Re: [Emc-users] Question about Raspberry Pi 4 reliability

2021-06-13 Thread Feral Engineer
I'm running a 4gb pi4b on my Emco lathe with minimal issue. My pulses per unit are really high because of the screw pitch and belt reduction from the emco factory, but it still seems to get along nicely with the rest of the machine. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials

Re: [Emc-users] Question about Raspberry Pi 4 reliability

2021-06-13 Thread Feral Engineer
developers and users) while simultaneously trying to sell your own product is breaking a cardinal rule in good sales tactics. You should never belittle a competitor product to make yours look better, you should provide information about your product that shows key points on how it's better. Phil T.

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC in use on 5axis

2021-06-20 Thread Feral Engineer
Would you share your machine files? I haven't set up 5x kinematics in lcnc before and I'm curious of what the user files look like Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC in use on 5axis

2021-06-20 Thread Feral Engineer
Are you using kinematic support and tool center point control in LinuxCNC or just relying on cam software to do the trajectory calculations from tool tip to rotational center? Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c

Re: [Emc-users] G28 behaviour

2021-06-25 Thread Feral Engineer
. The posted code in fusion is just ugly, no real reason to keep flopping back and forth like that. Fusion posts are JavaScript, so they're not terrible to modify. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help

Re: [Emc-users] G28 behaviour

2021-06-25 Thread Feral Engineer
nce status indicator and allow the tool change, even though it's the exact same spot. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengine

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle Control

2021-06-15 Thread Feral Engineer
Lathe has vfd, router is running a superpid with a Hitachi m12vc, mill is using a servo motor I manually turned my Hitachi router on and off until the pandemic hit, then I started by adding a relay to control it, which then became my obsession with industrial electronics  Phil T. The Feral

Re: [Emc-users] using m98 fanuc subprograms

2021-05-17 Thread Feral Engineer
I've tried this and it worked for me. Let me pull up the info and I'll get back to you. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Mon, May 17, 2021, 5:44 PM andrew beck wrote: > hey guys >

Re: [Emc-users] using m98 fanuc subprograms

2021-05-17 Thread Feral Engineer
Here ya go. Working programs, hot off the press. Main program 1230.ngc, M98 call program 1234.ngc. Make sure you have SUBROUTINE_PATH = /home/whatever_sub_path_you_use/linuxcnc/nc_files/ in your ini file or it won't find it under the RS274NGC section Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my

Re: [Emc-users] Freenode Shenagins

2021-05-19 Thread Feral Engineer
We need to get with the times and have a tiktok that clickbaits to our onlyfans... I kid... Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Wed, May 19, 2021, 9:00 PM Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Andy, &g

Re: [Emc-users] Looking for ways to connect external pots up to axis. (similar to how gmoccapy works)

2021-05-24 Thread Feral Engineer
I've got this, but it's on my PI inside my emco... I'd swear I sent it to you a few weeks ago. Check the Facebook chat. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Mon, May 24, 2021, 3:49 PM andrew beck

Re: [Emc-users] Looking for ways to connect external pots up to axis. (similar to how gmoccapy works)

2021-05-24 Thread Feral Engineer
halui.rapid-override.counts Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Mon, May 24, 2021, 3:49 PM andrew beck wrote: > Hey everyone. > > I have pots set up as external overrides on my machine. >

Re: [Emc-users] Problem with tapping

2021-05-24 Thread Feral Engineer
G99 Z-1. F0.0625 R.1 X1. Y1. X2. Y.5 G80 G91 G28 Z0 M30 Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Mon, May 24, 2021, 5:29 PM Ed wrote: > Following is a snippet of a program using G33.1 > > The f

Re: [Emc-users] Touch screen for LinuxCNC

2021-06-01 Thread Feral Engineer
That's the one. I was getting them for 189/199usd before the chip shortage. I use gmoccapy on my lathe and alternate between gmoccapy and probe basic on my router. Now that dragon has a 1920 option, I may try that as well. I tinker, so I'm forever trying new stuff. Phil T. The Feral Engineer

Re: [Emc-users] Touch screen for LinuxCNC

2021-06-01 Thread Feral Engineer
I have a planar pct2235 and an asus vct229. Recommend the asus. The planar has an issue where if you jog from the screen buttons and multi touch on accident, the jog button latches and takes off. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics

Re: [Emc-users] Touch screen for LinuxCNC

2021-06-02 Thread Feral Engineer
You sound like my grandfather. He's 88 and still going strong. Be careful out there, we like having you on this side of things. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 3:00 PM Gene

Re: [Emc-users] homing off glass scale

2021-05-22 Thread Feral Engineer
I'm allergic to shrimp, so I just kept scrolling  Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sat, May 22, 2021, 8:16 PM dave engvall wrote: > Talk about having a bad day. Sure glad the extras were j

Re: [Emc-users] homing off glass scale

2021-05-22 Thread Feral Engineer
Well, i mean there is that guy AvE on YouTube that cut a potato on a bridgeport... Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sat, May 22, 2021, 9:58 PM Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2

Re: [Emc-users] G28 behaviour

2021-06-25 Thread Feral Engineer
That's exactly the behavior that g28 follows on industrial controls. Try g28z2. (positive) and it'll move up without having to switch to incremental Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my

Re: [Emc-users] G28 behaviour

2021-06-25 Thread Feral Engineer
Linuxcnc to support system a b and c. G92 to set max spindle speed just feels so wrong to me  Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com

Re: [Emc-users] About the 7i76E and possible DB25 expansion cards

2021-06-30 Thread Feral Engineer
and build circuits that way also. I don't think CL gets the respect it deserves. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer

Re: [Emc-users] About the 7i76E and possible DB25 expansion cards

2021-06-26 Thread Feral Engineer
are using the 7i77 that way with analog and there's the 7i97 that would be fun to check out as well for analog setups. Curious if there's any kind of weirdness that happens using step pulse with encoder vs just using analog signal. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine

Re: [Emc-users] About the 7i76E and possible DB25 expansion cards

2021-06-26 Thread Feral Engineer
actual with p =0, changing P results in a runaway in most cases). I'm wondering what the magic net command might be to get everything working so I could thread on my lathe. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c

Re: [Emc-users] Compiling a component.

2021-06-26 Thread Feral Engineer
I've been looking for some good component information as well. The documentation didn't really point me in the right direction last time I looked at it. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support

Re: [Emc-users] Code of Conduct

2021-06-30 Thread Feral Engineer
ill have the issue of deciding whether or not to give someone the "down and dirty" or the "step by step" explanation, which is why I always ask people their current level of knowledge and train by my "3E" method - explain, example, execute. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Chec

Re: [Emc-users] Code of Conduct

2021-06-30 Thread Feral Engineer
That much I'll definitely agree with! Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer On Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 2:03 PM Scott

[Emc-users] Heidenhain LS403 scale

2021-03-26 Thread Feral Engineer
Does anyone have a working solution for using Heidenhain LS403 scales with LinuxCNC? They're 2 phase sinusoidal feedback. Trying to connect to a mesa 7i95. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer

Re: [Emc-users] Heidenhain LS403 scale

2021-03-26 Thread Feral Engineer
Thank you, sir! Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 5:39 PM Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Feral Engineer wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16

Re: [Emc-users] Rpi4B OS

2021-04-06 Thread Feral Engineer
Andy, Have you experienced crashes in lcnc on a pi4b? I've had the software bomb out on me a bunch of times, mainly when tapping the touchscreen too quickly. Do you have any recommended settings for the best speed and reliability? Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials

[Emc-users] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-03 Thread Feral Engineer
Finally getting back around to messing with this mechanical/prox home issue. See attached video link. I show what it is doing and explain what I want it to do. Thanks in advance for your help https://youtu.be/XVz6v2YNXJQ Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
Andy, Joint.0.motor-pos-fb is tied to 7i76 stepgen.00.position-fb Getting video of the situation now Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 11:04 AM Feral Engineer wrote: > Tha

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
times. Happy international carrot day, everybody! (Yes, it's really a thing) Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 11:59 AM Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, De

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
sure. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 12:25 PM andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 16:26, Feral Engineer > wrote: > > But that's how I have it set up. The

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
write my own subroutines to make it do what I want. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 10:14 AM Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, Feral Engineer wrote: > &g

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
to zero. I'm on my way to go get the information Andy requested. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 10:51 AM Scott Harwell via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
That might be worth a try. Is it safe to load the build bot master repository on a pi? Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 11:38 AM Dewey Garrett wrote: > The git *mas

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
h. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 4:45 AM Frank Tkalcevic wrote: > What I'm seeing (and I'm not a linuxcnc expert) looks correct. After the > homing sequence

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
I did it from the buildbot buster repository and it worked a treat  Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 12:35 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 04 April 2021 11:42:24 Fe

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 10:49 AM andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 15:28, Feral Engineer > wrote: > > I'm driving the steppers with the stepgens on the 7i76e, but w

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
But that's how I have it set up. The prox is set as encoder index and it finds it but after it finds it, it goes back to the position the machine was at during startup. That's what I'm trying to fix. How do i fix this? Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 11:37 AM Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, Feral Engineer wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2021 11:23:32 -0400 > > From: Feral E

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
THANK YOU DEWEY GARRETT!! IT WORKS! Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 11:50 AM Feral Engineer wrote: > You don't know how my brain works, though... I'm obsessive to the

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
You don't know how my brain works, though... I'm obsessive to the max. If it can be done, I'll spend days having at it to make it work. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 11:48 AM

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Feral Engineer
, that's how I want it to work! Why should fanuc and siemens get all the glory? Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 12:19 PM Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, Feral Engin

Re: [Emc-users] Gear cutting setup on low-cost HF mill??

2021-03-11 Thread Feral Engineer
machine). You can get a cutter made up to cut the profile, but it's one tooth at a time and very slow. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 1:31 AM Chris Albertson wrote: > I'm look

Re: [Emc-users] Gear cutting setup on low-cost HF mill??

2021-03-11 Thread Feral Engineer
Oohh that looks like fun! Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 2:18 PM andy pugh wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 19:11, Feral Engineer > wrote: > > > > As

Re: [Emc-users] Gear cutting setup on low-cost HF mill??

2021-03-11 Thread Feral Engineer
it but can't supply the actual logic, it's embedded in the macro executor. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 1:31 AM Chris Albertson wrote: > I'm looking for advice on g

Re: [Emc-users] Probe recommendations.

2021-03-14 Thread Feral Engineer
. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 3:11 PM wrote: > Does their probe use the traditional 3-ball/3-groove Renishaw design or...? > > -Original Message- > From: Feral Engi

Re: [Emc-users] Probe recommendations.

2021-03-14 Thread Feral Engineer
I hear ya. I get pissed when I make an expensive bonehead move, also. I contacted the mfr and he wants to know what other information you would like to know, so he can put together a data sheet for you. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics

Re: [Emc-users] Probe recommendations.

2021-03-14 Thread Feral Engineer
a wired and RF version soon as well. https://www.emgprecision.com/ifi-p4-touch-probe Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 2:15 PM andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 at 17

Re: [Emc-users] Probe recommendations.

2021-03-14 Thread Feral Engineer
Hey Ken, he said email him and he'll get you what you're looking for. As I said, wired versions soon to some and i'll be doing a teardown and complete review on the tool setter soon. i...@emgprecision.com Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem home switches on single axis

2021-03-01 Thread Feral Engineer
initialize a home sequence, it'll do what I expect it to do, but if it's (as an example) 100mm from the home switch, it will search for the switch, touch, back away, fine feed until it finds the closest proximity pulse, then rapid back 100mm, so it's not very robust at this point. " Phil T. The Fer

Re: [Emc-users] pre-programmed keys or macros ?

2021-02-28 Thread Feral Engineer
revent crashing into anything) > > thanks!! > > > Ron > > > > On 2/28/21 3:27 PM, Feral Engineer wrote: > > You can make a gladevcp or pyvcp button that activates a macro/mdi > command. > > > > See if this is helpful > > > > http://wiki.li

Re: [Emc-users] pre-programmed keys or macros ?

2021-02-28 Thread Feral Engineer
You can make a gladevcp or pyvcp button that activates a macro/mdi command. See if this is helpful http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Adding_Custom_MDI_Buttons On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 7:33 PM R C wrote: > I think I figured it out partially: > > > G0 G54 X0 Y0 > > G0 G54 Z0 > > > takes me

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem home switches on single axis

2021-03-01 Thread Feral Engineer
I'll take a look. Sounds like this might be very helpful. Thanks a bunch! Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 2:59 PM Marius Alksnys wrote: > I think I solved that prob

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem home switches on single axis

2021-02-28 Thread Feral Engineer
e if there's a correlation, but that's been my experience. I'm going to disconnect them and see if it's still crashing. I just wanted to try and use the proximity sensors because they were installed on the machine originally and I thought they would be beneficial. Thanks again! Phil T. The Feral Enginee

Re: [Emc-users] Debian gui lockups on fresh install

2021-03-04 Thread Feral Engineer
So new discovery. If I plug in an external monitor, both displays work perfectly. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Thu, Mar 4, 2021, 11:19 PM Feral Engineer wrote: > Yes, I know I'm go

Re: [Emc-users] isolcpus?

2021-03-07 Thread Feral Engineer
I usually change isolcpus in my grub file under /etc/default. You can use sudo nano /etc/default/grub, ctrl+s to save, ctrl+x to close, then accept the change with sudo update-grub Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c

[Emc-users] Tandem home switches on single axis

2021-02-28 Thread Feral Engineer
the actual home position on a 1 ppr encoder of sorts. I've just been using the mechanical switches, but I'd like to try and get the proximity sensors working during the home sequence. Any suggestions on where to start getting this to work? Thanks in advance Phil The Feral Engineer Check out my

Re: [Emc-users] Tandem home switches on single axis

2021-03-01 Thread Feral Engineer
ent my configuration in a follow-up email last night. Thank you Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 11:51 AM Jon Elson wrote: > On 02/28/2021 10:21 PM, Feral Engineer wro

Re: [Emc-users] Debian gui lockups on fresh install

2021-03-05 Thread Feral Engineer
Thanks Jon The funny thing is plugging into an external monitor makes it (the laptop display) run fine, but if i unplug the external monitor, it doesn't work again. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer

[Emc-users] Lathe spindle vfd settings

2021-03-05 Thread Feral Engineer
Can someone send me a copypasta of their spindle hal stuff? Pid, ff0,1,2 encoder feedback, all that? Gonna tackle the one on my machine but I've never done it before, so a starting point would be helpful. TIA Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe spindle vfd settings

2021-03-05 Thread Feral Engineer
I've got 2 speed pulleys on mine 2000 and 4000rpm. Just want to try and fine tune the rpm and see if there's a way to soften the acc/dec without messing with the vfd (don't have the removable programming panel). Plus, i like to tinker with stuff to learn more about it. Phil T. The Feral Engineer

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe spindle vfd settings

2021-03-05 Thread Feral Engineer
Lenze 8200 vector from an emco pc turn 55 Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 7:34 PM andy pugh wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 at 00:07, Feral Engineer > wrote: > >

[Emc-users] Debian gui lockups on fresh install

2021-03-04 Thread Feral Engineer
this is happening, ctrl+alt+f1 will give me a login shell and that all works perfectly. I believe it's a faulty gpu driver but I'm not sure how to fix it. Any suggestions? Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe spindle vfd settings

2021-03-05 Thread Feral Engineer
Thanks Gene My emco is running a pi 4 as well. Model b, 4gb. What kind of latency figures are you getting on your servo thread? I find mine to be a bit finicky unless I keep wifi off Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe spindle vfd settings

2021-03-05 Thread Feral Engineer
Thanks again, sir :) Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 10:38 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2021 21:17:12 Feral Engineer wrote: > > > Thanks Gene >

Re: [Emc-users] jerk control

2021-08-17 Thread Feral Engineer
I'm curious what the current level of block lookahead is on lcnc compared to commercial controls. Anyone know the amount of data buffering that it can handle? Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help

Re: [Emc-users] jerk control

2021-08-23 Thread Feral Engineer
/dec settings that will either rattle your fillings or smooth out sharp corners to be razor perfect. I've not tried to run any of my lcnc machines at speeds that would make me see an eminent need for this functionality, but I'm sure it would be a welcomed addition. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check

Re: [Emc-users] trying to derate yaskawa drives from SGDB 20 VD drives to run size 15 motors

2021-08-02 Thread Feral Engineer
Honestly, I would email yaskawa and find out for sure. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer On Mon, Aug 2, 2021, 4

Re: [Emc-users] Emergeny stop, and maybe normal stop

2021-08-01 Thread Feral Engineer
With safety relays, they require an external reset after being released. Every machine tool I've been on in the last 20 years operates in this fashion. Release estop Press "power on" or "drive enable" button to reset the pilz Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCN

Re: [Emc-users] Work Coordinate Editor?

2021-10-21 Thread Feral Engineer
Gmoccapy has a work offset page, so maybe reverse engineer where that's coming from? Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com

Re: [Emc-users] Home with home switch and index

2021-09-28 Thread Feral Engineer
no_home_index or something like that which worked perfectly. Here's a video https://youtu.be/6_CrfcJXfDw Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com

Re: [Emc-users] Probing

2021-10-24 Thread Feral Engineer
I use work with probe, but I am going to customize the routines a little to work the way I want them to and Andrew Beck I believe uses his probes. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my

Re: [Emc-users] Choice of CNC conversions

2021-12-27 Thread Feral Engineer
an example, an input sniffer to assign hal pins to button presses on a game controller or hardware buttons on a Mesa card would be kinda cool to implement. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support

Re: [Emc-users] Choice of CNC conversions

2021-12-24 Thread Feral Engineer
I kinda want to help with development for free, I'm just lost on where to start in the millions of lines of code  Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee

[Emc-users] Viewing variables (system parameters)

2021-07-17 Thread Feral Engineer
,) but not using (debug,). Is there a way to do this? If not, I'm sure it's possible in some way, no? Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction

Re: [Emc-users] Code of Conduct

2021-07-18 Thread Feral Engineer
let it spoil your whole day. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer On Sun, Jul 18, 2021, 6:20 PM Mark Wendt wrote

[Emc-users] Features setting in ini

2021-07-18 Thread Feral Engineer
Anyone have a list of what the values in the features ini setting pertain to? Anytime I include features, i just set it to features=30, like verser "work with probe" uses. It would be nice to know what I'm doing rather than just blindly setting a value. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Ch

Re: [Emc-users] Code of Conduct

2021-07-18 Thread Feral Engineer
I find it hard to believe that this is still a topic of discussion. Simply put, just don't be a jerk. Done. Move on with your day. Back to vinyl siding for me... Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer

Re: [Emc-users] Code of Conduct

2021-07-18 Thread Feral Engineer
The only control I'm worried about on this email list is CNC control Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer On Sun

Re: [Emc-users] Code of Conduct

2021-07-18 Thread Feral Engineer
Agreed, Gene but my goodness, this topic is being beaten to death. All I want to do is build machines and help others so the same. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts

Re: [Emc-users] Code of Conduct

2021-07-18 Thread Feral Engineer
i just glanced at it again, it's pretty commonplace. Unless all of the admins all agree to enforce the code, it's pretty much going to be handled by an army of one and forgotten about the second people stop feeding into it negatively. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials

Re: [Emc-users] Code of Conduct

2021-07-18 Thread Feral Engineer
I honestly just think you're reading into it way too deeply. Way bigger fish to fry in the world these days. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction

Re: [Emc-users] OT Fanuc!

2021-07-16 Thread Feral Engineer
The 180i is an earlier windows version of a Fanuc, so I'm sure it's got some quirks  Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com

Re: [Emc-users] OT Fanuc!

2021-07-16 Thread Feral Engineer
in their logic, which i miss in lcnc  Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 1:22 PM Andrew wrote

Re: [Emc-users] OT Fanuc!

2021-07-16 Thread Feral Engineer
On the dura, is the issue that it just moves the decimal instead of converting the values? That's just a parameter change. I don't recall the dura using tc controls, i thought those started with td? I may be wrong, it's been a while since i saw one of those in the wild. Phil T. The Feral

Re: [Emc-users] OT Fanuc!

2021-07-16 Thread Feral Engineer
Yeah we only made those for a few years. Not a big seller. Good machine but limited in options and the NL/NLX is just a better seller. You have the straight fanuc or mapps overlay? You'll never guess who I work for  Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds

Re: [Emc-users] OT Fanuc!

2021-07-16 Thread Feral Engineer
You'd have to get around the proprietary crap in the Fanuc servo amps and whatnot, methinks Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com

Re: [Emc-users] OT Fanuc!

2021-07-16 Thread Feral Engineer
I'm in New Jersey but I can help with anything applications related you may have questions with. Is it a mapps 4 or 5 machine? Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts

Re: [Emc-users] Vmc retrofit. Random position toolchanger, and rigid Tapping all go

2021-07-23 Thread Feral Engineer
I'd like to have a look at your files. You know I love me some classicladder  Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC simulator

2022-03-15 Thread Feral Engineer
For the time being, I would just install the official release iso and use that. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com

Re: [Emc-users] IJK vs R

2022-02-25 Thread Feral Engineer
l T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer On Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 10:38 PM cogoman via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourcefor

Re: [Emc-users] Coordinate systems for horizontal spindles

2022-04-11 Thread Feral Engineer
Horizontals typically follow the same right-hand rule as any other machine, it's just that the coordinates are turned normal to the spindle direction (z axis) Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help

Re: [Emc-users] Awesome Linuxcnc gui

2022-04-26 Thread Feral Engineer
I want to know how he got that page of macro variables to come up Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer On Tue, Apr

Re: [Emc-users] Awesome Linuxcnc gui

2022-04-26 Thread Feral Engineer
It's very much a Siemens 840D clone, down to the icons he's using. I'm pretty positive he clipped them directly out of Sinutrain Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts

Re: [Emc-users] Spare 6i25?

2022-06-24 Thread Feral Engineer
How funny, I did a prolight 2000 with some students at my old high school. I'll be putting up a little montage video on my YouTube channel pretty soon Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support

Re: [Emc-users] ProLight 2000 Re: Spare 6i25?

2022-06-24 Thread Feral Engineer
. I have the old dc servos, have installed amt102 encoders, acquired some dc drives and will be putting those into an emco compact 5 that was given to me. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support

Re: [Emc-users] g or m code to home a rotary axis?

2022-06-24 Thread Feral Engineer
On fanuc and controls, g28 trumps absolute position, so the rotary will just turn to index and reset Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction

Re: [Emc-users] Pi4 SSD, MicroSD use

2022-07-01 Thread Feral Engineer
pc with j4125 quad core Celeron, 8gb ram and 128gb ssd to be a pretty good platform - for now, anyway. Time will tell. Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee

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