Steve - I can understand your frustration.
However, maybe a differences in our characters - and this is not a complaint or put-down. I ponder and dig and experiment and learn. My wife's always saying "quit pondering and just do it" - and many times she's right. I know that I'm in the vast minority; 99% of the "cruft" out on the Internet refers to Mach3; EMC (LinuxCNC) barely registers. Maybe the following will help. New G0704 mill in my house. Q: What to do about spindle control. Google Answer: seems like almost all people just manually turn spindle on. Those using Mach3 and a CNC4PC board (the experimenters) have limited success in understanding the problems/solutions/configurations. My Answer: get the circuit diagrams. Get the KBIC board layout - the G0704 contains a clone. Figure it out. Deciding to simplify spindle sensor readout; will feed it back to LinuxCNC for direct feedback. Simplify what is in the mill head. It took about 3 hours of digging to come up with my way forward. Yes, there'll be some issues to resolve, but I know that (with the help here) that I can resolve them. I do know that the vast majority out there would not know how to get to a working/solid solution, but then again, they probably have a different set of assets, and are much stronger in other areas than I am. I am *totally* amazed at how well LinuxCNC works; down the hall and around the corner is about a football field sized set of rooms with lots of cutting-edge CNC equipment, and I'm no stranger there. My machines may not be quite as accurate, but are as reliable in terms of operation, and are either easier or not so easy to use, depending on the controller attached to the professional machines. So, yes, I can understand your frustration, but my personality takes me along a path of learning to find a solution, and I can totally understand that that is not everyones' cup of tea. JohnS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
