Russell - is there a "z" axis on your machine? John.
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoth andy pugh..... > >On 12 October 2016 at 08:49, Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If I click 'OK' linuxcnc loads but the initial X & Y show as 4.23e+289 > >> and 2.95e+240 and axis.ngc is not showing in the display. > > > >Is this one of them "Universal" milling machines, for milling entire > universes? > > The heating's come on today so it's probably expanded a bit but not that > much :-) > > > >It might be as simple as a position.txt file with bad numbers in it? > > Hmmmmm..... > > A) that doesn't explain the weird error message about axis.ngc. > B) the same position.txt works with 2.7.4 > C) deleting position.txt doesn't fix either problem. > > FWIW, position.txt contains: > > 211.51237592697140144 > -82.01800169944763752 > 99.75883250664918478 > 0.00000000000000000 > 0.00000000000000000 > 0.00000000000000000 > 0.00000000000000000 > 0.00000000000000000 > 0.00000000000000000 > > I've just tried sim axis_mm.ini with 2.7.7 and it also generates the > spurious popup about "Bad character 'z' used" in axis.ngc :-( > > Created a new user (to avoid config issues), logged in, ran 2.7.7 and > picked sim.axis/axis_mm...... same popup error message about "Bad > character 'z'" near line 12 in /usr/share/axis/images/axis.ngc. > > If I try to open "/usr/share/axis/images/axis.ngc" from the File menu I > again get the error message. > > If I try to open a previously used simple .ngc file, linuxcnc complains > that the tool (tool 1) isn't found in the tool table.... even though > tool 1 *is* plainly there if I edit the tooltable. > > If I try to 'cut' axis.ngc, it wants me to home; I do that but X & Y go > from 0 to X -1.26e+58 and Y 3.11e+231. Click run again and it pauses. > When I click pause to continue, I get the error "can't do that > (EMC_TRAJ_SET_TELEOP_ENABLE) in auto mode with the interpreter idle". > > Uninstalled 2.7.7 (apt-get remove --purge linuxcnc), reinstalled 2.7.4 > (apt-get install linuxcnc=1:2.7.4) and, still as my new test user, fired > up linuxcnc with sim/axis_mm.ini. > > No complaints about bad characters, no silly numbers on homing and the > sim happily 'cut' LinuxCNC as expected. > > Just for fun, I tried 2.7.5 and it's borked in the same way as 2.7.7. > > Tried building a git pull of linuxcnc-dev but configure fails saying > python is too old (2.7 needed; lucid has 2.6.5). > > Somethings very broken with 2.7.5+ on lucid :-( > > So... am I stuck on 2.7.4 ? > > -- > Regards, > Russell > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Russell Brown | MAIL: [email protected] PHONE: 01780 471800 | > | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com | > | Peterborough, England | WWW Play: http://www.ruffle.me.uk | > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
