Re: [Emc-users] Timing belt system

2013-06-15 Thread Andy Pugh
On 15 Jun 2013, at 06:38, Cecil Thomas wctho...@chartertn.net wrote: Does anyone have any reason for picking the L series over the T10 due to cost, availability, load capacity etc between the two either for the belts themselves or for the pulleys. I would choose purely on the basis of

Re: [Emc-users] Timing belt system

2013-06-15 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/6/15 Andy Pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 15 Jun 2013, at 06:38, Cecil Thomas wctho...@chartertn.net wrote: Does anyone have any reason for picking the L series over the T10 due to cost, availability, load capacity etc between the two either for the belts themselves or for the pulleys. I

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Ed Nisley
On 06/13/2013 06:12 PM, Charles Buckley wrote: 1) None of the current GUIs are really good for this, I've been using http://gcode.ws/ to visualize the actual paths within each layer, but that's probably too weird for most folks. Keeping the spool sync'd with the filament feed rate Recently

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/6/15 Ed Nisley ed.08.nis...@pobox.com I really want to use automagic probing to compensate for platform shape positioning, because there don't seem any cheap, flat, removable hotplates out there. Methinks this one is easier to fix in the kinematics than in the metal; It seems that

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Ed Nisley
On 06/15/2013 08:43 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: take a look at probekins, That's exactly why I'm so enthused about automagic platform probing: somebody else wrote the kinematics module! [grin] -- Ed softsolder.com --

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/6/15 Ed Nisley ed.08.nis...@pobox.com On 06/15/2013 08:43 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: take a look at probekins, That's exactly why I'm so enthused about automagic platform probing: somebody else wrote the kinematics module! [grin] Yes, yet another awesome feature from mr. Haberler. It

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/15/2013 8:01 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2013/6/15 Ed Nisley ed.08.nis...@pobox.com On 06/15/2013 08:43 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: take a look at probekins, That's exactly why I'm so enthused about automagic platform probing: somebody else

[Emc-users] Smart serial 5i20 + 7i44 + 7i33 + 7i44

2013-06-15 Thread Klemen Ozebek
Dear, my smart serial interface is not working on 5i20 FPGA card, on connector 0 I have my 7i33 conected and on connector 1 7i44 and serialy connected 7i70. Is there a problem with 5i20 firmware? I used SVST8_4 and also try SVSS4_8 which was not found? Best regards. Klemen

[Emc-users] GCode errors on simple turning exercise.

2013-06-15 Thread John Alexander Stewart
Can someone look over my shoulder and tell me what's up? Example 5 on http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Example_G-Code_Programs; Numbered Parameter #400. If I change it from 1 to (say) 1.1, or 0.5, LinuxCNC fails with an error No characters found in reading real value which appears to

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Buckley
Keeping the spool sync'd with the filament feed rate Recently bumped on my priority list: a powered filament feeder that automagically maintains the loop feeding the extruder, specifically to eliminate the usual feed tube with all the usual problems. The drive gear/pulley/wheel ramming filament

Re: [Emc-users] Smart serial 5i20 + 7i44 + 7i33 + 7i44

2013-06-15 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 15 Jun 2013, Klemen Ozebek wrote: Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:40:24 +0200 From: Klemen Ozebek klemen.oze...@gmail.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Smart serial 5i20 + 7i44 + 7i33 + 7i44 Dear, my smart serial interface is

[Emc-users] historical emc1 setup info

2013-06-15 Thread Lawrence Glaister
Hi guys, With all the interest of late in the history of emc, I found I still have an ancient web page up on how to build and install emc/rcslib on Redhat 6.2 (from 12-Jan-2001). http://members.shaw.ca/cncstuff/emc.html I tried to access the referenced the sources via CVS on sourceforge, but

[Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've played with the various interfaces for LinuxCNC on the BeagleBone (tunneling X display data to a remote system), and touchy seems to be the best choice from a CPU usage and system integration standpoint (the 'Bone can support driving small LCD

Re: [Emc-users] historical emc1 setup info

2013-06-15 Thread John Kasunich
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013, at 02:42 PM, Lawrence Glaister wrote: Hi guys, With all the interest of late in the history of emc, I found I still have an ancient web page up on how to build and install emc/rcslib on Redhat 6.2 (from 12-Jan-2001). http://members.shaw.ca/cncstuff/emc.html I

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Ed Nisley
On 06/15/2013 12:04 PM, Charles Buckley wrote: you could treat the spool feed as an additional axis whose feed rate is the same as the 4th axis. I think that would come heartbreakingly close to working, because the feed rate depends so much on the effective diameter of the gear/pulley/wheel.

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:47:15PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I can run the touchy simulation configuration, but I have not been able to get the loaded gcode to run (presumably because I can't press the start button that isn't there). So do I need real hardware or am I missing some

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/15/2013 2:37 PM, Chris Radek wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 01:47:15PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I can run the touchy simulation configuration, but I have not been able to get the loaded gcode to run (presumably because I can't

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Ed Nisley
On 06/15/2013 09:01 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: I have no idea, how difficult that actually might be. Given the requirement that it match the extruder nozzle height to within 0.05 mm (more or less) over a wide temperature range, it's a *very* tough problem. I think separating the nozzle height

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/15/2013 2:31 PM, Ed Nisley wrote: On 06/15/2013 12:04 PM, Charles Buckley wrote: you could treat the spool feed as an additional axis whose feed rate is the same as the 4th axis. I think that would come heartbreakingly close to working,

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread Dewey Garrett
there is a little gui that can be used to simulate one or more boolean pins: example: $ sim_pin touchy.cycle-start touchy.abort (If using a rip build, source scripts/rip-environment in a new terminal) Available by commit 8c73b00fb3 in versions =2.5 $ git tag --contains 8c73b00fb3 v2.5.2

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy without physical controls

2013-06-15 Thread andy pugh
On 15 June 2013 19:47, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: I've played with the various interfaces for LinuxCNC on the BeagleBone (tunneling X display data to a remote system), and touchy seems to be the best choice from a CPU usage and system integration standpoint Have you

[Emc-users] Anyone seen a failure like this?

2013-06-15 Thread Tom Easterday
I have an Atom 2800 motherboard system running 10.04 and 2.5.2 freshly downloaded and installed from the LiveCD. I have a simple configuration generated by Stepconf Wizard and only minor tweaks to make estop work. This problem also happens when I try the sim/axis and sim/tklinuxcnc configs.

Re: [Emc-users] Anyone seen a failure like this?

2013-06-15 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 16.06.2013 um 00:52 schrieb Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu: I have an Atom 2800 motherboard system running 10.04 and 2.5.2 freshly downloaded and installed from the LiveCD. I have a simple configuration generated by Stepconf Wizard and only minor tweaks to make estop work. This

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Charles Buckley
I think that would come heartbreakingly close to working, because the feed rate depends so much on the effective diameter of the gear/pulley/wheel. A teeny difference in hobbing will eventually (i.e., over the course of a dozen hours) cause the filament loop to either vanish or spill off the

Re: [Emc-users] Machinekit LinuxCNC-on-BeagleBone Beta Release

2013-06-15 Thread Ed Nisley
On 06/15/2013 07:50 PM, Charles Buckley wrote: a diff between the A axis and the B-spool axis for amount of material feed Ah, but then we must quibble about the difference coefficient, which you'd have to measure per filament, then have to worry about diameter changes messing it up. If you

Re: [Emc-users] Anyone seen a failure like this?

2013-06-15 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 06/15/2013 04:52 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: I have an Atom 2800 motherboard system running 10.04 and 2.5.2 freshly downloaded and installed from the LiveCD. I have a simple configuration generated by Stepconf Wizard and only minor tweaks to make estop work. This problem also happens when