Alex have taken a photo of Chips and will send it as soon as I get it off the camera. If his feathers look a bit ruffled its because I did'nt have a 10mm ball nose cutter with flutes long enough (at least 31mm) to cut down his feet in fact the only cutter I had which would do this was a 1\4" 4 flute end mill, but it proved the motion was OK and thats what I was looking for. As an aside I have been thinking about making a jogging handwheel I have seen a few drawings and circuits for doing this but all are built around rather pricey encoders some of which are only avaliable from the States. I was wondering if it was possible to use a small stepper to do this instead as I have a number of these, I think they came from 5" floppy disc drives they are various formats i.e. 4 wire, 6 wire, steps range from 100 to 400 per rev. the 400 appear to give about 8-10 mvs the 100 about 15-18 mvs a step. Has anybody ever done this or thought about it, while I .have no difficulty making my own circuit boards and populating them my electronics knowledge is limited. Also of course if this is possible is it difficult to configur this in EMC.
Rod. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Joni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] How to > Great to hear you had such success. > Maybe you can send me a picture of the 3d chips? > > Regards, > Alex > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rod Welland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:48 PM > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] How to > > >> Thanks Alex worked a treat. Everything is working fine now, took me a >> while >> to work out how to set up the motion specialy the Z axis as its 2:1 ratio >> and halfstep on the driver board I also don't like the Z moving as fast >> in >> rapid as the X and Y, about half the speed. What I found was that while >> using the axis speed and feed overide sliders on the TKEMC GUI, which is >> the >> GUI I like best, if the MAXVELOCITY and STEPMAXVELOCITY on the Z axis >> were >> set to high and you mistakenly turned the axis speed slider up to high >> (feed >> overide at 100%) it was possible to freeze the stepper on the Z axis, not >> something you want to happen in the middle of a part. (My Z moves the >> hole >> head not just the quill hence the 2:1 ratio.). So I've set it so even if >> axis speed is turned right up Z will not freeze, I think I could up it a >> bit >> more but for now I'll play safe until I've learnt some more. If anybody >> has >> any further thoughts on this I'd be happy to hear them. I cut Chips the >> penguin in blue foam and he looks OK. My setup is 800Mhz PC, Xylotex 4 >> axis >> driver, 4mm pitch ballscrews all axis, direct drive on X & Y 2:1 on Z, >> 180Ncm steppers X & Y, 220Ncm stepper on Z. All steppers at 2.5Amps, they >> just get warm when left on. >> >> Rod >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Alex Joni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:37 AM >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] How to >> >> >>> Inside the ini file you are using there are the following lines: >>> #HALFILE = xylotex_pinout.hal >>> HALFILE = standard_pinout.hal >>> >>> simlpy remove the comment character '#' from the first line, and add it >>> to >>> the second one. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Alex >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Rod Welland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >>> <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:31 AM >>> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] How to >>> >>> >>>> Yes Sven you are dead right, the mistake I was making was trying to do >>>> it >>>> using Nero SmartStart which would have been alright if I had closed the >>>> window that appears and gone straight to Recorder then Burn Image. >>>> However >>>> I >>>> did persivere and eventually work it out. I have now had Ubuntu+EMC2 >>>> installed on my PC for a couple of days and all is working well. >>>> However >>>> the >>>> configuration procedure for a specific machine seems rather more >>>> complex >>>> than it is for TurboCNC. I am using the Xylotex driver board on a >>>> bench >>>> mill, I found the Xylotex configuration in the samples but can't seem >>>> to >>>> get >>>> it to run it always seems to load with the standard pin outs I did try >>>> removing these files and just leaving the Xylotex and metric files in >>>> the >>>> folder but this did'nt work either. Any help from you guy's would be >>>> very >>>> welcome. >>>> >>>> Thanks Rod. >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Sven Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >>>> <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:52 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] How to >>>> >>>> >>>>> Rod Welland wrote on 20/05/2007 17:28: >>>>> >>>>>>> I think you hit it on the head Ray Nero has not created a boot disc >>>>>>> there is only one file on the CD and not the 9 or so I should be >>>>>>> seeing. So I,m going to download another CD burning prog form the >>>>>>> internet today and have another go. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> You probably created a new project in Nero and added the file you >>>>> downloaded. Instead, you should select "burn image" (or similar) from >>>>> the recorder menu item. In the file dialog that appears, you should >>>>> then >>>>> select the image you downloaded from linuxcnc.org. >>>>> >>>>> regards, >>>>> Sven >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >>>>> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >>>>> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. >>>>> http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Emc-users mailing list >>>>> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >>>> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >>>> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. 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