Re: [Machinekit] CNC newbie - Machinekit from scratch

2018-02-19 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 2/18/2018 8:33 PM, Richard Thornton wrote: > Actually I found a post from Charles Steinkuehler saying that it isn't a > 74CBTLV3861 it's a SN74CBTD3861DW which seems to add level shifting, I > think the G540 is tolerant of 3.3 or 5v? The chips serve to limit the voltage seen by the FPGA on

Re: [Machinekit] 5-axis simultaneous, G-codes?

2018-02-19 Thread Nate White
Fusion 360 from autodesk is $2500 for a commercial licence for one year, and it can do 5-axis swarf and contour following. They will also practically give it to you for personal use. Otherwise, RhinoCAM is pretty good at $10k, then things travel into the stratosphere at $20k+ (check out

Re: [Machinekit] Replicape overlay not setting pru GPIO outputs

2018-02-19 Thread Karl Jacobs
hmm... no luck yet. Of course I could live with a script doing the echo "$GPIONR" > /sys/class/gpio/export etc. for all pru output pins, but I'd rather like to know what is going on. The thing is that on a 4.9.81-bone-rt-r9 kernel on jessie the exact same thing happens, pru does not toggle the

Re: [Machinekit] CNC newbie - Machinekit from scratch

2018-02-19 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 2/18/2018 6:11 PM, Richard Thornton wrote: > > Should I use the Terasic, also I see the DE0-Nano_DB25, do I need that with > the G540, if I do, is it possible to have the board made up with the > components installed (I was thinking of using jumper wires from the Terasic > directly to a

[Machinekit] Re: Replicape overlay not setting pru GPIO outputs

2018-02-19 Thread Karl Jacobs
hmm... no luck yet. Of course I could live with a script doing the echo "$GPIONR" > /sys/class/gpio/export etc. for all pru output pins, but I'd rather like to know what is going on. The thing is that on a 4.9.81-bone-rt-r9 kernel on jessie the exact same thing happens, pru does not toggle the