Re: [Emc-users] Halscope Log Files

2020-10-22 Thread Thomas J Powderly
Hello Comparing 2 scope traces could be handy. I had a few techs working for me in a cnc repair situation. We all used tek scopes and had 'screen savers' that actually saved the source code to recreate screen These 'screenshots' could be reloaded  on a 'channel' and compared to a real

Re: [Emc-users] Halscope Log Files

2020-10-22 Thread Robert Ellenberg
Andy, Try this branch here: https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/rellenberg/halscope It adds native CSV-saving capability to halscope (if you specify a .csv file in the save dialog). It's much easier to parse in something like octave (and also much faster). It won't do much for the

Re: [Emc-users] spindle syncing arbitrary shapes.. Yes please...

2020-10-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
I wonder if any company is making such pressed together camshafts for old engines like 350 Chevy and 302 Ford? Lighter weight = less rotational inertia. Should result in less stress on the timing chain and sprocket. On Thursday, October 22, 2020, 6:45:03 AM MDT, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 174, Issue 64

2020-10-22 Thread Alan Condit
Andy, Thank you very much. Because of the error message I was looking in the wrong place. That fix got it to load successfully, and allowed me to debug the problem and fix it. Thanks again, Alan > From: andy pugh > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020

Re: [Emc-users] Now do I have a bad card?

2020-10-22 Thread Mark Wendt
> > My next attempt seems to have arrived at a usable config although neither > the spindle nor axisA is wired up ATM. But I am getting the desired > signals to make it work from the stepgen 3 terminals on tb2, getting the > complements pairs out on the 4 terminals labeled as stepgen 3. > > I

Re: [Emc-users] Now do I have a bad card?

2020-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 October 2020 11:07:19 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 22 October 2020 09:39:35 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 04:41:19 -0400 > > > From: Gene Heskett > > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > >

Re: [Emc-users] Cutting fluid

2020-10-22 Thread Nicklas SB Karlsson
In some oils there are PAHs polyaromatic hydrocarbons and these have been linked to some forms of cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbon Then reading about Creosot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote I found there is difference in chemical properties between

Re: [Emc-users] Apparent changes in gcode in Linuxcnc 2.8.0

2020-10-22 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 14:52, Alan Condit wrote: > I have a bunch of wizards that I have written under 2.7 and under 2.8 they > won’t work. The biggest change is that you used to be able to write the > subroutine declaration as O< CutBevel > SUB [1] [2] [3] like a formal > declaration of

Re: [Emc-users] Halscope Log Files

2020-10-22 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 16:50, Nicklas SB Karlsson wrote: > > Did not read very carefully, if you need maybe I could spend a few other > try to get the halscope log file into Octave. I would be much more interested in getting a halcope log back in to halscope. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle

Re: [Emc-users] Apparent changes in gcode in Linuxcnc 2.8.0

2020-10-22 Thread Alan Condit
Andy, I was looking more closely at the wizards. They date from around 2014. I have been using them up until about 2 years ago. I went through a bunch of them yesterday. The only change that I had to make to get them to work was get rid of the “formal declarations” and comments on the same

Re: [Emc-users] Halscope Log Files

2020-10-22 Thread Nicklas SB Karlsson
Did not read very carefully, if you need maybe I could spend a few other try to get the halscope log file into Octave. Den 2020-10-21 kl. 20:36, skrev andy pugh: Does anyone have any investment in a tool to read the halscope log file format? I am thinking that it is a bit unhelpful at the

Re: [Emc-users] Now do I have a bad card?

2020-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 October 2020 09:39:35 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 04:41:19 -0400 > > From: Gene Heskett > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users]

Re: [Emc-users] mesaflash problem, Peter plz comment

2020-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 October 2020 07:55:04 andy pugh wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 02:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > No, that steers the pwm which modulates the bottom half of the > > bridge, and not externally separated, both sides on these full H > > bridge cards. > > The step outputs are a

Re: [Emc-users] spindle syncing arbitrary shapes.. Yes please...

2020-10-22 Thread Sam Sokolik
Oh - this certainly isn't a production way of creating shapes (internally and externally).. (although some shapes it might be) sam On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:44 AM Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > I must add, that lately we're considering making the camshafts this way: > >

Re: [Emc-users] Now do I have a bad card?

2020-10-22 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 04:41:19 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Now do I have a bad card? On Wednesday 21 October 2020 23:05:16 Peter C. Wallace

Re: [Emc-users] spindle syncing arbitrary shapes.. Yes please...

2020-10-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
I must add, that lately we're considering making the camshafts this way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkHgf5SSsAQ This would eliminate the roughing process at all. El jue., 22 oct. 2020 a las 9:35, Leonardo Marsaglia () escribió: > Looks like this would be perfect for roughing camshafts

Re: [Emc-users] spindle syncing arbitrary shapes.. Yes please...

2020-10-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
> > Looks like this would be perfect for roughing camshafts prior to heat > treating and grinding. I bet the guy with the camshaft factory who adapted > LCNC to control induction heat treaters would be interested in this. This is what I achieved so far Gregg

Re: [Emc-users] spindle syncing arbitrary shapes.. Yes please...

2020-10-22 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
> > Yep he is in Chile. Argentina actually. It's similar, but out shores face the atlantic instead of the pacific. Also we're closer of being an eleventh world country than they are... El jue., 22 oct. 2020 a las 3:08, andrew beck () escribió: > Yep he is in Chile. > > > > On Thu, Oct 22,

Re: [Emc-users] mesaflash problem, Peter plz comment

2020-10-22 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 02:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > No, that steers the pwm which modulates the bottom half of the bridge, > and not externally separated, both sides on these full H bridge cards. The step outputs are a differential pair, not PWM and /PWM. I am not sure if that is a real

Re: [Emc-users] spindle syncing arbitrary shapes.. Yes please...

2020-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 October 2020 23:32:17 Sam Sokolik wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4sKHBh6rDk > Sam is haveing way too much fun again. 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

Re: [Emc-users] Now do I have a bad card?

2020-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 October 2020 23:05:16 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 21:06:06 -0400 > > From: Gene Heskett > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re:

Re: [Emc-users] spindle syncing arbitrary shapes.. Yes please...

2020-10-22 Thread andrew beck
Yep he is in Chile. On Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 6:47 PM Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Looks like this would be perfect for roughing camshafts prior to heat > treating and grinding. I bet the guy with the camshaft factory who adapted > LCNC to control