On 6 Feb 2008 at 9:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petri
I'm building a cnc plasma machine at the moment... I get errors too when trying to run a file... If I come up with a solution I'll holler back at you... If you want to discuss plasma ideas feel free to e mail me. John > Hi > > I'm new with EMC2. I'm interested about EMC2 and I'm trying to learn > how it works, but now I have a problem where I will need a little > help. > > Does plasma-thc-sim work for you? When I try to run it I always get > "joint 0 following error". I also get some realtime errors because I > have not yet found proper configuration for my machine (even I have > tried quite hard). I'm not sure but I think that this following error > is not side effect of those realtime errors. > > Of course it is also possible that I operate the system in a wrong > way. What I do is: - start EMC2 with plasma-thc-sim - release ESTOP - > turn machine ON - push Home All - push Begin Execution > > After a few seconds I get that following error. > > > I have tried to read all information what I have found about THC, but > still I don't completely understand the operation. Can somebody give > me a little advice. > > 1) what is meaning of "Travel Height" > > 2) how Z axis should be controlled in the G-code file? Does THC logic > control Z axis totally so that there is no need for Z moves in G-code, > only M3/M5 command are needed or how does it work. In the example file > there are many Z moves and no M3/M5 commands. Is arc turned somehow > off between cutting letters or not. So, as you see, I'm a little bit > confused. > > Petri > > ps. with configuration sim/axis-mm (for example) everything seems to > work fine, but at this time I'm especially interested about that > plasma control system pps. I'm using version 2.2.3 installed from live > CD ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
