim. In our EMC2 controlled machines we use programs posted for Haas, Fadal, Fanuc and Yasnac controls. It takes very little, if any, adjustment to use them in the EMC2 controls. On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Kim Kirwan k...@kimkirwan.com wrote: EMC2 gcode isn't too different

Re: [Emc-users] Help with CabinetPartsPro and Router

2011-05-03 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/3/2011 8:39 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: I agree with Kim. In our EMC2 controlled machines we use programs posted for Haas, Fadal, Fanuc and Yasnac controls. It takes very little, if any, adjustment to use them in the EMC2 controls. On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Kim

Re: [Emc-users] Help with CabinetPartsPro and Router

2011-05-03 Thread Stuart Stevenson
there are gcode examples used for demos in the EMC2 install compare them to the code generated by your post processor you should need to (maybe) change a few of the G and M codes to allow the EMC2 control to function properly all the axis position numbers should work as they are be aware that

Re: [Emc-users] Help with CabinetPartsPro and Router

2011-05-02 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
What output options does the software have? If you can get it to generate a DXF, then you can use one of many DXFtoGCode tools. I have seen similar tools for HPGL output. On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Rogers prax...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have recently installed Cabinet Parts Pro

Re: [Emc-users] Help with PWM spindle control

2011-03-12 Thread Tony Zampini
Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:53 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Help with PWM spindle control On 10 March 2011 22:28, Tony Zampini zampi...@cox.net wrote: Am I correct to assume that the PWM output is different than the other outputs

Re: [Emc-users] Help with PWM spindle control

2011-03-12 Thread andy pugh
On 12 March 2011 16:18, Tony Zampini zampi...@cox.net wrote: addf pwmgen.make-pulses base-thread addf pwmgen.update servo-thread net spindle-cmd = motion.spindle-speed-out = pwmgen.0.value net spindle-enable = motion.spindle-on = pwmgen.0.enable net spindle-pwm = pwmgen.0.pwm setp

Re: [Emc-users] Help with PWM spindle control

2011-03-10 Thread Tony Zampini
: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Help with PWM spindle control gene heskett wrote: It is my finding that the line sequence counts. IOW: S100 M3 or S2500 m3 Always works. You must set the speed at least a line prior to issuing the M3 command. Huh? I have

Re: [Emc-users] Help with PWM spindle control

2011-03-10 Thread andy pugh
On 10 March 2011 22:28, Tony Zampini zampi...@cox.net wrote: Am I correct to assume that the PWM output is different than the other outputs (like step X, dir X, etc.), in that I *must* write hal code to get it to work? Not as far as I know. I am pretty sure that Stepconf ought to do all that

Re: [Emc-users] Help with PWM spindle control

2011-03-09 Thread andy pugh
On 9 March 2011 13:55, Tony Zampini zampi...@cox.net wrote: I'm attempting to set up EMC2 to generate a PWM signal for spindle speed control. I put a DVM on the PWM parallel port pin in hopes to see an average voltage of the PWM signal. But all I see is about 90mV, and it never changes. I

Re: [Emc-users] Help with PWM spindle control

2011-03-09 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:14:39 AM Tony Zampini did opine: Hi all, I'm attempting to set up EMC2 to generate a PWM signal for spindle speed control. I put a DVM on the PWM parallel port pin in hopes to see an average voltage of the PWM signal. But all I see is about 90mV, and it

Re: [Emc-users] Help with PWM spindle control

2011-03-09 Thread Jon Elson
gene heskett wrote: It is my finding that the line sequence counts. IOW: S100 M3 or S2500 m3 Always works. You must set the speed at least a line prior to issuing the M3 command. Huh? I have NEVER done this, I ALWAYS code it on the same line, either in my .ngc program or with

Re: [Emc-users] Help! Axis runs hidden

2010-09-19 Thread a
Hi it happen with me also. I turn off machine/EMC2 and when i restart next day EMC2 behave differently- constant error for all axis. while all axis work perfectly before. My solution for that problem - put CD back and install new copy of EMC2. Hi guys, today I started my machine and EMC2

Re: [Emc-users] Help! Axis runs hidden

2010-09-17 Thread Len Shelton
This same thing just happened to me. Try deleting the emc.var file. Len Hi guys, today I started my machine and EMC2 didn't start automatically as all the days (it is in the start-up section) so I tried to launch it manually and I got the error ECMC2 is still runnnig. Restart it. So I

Re: [Emc-users] Help! Axis runs hidden

2010-09-09 Thread Jon Elson
vh5...@libero.it wrote: Hi guys, today I started my machine and EMC2 didn't start automatically as all the days (it is in the start-up section) so I tried to launch it manually and I got the error ECMC2 is still runnnig. Restart it. So I realized that the process was still active. I

Re: [Emc-users] Help! Axis runs hidden

2010-09-09 Thread Eric Keller
If nothing is really wrong, you can find out by using the fg command from a terminal. Open a terminal and type: fg whatever_axis_real_name_is_here Nobody that uses EMC was on IRC tonight and I'm too lazy to walk to the basement to see if Axis is really named axis, so you'll have to figure that

Re: [Emc-users] help wit o words

2010-06-28 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
2010 5:23 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] help wit o words With the help of this web site.http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/trig_multiple_axis.htm I was able to come up with the following : (cutting two arcs at same time) #3=40 (step size for z axis arc

Re: [Emc-users] help wit o words

2010-06-27 Thread Jim Wilkin
With the help of this web site.http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/trig_multiple_axis.htm I was able to come up with the following : (cutting two arcs at same time) #3=40 (step size for z axis arc radians?) #4=#3 (x running total for z axis arc) #5=#3 (y running total for z axis arc)

Re: [Emc-users] help wit o words

2010-06-27 Thread Dave Caroline
That looks like it should possibly go on the wiki as a bit of useful code Dave Caroline -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first --

Re: [Emc-users] help wit o words

2010-06-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 June 2010, Jim Wilkin wrote: With the help of this web site.http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/trig_multiple_axis.htm I was able to come up with the following : (cutting two arcs at same time) #3=40 (step size for z axis arc radians?) #4=#3 (x running total for z axis arc)

Re: [Emc-users] help wit o words

2010-06-24 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I can't help with your specific problem, but I regularly use Arc Buddy to test my arc code... http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_EMC_G-Code_Generators#Arc _Buddy -Original Message- From: Jim Wilkin [mailto:james.a.wil...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 25 June 2010 6:22 AM

Re: [Emc-users] HELP: Xylotex 3-axis configuration

2010-06-14 Thread Shaffin Bhanji
I have not changed the jumpers on the board that I believe by default are set for 1/8 microsteps Shaffin. On 06/14/2010 07:53 PM, Ries van Twisk wrote: You are sure you don't have 10 times micro-stepping? just a guess... Ries On Jun 14, 2010, at 6:47 PM, Shaffin Bhanji wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] HELP: Xylotex 3-axis configuration

2010-06-14 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
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

Re: [Emc-users] HELP: Xylotex 3-axis configuration

2010-06-14 Thread Shaffin Bhanji
Ah, that sounds a bell. So to get full 5 inch of travel I just set the microstep to 8? If so, is there any danger in doing that? Shaffin. On 06/14/2010 08:05 PM, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Shaffin Bhanji wrote: I have not changed the jumpers on the board that I believe by default are

Re: [Emc-users] HELP: Xylotex 3-axis configuration

2010-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 June 2010, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: Ah, that sounds a bell. So to get full 5 inch of travel I just set the microstep to 8? If so, is there any danger in doing that? Shaffin. Not that I have found. I also use the xylotex, have both a 3 axis and a 4 axis. On 06/14/2010 08:05 PM,

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-29 Thread Michael Jones
Look what happens when I don't check email for a few days.. now I'm even more behind ;-) On May 22, 2010, at 11:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 23 May 2010, Michael Jones wrote: Ok.. so here's the weird thing... I completely purged the NVIDIA proprietary drivers from the system, and

Re: [Emc-users] Help[EMC-users] how pluto board works in EMC2

2010-05-27 Thread Andy Pugh
On 27 May 2010 05:38, sakthivel M sakthi...@fedlabs.in wrote: .Also i am using this pluto board in Linux EMC2 application EMC has two drivers for the Pluto board, for servo and step systems. See http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//man/man9/pluto_step.9.html

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-24 Thread Mark Wendt
On 05/23/2010 11:13 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Do we have any recommendations for a video card and driver that doesn't cause problems. I loaded a machine at work with Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I had two ATI cards on hand, a Rage, and a very high end ATI that had it's own power plugin from the computer's

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-24 Thread Mark Wendt
On 05/23/2010 06:18 PM, Dave wrote: From what I have gathered 10.4 suffers from similar video problems that 9.10 did. One issue is that 9.10 and apparently also 10.4 oftentimes can't access the video screen correctly to determine the screens capabilities. If you use the Vesa driver and

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-24 Thread Neil Baylis
There's also Matrox. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Mark Wendt mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil wrote: On 05/23/2010 06:18 PM, Dave wrote: From what I have gathered 10.4 suffers from similar video problems that 9.10 did. One issue is that 9.10 and apparently also 10.4 oftentimes can't

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-24 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I ran Ubuntu's update procedure and most of my screen problems went away. Actually, all I know/knew about have. You're right the size wouldn't go over 800x600 until after the update. Oh, an internal NVidia graphics device. On 05/24/2010 09:34 AM, Neil Baylis wrote: There's also Matrox.

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 May 2010, Michael Jones wrote: Ok.. so here's the weird thing... I completely purged the NVIDIA proprietary drivers from the system, and now OpenGL loads with the NV driver? Some weird incompatibility going on I suppose. But now I noticed that I don't have any sound.. can't win for

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-23 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
At 09:35 PM 5/22/2010, you wrote: On Saturday 22 May 2010, Michael Jones wrote: In fact, I have found that even the nv driver makes the latency figures suck. Not nearly as bad as the nvidia drivers though. When I first built up my micromill, I was not able to get it to move more than 3 or 4 IPM

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 May 2010, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: At 09:35 PM 5/22/2010, you wrote: On Saturday 22 May 2010, Michael Jones wrote: In fact, I have found that even the nv driver makes the latency figures suck. Not nearly as bad as the nvidia drivers though. When I first built up my micromill, I

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-23 Thread Dave
From what I have gathered 10.4 suffers from similar video problems that 9.10 did. One issue is that 9.10 and apparently also 10.4 oftentimes can't access the video screen correctly to determine the screens capabilities. If you use the Vesa driver and you know your screen resolution, you can

Re: [Emc-users] Help[EMC-users] how to interface g-code with parallel ports

2010-05-22 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Sakthi, On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:14 AM, sakthivel M sakthi...@fedlabs.in wrote: Hi, i am new to EMC2 may be my question is silly i have created a circle using g-code [G2 X0 Y0 I5] how can i interface this x and y axis to parallel ports. You have your answer to this question. EMC2 will

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-22 Thread Michael Jones
I'd love to be able to do that.. but I've misplaced the original CD and the ISO that made it. I made a bad assumption and decided to toss the ISO since I could always download it form SOMEWHERE again later. On May 21, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:50

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 22 May 2010, Michael Jones wrote: Thanks Jon, I may be able to figure out the part with the resolution.. even if I have to put up with lower resolution though, I need to get OpenGL working. I've heard that the NVIDIA drivers have some issues (causing latency ) with the realtime kernel

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-22 Thread Jon Elson
Michael Jones wrote: I may be able to figure out the part with the resolution.. even if I have to put up with lower resolution though, I need to get OpenGL working. I've heard that the NVIDIA drivers have some issues (causing latency ) with the realtime kernel and that the opensource NV

Re: [Emc-users] HELP?! Problems with a Reinstall of EMC 2.3 No OpenGL for Axis?

2010-05-22 Thread Michael Jones
Ok.. so here's the weird thing... I completely purged the NVIDIA proprietary drivers from the system, and now OpenGL loads with the NV driver? Some weird incompatibility going on I suppose. But now I noticed that I don't have any sound.. can't win for loosing... I guess I don't really

Re: [Emc-users] Help with gantrykins needed

2010-05-19 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Debug file information: Could not open command file 'test1.hal' 11282 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND Stopping realtime threads Unloading hal components do you have the file test1.hal in the directory with the .ini file? -- dos centavos

Re: [Emc-users] Help with gantrykins needed

2010-05-19 Thread Andy Pugh
On 19 May 2010 11:37, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: [ 2720.513056] config string '0x378 out  ' [ 2720.625328] gantrykins: exports duplicate symbol kinematicsInverse (owned by trivkins) You need to edit the HAL file and remove the reference to trivkins. -- atp

Re: [Emc-users] Help with gantrykins needed

2010-05-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Thanks, Steve and Andy, for Your effort! :) Andy, I already deleted the line, which loads the trivkins, but i have no idea, where that reference is still remaining. Steve, yes, the file is in the folder, which is created on my desktop by stepconf, the file is not open by some other application,

Re: [Emc-users] Help with gantrykins needed

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Joni
lot of snips 4) I edited following lines from Test1.hal before: loadrt trivkins loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT base_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]BASE_PERIOD servo_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]SERVO_PERIOD num_joints=[TRAJ]AXES after: loadrt num_joints=[TRAJ]AXES loadrt num_joints=[TRAJ]AXES ^^ that is

Re: [Emc-users] Help with gantrykins needed

2010-05-19 Thread Ian W. Wright
Viesturs, I think you may have a problem with capitalisation of the file name - remember, Linux is CASE SENSITIVE. The program is looking for test1.hal with a small 't' - if your file name starts with a capital 'T' the program will think it is a different file.. Ian Viesturs La-cis wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Help with gantrykins needed

2010-05-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Alex, Andy, thank You a lot! Removed the line: loadrt num_joints=[TRAJ]AXES from Test1.hal and it worked. Before that I also removed the line: HALFILE = Test1.hal from the Test1.ini file, but it didn't work - displayed error message, where i found the line: Debug file information: Invalid

Re: [Emc-users] Help with Kinematics

2009-12-17 Thread Yi-Shin Li
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Dave Fansolato dfansol...@icubed.bizwrote: I am interested in using EMC2 to control a homemade SCARA type arm. My question is how do I configure the arm lengths and required info for the kinematics to be correct. Do I select the scara setup that is already

Re: [Emc-users] Help with Kinematics

2009-12-17 Thread Yi-Shin Li
Hello Dave, I've successfully helped 2 of my customers to control their SCARA with EMC2. Here's one of the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF6dYXo2CeE I'm willing to provide professional consulting service to help you integrating SCARA with EMC2. Sincerely yours, Yishin Li -- Arais

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