Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-features-master

it looks like a path problem Gene, it's trying to find the path to features.ui if it runs from the command line , then check the path in your ini ( dont worry i had the same problem ) where have you placed linuxcnc-features ? did you run the setup On 4 January 2016 at 19:23, Gene Heskett

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

On 1/5/2016 12:32 AM, Dave Caroline wrote: > I had problems in this area, I think it is not a feature but a bug > that an rotary axis cannot be set to 0 or be infinite in its > rotations, the wrapped rotary docs as an option just seemed wrong for > this when I last read them a few years ago. >

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

On Tuesday 05 January 2016 02:32:51 Dave Caroline wrote: > I had problems in this area, I think it is not a feature but a bug > that an rotary axis cannot be set to 0 or be infinite in its > rotations, the wrapped rotary docs as an option just seemed wrong for > this when I last read them a few

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-features-master

On Tuesday 05 January 2016 03:31:58 Sarah Armstrong wrote: > it looks like a path problem Gene, > it's trying to find the path to features.ui > > if it runs from the command line , then check the path in your ini > ( dont worry i had the same problem ) If by running from a cd to that directory,

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

On Tuesday 05 January 2016 06:34:12 Dave Caroline wrote: > Here is an example of with and without limits in a trunnion design > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CNC-Rotary-Table-Dividing-Head-Rotational-Ax >is-4th-5th-Axis-A-B-Axis-100MM-Chuck-/161679996211 > > Dave Ya got me Dave. :) W/O moving the

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-features-master

On Tuesday 05 January 2016 11:24:43 Sarah Armstrong wrote: Back on the list for the archives. > your loading the glade file totally different to me > > in > [display] > GLADEVCP = -U --catalog=mill > /home/sarah/linuxcnc/linuxcnc-features/features.ui > your loading into a tab i think , And

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:12:15AM +, andy pugh wrote: > > Re-homing the rotary would reset the absolute position. > There are HAL pins to home each axis. (halui.joint.N.home bit in) > You can drive a bit pin from G-code. > So I think it could be done, but it seems like a kludge. You can't

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

On 01/05/2016 03:33 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I've not seen a rotary that could not turn forever. Can you supply a URL > to such a device? > > Yes, stacked rotary axes. We use one at work. they have a little Yuasa rotary table bolted to a HUGE Yuasa rotary table. The small table has a

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-features-master

On Tuesday 05 January 2016 11:54:34 Sarah Armstrong wrote: > in your hal file , how are you loading features.ui > halcmd loadusr -Wn gladevcp gladevcp -c gladevcp -x 73400472 -U > --catalog=mill features.ui > this is wrong ? theirs no path shown > > this is all you need now > GLADEVCP = -U

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-features-master

> Does Nick have a web page where I might be able to read it first hand? See new post with Subject: features_preview_3 -- Dewey Garrett -- ___ Emc-users mailing list

Re: [Emc-users] linuxcnc-features-master

On Tuesday 05 January 2016 06:11:25 Sarah Armstrong wrote: back on list for archival purposes. > they have changed the way it installs so :- > i have my version located at /home/sarah/linuxcnc/linuxcnc-features > > so my added line to [display] section of ini is > GLADEVCP = -U --catalog=mill >

Re: [Emc-users] Another crazy idea?

On 01/06/2016 03:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] > The idea being that when that drain goes low, it will charge the .22, > thru the diode, essentially maintaining that charge state. But when > LCNC is stopped, that drain will go high (to 25 volts) as the supply is > turned off, and as it

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

On 5 Jan 2016, at 13:30, andy pugh wrote: > On 5 January 2016 at 13:11, Sarah Armstrong > wrote: >> or >> 999,999,999,999,999,967,336,168,804,116,691,273,849,533,185,806,555,472,917,961,779,471,295,845,921,727,862,608,739,868,455,469,056.00 > > You wouldn't want

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

Just leave the limits out of the ini for the rotary. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/config/ini-config.html#_axis__lt_num_gt_section JT On 1/5/2016 4:43 PM, Marcus Bowman wrote: > > Anyway; for now I will try much larger limits on the odd occasion when I need > to do this kind of rotary

[Emc-users] features_preview_3

TL:DR ? try the features_preview_3 branch (deb or rip) There are several repositories for 'linuxcnc-features'; the most recent 'features' developments have been in: http://fernv.github.io/linuxcnc-features/ The zip and tar files available from that link appear to be based on commit: commit

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

Here is an example of with and without limits in a trunnion design http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CNC-Rotary-Table-Dividing-Head-Rotational-Axis-4th-5th-Axis-A-B-Axis-100MM-Chuck-/161679996211 Dave On 05/01/2016, andy pugh wrote: > On 5 January 2016 at 04:37, Cecil Thomas

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

>I had problems in this area, I think it is not a feature but a bug >that an rotary axis cannot be set to 0 or be infinite in its If [AXIS_n]MAX_LIMIT is missing, the value used is 1e99

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

Gentlemen, On my bridge mill 5 axis Fanuc 15mb XYZ linear axes BC head with the B axis riding on the C axis - picture of same but newer machine http://mightyusa.com/b-5000%205bc.html Absolute encoders on all axes C axis has slip rings - there is no need to unwind while cutting - the axis can

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

or 999,999,999,999,999,967,336,168,804,116,691,273,849,533,185,806,555,472,917,961,779,471,295,845,921,727,862,608,739,868,455,469,056.00 On 5 January 2016 at 13:03, Dewey Garrett wrote: > >I had problems in this area, I think it is not a feature but a bug > >that an rotary

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

Dewey I had no idea that size limit existed, same default for negative? Maybe time for an update to the docs? even removal of the standard from stepconf (or at least ask the user) Dave --

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

On 5 January 2016 at 13:11, Sarah Armstrong wrote: > or > 999,999,999,999,999,967,336,168,804,116,691,273,849,533,185,806,555,472,917,961,779,471,295,845,921,727,862,608,739,868,455,469,056.00 You wouldn't want to get anywhere near this limit, though. The real

Re: [Emc-users] Resetting rotary movement count

On 5 Jan 2016, at 22:48, John Thornton wrote: > Just leave the limits out of the ini for the rotary. > > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/config/ini-config.html#_axis__lt_num_gt_section > > JT Thanks, John. I see the emails from Dewey and Jon as well. I met the same problem again this

[Emc-users] Another crazy idea?

Greetings everybody; I have the soft start working, but have found that the capacitors are forming up to a very low leakage since they are operating at about half to 1 volt above their labeled voltage, which if it was turned on every day, the inrush probably would not trip a 15 amp breaker.