[Emc-users] Stupid idea?

2010-03-08 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
Hello...

Few days ago I post wabcam idea onto linuxcnc forum.

http://tinyurl.com/ye3tcgo

As there are no answer I just wonder what's wrong.

Can be that I just post on wrong place...
Can be that idea is so stupid...
Can be that nobody want that...
Can be  

Slavko.

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Re: [Emc-users] Stupid idea?

2010-03-08 Thread Andy Pugh
On 8 March 2010 13:23, Slavko Kocjancic esla...@gmail.com wrote:

 Few days ago I post wabcam idea onto linuxcnc forum.

 http://tinyurl.com/ye3tcgo

 As there are no answer I just wonder what's wrong.

There are a few answers, and it isn't a stupid idea as there are a
number of other people who have done the same thing, some even as
commercial ventures.
I even went as far as to buy a  webcam to make my own, but couldn't
figure out how to make it work with Linux, and other projects took
over.

http://www.miketreth.mistral.co.uk/centrecam.htm

Is an example of a Windows version.

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Re: [Emc-users] Stupid idea?

2010-03-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 14:23 +0100, Slavko Kocjancic wrote:
 Hello...
 
 Few days ago I post wabcam idea onto linuxcnc forum.
 
 http://tinyurl.com/ye3tcgo
 
 As there are no answer I just wonder what's wrong.
 
 Can be that I just post on wrong place...
 Can be that idea is so stupid...
 Can be that nobody want that...
 Can be  
 
 Slavko.

The forum is not nearly as well established as the mail list or IRC. I
have used the forum when a search has pointed to it, but I find it
difficult to keep up with new posts. It would be much better to have an
option to have all new posts sent to a forum e-mail list or at least to
a new posts list on the opening page. I have gotten into the habit of
checking my e-mail, but it is more difficult to go to the extra effort
to seek the webite, login, and search through folders to find new forum
posts. It would be nice to merge the e-mail list and forum so that it
could be used both ways, but I think this would take considerable effort
and would not be especially fun to do.

As far as a feature finding camera, for most of us normal edge finding
works well enough. I haven't even tried probing yet, let alone video
feature finding. I do think it would be a great feature to have, and it
would be great if you would continue pursuing it. I just don't have much
to offer at this time. If I were to help out I would probably read
through the AXIS documentation a couple of times. It seems to me there
are one or two methods of calling external programs from AXIS. I am
often surprised by how much good stuff is in the documentation. For any
interested lurkers out there this may be a good time to get involved.
Many hands make light work. Slavko, maybe you could start a wiki page
presenting the work you have done so far, then a list of things to do.

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[Emc-users] G96 Spindle Speed

2010-03-08 Thread Andy Pugh
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode_main.html#sec:G96,-G97:-Spindle

Says that spindle speed is calculated on the basis of machine X
position and Tool Offset.

This appears to mean machine absolute position? With my machine X(abs)
runs from 0 to -130 but the G54 offsets are set to make that work
properly for machining.
CSS appears to work, with the speed hitting the max as the tool tip
reaches the middle of the work, so have I just got lucky, or is the
documentation not entirely true?

As a secondary question, is G96 affected by G7 (Diameter) mode? I am
wondering if I am running at half (or twice) the requested speed.
I guess it is an easy enough question to answer with a calculator.

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Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Connector

2010-03-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 21:49 -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
... snip
 It seems to work. I jury rigged a breadboard and massaged my ADC comp
 into a absolute encoder comp. I get an output from 0 to 1023 as I rotate
 the shaft magnet. Now, I need to machine a housing with a shaft, bearing
 and terminal strip and give it another test. I'll post the Halscope and
 comp file tomorrow.
 
 There isn't much left of the original encoder, so I'm thinking it would
 have been better to just get the sensor chip, if it's available.

In case anyone is interested, here is a picture of the setup:
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/EMC2/AEAT-6010/dcp_6888.jpg 
( http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/EMC2/AEAT-6010/ )

Here is the HALscope:
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/EMC2/AEAT-6010/AEAT6010_HALscope-1a.png
 

which isn't all that interesting because there isn't much to see. The
top trace (blue) is the chip select (active low). The second trace down
is the data-out clock which clocks the data bits out on the rise and the
comp records on the fall. The green trace shows the value while I turned
the knob up. At 1023, the next step drops to 0 or vice-versa.

It looks like the sensor is not available separately. There are the
austriamicrosystems rotary chips, which are very attractive:
http://austriamicrosystems.com/eng/Products/Magnetic-Encoders/Rotary-Encoders 

but their onesies-twosies pricing is still too high. Too bad, nice
product.

Now, I need to apply the encoder to feed and spindle override and jog. I
suppose I will need to mechanically keep the knob from wrapping, or
maybe do it in logic? Since the encoder is absolute, when it gets
enabled, it will instantly output whatever value the knob is set for. I
wonder this might become a problem? Should there be a way to
automatically move the knob to a safe setting?

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Re: [Emc-users] Stupid idea?

2010-03-08 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
2010/3/8 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com


 As far as a feature finding camera, for most of us normal edge finding
 works well enough. I haven't even tried probing yet, let alone video
 feature finding. I do think it would be a great feature to have, and it
 would be great if you would continue pursuing it. I just don't have much
 to offer at this time. If I were to help out I would probably read
 through the AXIS documentation a couple of times. It seems to me there
 are one or two methods of calling external programs from AXIS. I am
 often surprised by how much good stuff is in the documentation. For any
 interested lurkers out there this may be a good time to get involved.
 Many hands make light work. Slavko, maybe you could start a wiki page
 presenting the work you have done so far, then a list of things to do.


As I tried many time's that camera seems to be simplest  acurate method to
centering preetched PCB. For other thimgs the probe can be better. I read
the AXIS documentation and not yet find solutions for my problem.
1. To execute some Gcode fragment by clicking button
2. To execute some script by clicking button (pyvcp)

I do know that pyvcp button can togle some hal signal..
I do know that M1xx comannd execute script.
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Re: [Emc-users] G96 Spindle Speed

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 06:44:06PM +, Andy Pugh wrote:

 http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode_main.html#sec:G96,-G97:-Spindle
 
 Says that spindle speed is calculated on the basis of machine X
 position and Tool Offset.

That used to be true.

 This appears to mean machine absolute position? With my machine X(abs)
 runs from 0 to -130 but the G54 offsets are set to make that work
 properly for machining.
 CSS appears to work, with the speed hitting the max as the tool tip
 reaches the middle of the work, so have I just got lucky, or is the
 documentation not entirely true?

Yes now it works properly considering G43, G5x and G92 offsets.  So no
matter how you set the X part zero, you get the right CSS.

 As a secondary question, is G96 affected by G7 (Diameter) mode? I am
 wondering if I am running at half (or twice) the requested speed.
 I guess it is an easy enough question to answer with a calculator.

Not affected.  Surface speed is surface speed.

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Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Connector

2010-03-08 Thread Andy Pugh
On 8 March 2010 20:16, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote:

 It looks like the sensor is not available separately. There are the
 austriamicrosystems rotary chips, which are very attractive:
 http://austriamicrosystems.com/eng/Products/Magnetic-Encoders/Rotary-Encoders

 but their onesies-twosies pricing is still too high. Too bad, nice
 product.

What does this link look like from the US?

http://export.farnell.com/austriamicrosystems/as5045-assu/encoder-magnetic-rotary-10bit-16ssop/dp/1630801

Or alternatively:
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProductR=6691501

I have an account with the latter, and postage for such tiny things
can't be expensive

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Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Connector

2010-03-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 21:10 +, Andy Pugh wrote:
 On 8 March 2010 20:16, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote:
 
  It looks like the sensor is not available separately. There are the
  austriamicrosystems rotary chips, which are very attractive:
  http://austriamicrosystems.com/eng/Products/Magnetic-Encoders/Rotary-Encoders
 
  but their onesies-twosies pricing is still too high. Too bad, nice
  product.
 
 What does this link look like from the US?
 
 http://export.farnell.com/austriamicrosystems/as5045-assu/encoder-magnetic-rotary-10bit-16ssop/dp/1630801
 
 Or alternatively:
 http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProductR=6691501
 
 I have an account with the latter, and postage for such tiny things
 can't be expensive

The Farnell page shows a table of links to their location specific home
pages, none in the U.S.

RS shows 1 @ L8.36 which which puts it in line with the Avago part.
RS has this page which has a U.S. link to Allied, but there are no
austriamicrosystem parts.

I did find this:
http://www.cdiweb.com/FeaturedProducts.aspx?Manf=295Type=93NavType=1 

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Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Connector

2010-03-08 Thread Kasey Matejcek
You can get samples to play with 
I currently are using these in a weather van seem to be pretty accrate and
stable
www.newark.com cares them to but still $8.50

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From: Kirk Wallace [mailto:kwall...@wallacecompany.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 4:19 PM
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Connector

On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 21:10 +, Andy Pugh wrote:
 On 8 March 2010 20:16, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote:
 
  It looks like the sensor is not available separately. There are the
  austriamicrosystems rotary chips, which are very attractive:
 
http://austriamicrosystems.com/eng/Products/Magnetic-Encoders/Rotary-Encoder
s
 
  but their onesies-twosies pricing is still too high. Too bad, nice
  product.
 
 What does this link look like from the US?
 

http://export.farnell.com/austriamicrosystems/as5045-assu/encoder-magnetic-r
otary-10bit-16ssop/dp/1630801
 
 Or alternatively:

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct
R=6691501
 
 I have an account with the latter, and postage for such tiny things
 can't be expensive

The Farnell page shows a table of links to their location specific home
pages, none in the U.S.

RS shows 1 @ L8.36 which which puts it in line with the Avago part.
RS has this page which has a U.S. link to Allied, but there are no
austriamicrosystem parts.

I did find this:
http://www.cdiweb.com/FeaturedProducts.aspx?Manf=295Type=93NavType=1 

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Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Connector

2010-03-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 18:07 -0600, Kasey Matejcek wrote:
 You can get samples to play with 
 I currently are using these in a weather van seem to be pretty accrate and
 stable
 www.newark.com cares them to but still $8.50

Thanks Kasey, Newark seems to have it.

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[Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Feature Request

2010-03-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
Thanks to some help from the IRC (tom3p), I got the encoder working with
AXIS's spindle override. One problem I am still having is that when AXIS
starts, the spindle override always starts at 100% even though the knob
is usually at a different setting. When I move the knob, the override
moves proportionally with the knob until I hit the 0 to 1024 encoder
boundary. After this the knob and the slider agree. Is there a way to
have AXIS start with the knob setting?
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Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Feature Request

2010-03-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 18:48 -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
 Thanks to some help from the IRC (tom3p), I got the encoder working with
 AXIS's spindle override. One problem I am still having is that when AXIS
 starts, the spindle override always starts at 100% even though the knob
 is usually at a different setting. When I move the knob, the override
 moves proportionally with the knob until I hit the 0 to 1024 encoder
 boundary. After this the knob and the slider agree. Is there a way to
 have AXIS start with the knob setting?

I forgot to link my config files:
http://wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/EMC2/AEAT-6010/abs_enc/

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Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Feature Request

2010-03-08 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Kirk Wallace wrote:
 Thanks to some help from the IRC (tom3p), I got the encoder working with
 AXIS's spindle override. One problem I am still having is that when AXIS
 starts, the spindle override always starts at 100% even though the knob
 is usually at a different setting. When I move the knob, the override
 moves proportionally with the knob until I hit the 0 to 1024 encoder
 boundary. After this the knob and the slider agree. Is there a way to
 have AXIS start with the knob setting?

Two things:
1) This method of control is against the NIST principle regarding 
multiple locus of control.  What that means is that since there are 
multiple places from which you can control the feed override (on the 
AXIS screen and the halui knob at minimum), neither place can be an 
absolute setpoint.  Consider this - how will you cause the knob to move 
if the keys or slider in AXIS are manipulated?  If the two (or more) 
user interfaces have different absolute setpoints, how should EMC choose 
which one to honor?  How does the operator know which one is active?

2) At the moment, I don't think there's any way of pre-setting the 
value.  The spindle override value is not an input to halui (since that 
would violate the NIST principle).

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Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Feature Request

2010-03-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:15 -0500, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
 Kirk Wallace wrote:
  Thanks to some help from the IRC (tom3p), I got the encoder working with
  AXIS's spindle override. One problem I am still having is that when AXIS
  starts, the spindle override always starts at 100% even though the knob
  is usually at a different setting. When I move the knob, the override
  moves proportionally with the knob until I hit the 0 to 1024 encoder
  boundary. After this the knob and the slider agree. Is there a way to
  have AXIS start with the knob setting?
 
 Two things:
 1) This method of control is against the NIST principle regarding 
 multiple locus of control.  What that means is that since there are 
 multiple places from which you can control the feed override (on the 
 AXIS screen and the halui knob at minimum), neither place can be an 
 absolute setpoint.  Consider this - how will you cause the knob to move 
 if the keys or slider in AXIS are manipulated?  If the two (or more) 
 user interfaces have different absolute setpoints, how should EMC choose 
 which one to honor?  How does the operator know which one is active?
 
 2) At the moment, I don't think there's any way of pre-setting the 
 value.  The spindle override value is not an input to halui (since that 
 would violate the NIST principle).
 
 - Steve

What about,
halui.spindle-override.counts (s32, in) - counts from an encoder for
example to change SO
http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//gui_halui.html#r1_2_15 

(I suspect it was designed for an encoder that doesn't wrap)

Since I have an override knob I would not need the slider in AXIS, or I
could have a switch to enable one or the other, with an indicator for
which one is active.

How would one remove the override setting feature from AXIS?

Maybe an incremental encoder would be better?
halui.spindle-override.decrease (bit, in)- pin for decreasing the SO
(-=scale)
halui.spindle-override.increase (bit, in) - pin for increasing the SO
(+=scale)

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Re: [Emc-users] USB connection

2010-03-08 Thread Jeff Epler
If you mean position control, then the answer is no.  With emc, usb or
serial are not suitable for realtime motion control.  For some more
information on why this is,
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Emc2HardwareDesign

If you mean auxiliary I/O then the answer is yes.  A userspace HAL
component can talk to devices where real-time I/O isn't required.
Depending on the system, this could be used for things like spindle
control, rotating the tool carousel, and possibly other tasks.  There
are some examples of this on our wiki.  

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?ContributedComponents#Hardware_Drivers

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Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Feature Request

2010-03-08 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Kirk Wallace wrote:
 [snip]
 What about,
 halui.spindle-override.counts (s32, in) - counts from an encoder for
 example to change SO
 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//gui_halui.html#r1_2_15

I believe that's only used by looking at the difference between the old 
count value and the new to get a delta value.  That delta is then used 
to change the setpoint.
 (I suspect it was designed for an encoder that doesn't wrap)

Yes, it's meant for a standard quadrature encoder.
 Since I have an override knob I would not need the slider in AXIS, or I
 could have a switch to enable one or the other, with an indicator for
 which one is active.

If it were possible, a switch would have the bad side effect of suddenly 
snapping the setting from one value to another as the control point is 
changed.  This is a specific case that the NIST folks should be avoided 
also :)  It's not possible though, there's no way to prevent any user 
interface from sending commands to the EMC task controller.
 How would one remove the override setting feature from AXIS?

You could remove the code that creates the slider, and any code that 
assigns keyboard shortcuts to move the slider (I don't know that there 
are keyboard shortcuts for this)
 Maybe an incremental encoder would be better?

Yes.  Connect it to halui.spindle-override.counts.  If you have an 
absolute encoder that also outputs gray code, just connect the two 
lowest bits to the incremental encoder inputs.

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Re: [Emc-users] USB connection

2010-03-08 Thread Dave
No USB or for that matter Serial connected controllers are supported.  
EMC2 is designed to control the motion by utilizing the PC with the help 
of I/O boards or via step and direction (and some other variants) via 
the LPT port.

But the source code is available so you can alter it anyway you want.

Dave

On 3/8/2010 3:40 PM, Paul Midgley wrote:
 Hello

 Is it possible to use EMC via either a serial or usb link using an
 Arduino as an interface board.

 Any help or information would be appreciated.

 Regards

 Paul

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