On Tuesday 15 September 2015 02:55:35 Nick wrote: > Major benefit of including Features into the LinuxCNC - is making it > much easier to install. > So if we already have needed changes in the GladeVCP files will > simplify the installation procedure a lot. All we'll have to do is put > all the files into the configuration directory and add features into > ini file. (or if we are satisfied with the version that have came > with the release just add Features into ini file). By the way, we can > also add example configuration into the sim version. > > Most of people had problems with installation.
I sure did Nick, I think a clash with a gladecp spindle tach on the 3rd tab of the preview window is the culprit, but thats handy too. pncconf puts it there, but IMO that is not the right place for it, it really belongs in the left panel immediately above or below the manual spindle dir, stop and speed stepping buttons. Or in the right panel, top item where its visible full time. The standalone preview looked quite useful, so I followed the install instructions from the web site, and wound up having to undo all the edited stuffs in /usr/share before LinuxCNC version 2.8.0-pre would run again. I have not followed the instructions in the README.md file, are they different? > If we can provide > Features together with LinuxCNC it will solve this problem! I agree, it looks to be quite handy when run as standalone. But on a mill, it come up defaulted to lathe mode, so I did as shown in the README.md, then told it to save as default, but it did not, it reverted to lathe mode on the next start without the --catalog="argument". I also intend to install the camview and the align packages, but 2 things of note: 1. The camera I originally bought to do this has a physically wide format, a logitech C920, which is a very high resolution (1920x1280 IIRC) camera. The physical width is because it also has a pair of electret condensor mics on each side of the camera that I haven't attempted to saw off yet... Unfortunately, camview does not have a rotation at 90 degree intervals feature, so I bought a $22 "colonoscopy" camera on ebay, a much lower resolution camera. But since it was round I could set its rotation in the mount. It worked quite well except for about a 5 second lag thru all the image processing, which made it very slow to use as you had to move the table a thou, and wait till the image was updated when looking for the mark. But a wandering holdown bolt knocked the mount off the side of the quill housing plus the camera came unglued in its tubular housing. The jig that carried that bolt has now been moved to a newer GO704 mill, where I'd like to use this C920 camera if I can build an adjustable mount for it. But without the 90 degree rotation it will be confusing to use at best. It comes across that this post is 100% whine I guess and for tht I appologize as you have some nice and useful stuff if the installation details can be worked out. I thank you very much for doing what you have already done with camview and align. > ---------- > > As of the naming. "Features" came from "Feature" - a small simple > machining (i.e. slot, hole, or ID, array), and Features - is a > combination of such machinings that should give us a great potential > :).... > > Before any changes of the mane I have o consult with FernV (from the > forum) - because he have made significant work to make Features > better. > > To my mind Native CAM sounds better than Live CAM (and IMHO Live CAM > should be overspread into the google as Live Camera). > > In "my Google" LinuxCNC Features gives at least 7 first links that > leads to Features even with hidden personal results. I'm not saying > that it is good, but this means that LinuxCNC Features can be easily > found. > > These two videos have "English" comments: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giJUiZVTXas > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkOJhT69WEc > > -- > Best regards, > Nick Drobchenko Thanks Nick. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
