Well, we had to make a little circuit board to convert the Fanuc spindle analog pulse generator signals to digital quadrature pulses and I mounted an optical sensor to read a flag on the spindle to make an index pulse.
Anyway, the machine now rigid taps. Very first chips made since the conversion began were testing rigid tapping in 1/4" polycarbonate with a 1/4"-20 tap: https://youtu.be/dvdWepZ5o8Q On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Friday 05 June 2015 12:59:56 Rick Lair wrote: > > I do build from source, > > > > So should I have the VMC folder be in my > > "home/testpc/linuxcnc-dev/configs directory, > > > > Then from the command line be in the > > "testpc@testpc:~/linuxcnc-dev/configs$" directory, > > > > Then do " sudo halcompile --install --install-doc carousel.comp" > > > > Does that sound right? > > You may have to edit your .bashrc's PATH to include /usr/bin > > or, since you'll be using root $PATH, do > > sudo /usr/bin/halcompile --install -- install-doc carousel.comp > > > On 6/5/2015 12:41 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > > On 6/5/15 10:38 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > >> On 5 June 2015 at 17:34, Rick Lair <r...@superiorroll.com> wrote: > > >>> Now I get "sudo: halcompile: command not found", > > >> > > >> Wierd. > > >> sudo apt-get install linuxcnc-dev > > >> Might help, but I didn't think that was necessary, and I would > > >> imagine you already have it. > > > > > > Yes, halcompile is part of the linuxcnc-dev package (or in your > > > run-in-place path, if you build from source). > > 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-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
