Kirk: That statement was already in my .hal file. But, I did comment out the 'motion.motion-inpos' line in the postgui.hal file and that did allow EMC to run. Thanks for the suggestion and I'll keep plugging away.
Dean -----Original Message----- From: Kirk Wallace [mailto:kwall...@wallacecompany.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:55 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Need Help With Classicladder On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 20:04 -0400, Dean wrote: > Hi Guys: > > Have any of you implemented the one button touch-off that's listed in the > ladder examples in the Wiki? I can't seem to make it work. Here's my > progression to this point: > > > > I've updated to 2.3Beta and ran the stepper wizard at which time I added the > ladder app for E-stop using both the hardware and EMC soft e-stops. When I > ran EMC (AXIS) everything worked great. Getting a little cocky at this > stage, I decided to learn something about classic ladder and tried to add > ladder programming to the existing e-stop ladder to implement the one button > touch-off shown in the example. Well, since my lame attempt at adding the > programming I found in the CNCzone thread on this topic, I can't get EMC2 to > load. I even started from scratch and used just the files listed in that > thread without any contamination by the e-stop ladder program. That doesn't > work either. The closest I can get to start-up is an EMC debug error > stating: custom_postgui.hal:13: pin 'motion.motion-inpos' does not exist. > There is a line in the custom_postgui.hal file: "net in_pos > motion.motion-inpos => classicladder.o.in-02" but that is the only reference > to that signal/pin that I can find anywhere including the .hal and .ini > files. I'm a rank beginner here and don't know where to go next. I can't > seem to find anything to help me in the Hal docs either. > Any ideas? > Thanks. > Dean I think the error is indicating that the pin module.motion-inpos can not be found. I looked at the module called motion: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/motion.9.html and noticed that there is an output pin called motion.motion-inpos, so if the motion module is loaded, it should show up. The motion page indicates that the module is loaded with: loadrt motmod [base_period_nsec=period] [servo_period_nsec=period] [traj_period_nsec=period] [key=SHMEM_KEY] [num_joints=[0-9]] This should be in one of your .hal files. One of my .hal files has this entered: # motion controller, get name and thread periods from ini file loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT base_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]BASE_PERIOD servo_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]SERVO_PERIOD traj_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]TRAJ_PERIOD key=[EMCMOT]SHMEM_KEY This should already be in your file, so check for spelling and misplaced spaces, etc. You can also comment out the line calling for motion.motion-inpos by adding a # in front of the line. This will make EMC2 think that line is a comment, and will ignore it. This may get rid of the error and allow EMC2 to load, or just give you a different error. ---------- Kirk http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
