[Emc-users] OT Transatlantic Terminology Re: Does EMC support Multi-Core?
snip * Is this just an American colloquialism? I suppose in other parts of the English-speaking world one would say dustbin diving? Skip diving is the usual terminology in UK as a dustbin is more like a trash can rather than a dumpster. John Prentice -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] retrofitting a maho
Could you email me the full wiring? that would come in handy for my wiring. Do you know of any good software to draw wiring diagrams? 2010/9/30 dambacher-retrofit.de i...@dambacher-retrofit.de: Am 30.09.2010 17:42, schrieb Peter Teurlings: so i can also use this as an emergency stop? Yes, on my machine the emergency stop cirquit holds a relais closed and rf is directly switched by this relais. 2010/9/29 dambacher-retrofit.dei...@dambacher-retrofit.de: Am 29.09.2010 17:14, schrieb Peter Teurlings: Thanks a lot, I see that you connected all the RF an JF together. is this so everything get's enabled? I just put a single pulse on it at startup so everything gets enabled? I have the full wiring of this. No you need a steady 24V signal to enable. The controller will stop immediately if the signal is 0V on RF or on the JF+/- direction you are moving. /ulf -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- --- Dr.-Ing. Ulf Dambacher Ingenieurbüro für Maschinenbau Ihr Experte für * Retrofit * Funktionserweiterung * Fehlerbeseitigung * Wartung bei Werkzeugmaschinen in Gebrauch Riedweidenstr. 9 79331 Köndringen Tel.+Fax: 07641 9379858 Mobil: 0170 9560075 www.dambacher-retrofit.de i...@dambacher-retrofit.de --- -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Teurlings peerkedemul...@gmail.com -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT Transatlantic Terminology Re: Does EMC support Multi-Core?
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:10 AM, John Prentice j...@castlewd.freeserve.co.uk wrote: snip * Is this just an American colloquialism? I suppose in other parts of the English-speaking world one would say dustbin diving? Skip diving is the usual terminology in UK as a dustbin is more like a trash can rather than a dumpster. John Prentice Hi John; I am curious about the proper translation for dumpster diving. Prior to the 1950s the English seemed annoyed with the Americans ability to turn nouns to verbs and verbs to nouns. For example, we go shopping instead of going to the shop. That said, the only translation that comes to my mind is dumpstering, which I am doubting. Thanks in advance Don -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT Transatlantic Terminology Re: Does EMC support Multi-Core?
Plain old curb shopping here... -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] retrofitting a maho
Am 02.10.2010 13:24, schrieb Peter Teurlings: Could you email me the full wiring? that would come in handy for my wiring. Do you know of any good software to draw wiring diagrams? Hi Peter Can you give me a Hint on what you need in detail? The full wiring plan of the mh700 is 40pages, the full wiring of the 2trm3 is DIN-A0, a puzzle of 16 pages. And the pinouts I sent you an excerpt of this. And that's the original wirings, not my retrofit. I have not yet done a clean rewrite of my hand-written wiring plan. But as a staring point: I removed the original philips breakout board and wired all outputs to my motenc. I used some finder relais to copy the original wiring of the gearbox motors. The gearbox logic consists of a glue module with a table showing gearbox settings for given spindle speeds and a classicladder logic for actually switching the gears. Software: I use eagle (http://www.cadsoft.de/). Cheap and works for platines, wiring diagrams and other things. bye Ulf -- --- Dr.-Ing. Ulf Dambacher Ingenieurbüro für Maschinenbau Ihr Experte für * Retrofit * Funktionserweiterung * Fehlerbeseitigung * Wartung bei Werkzeugmaschinen in Gebrauch Riedweidenstr. 9 79331 Köndringen Tel.+Fax: 07641 9379858 Mobil: 0170 9560075 www.dambacher-retrofit.de i...@dambacher-retrofit.de --- -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Possible Bug with Pluto-Step
Hello All, I have posted details on the EMC Forum with regards to issues when using the pluto-step with at least three axis enabled. When Y is commanded feedback is seen on the Z axis which is then followed by a 'joint 2 following error' in the AXIS GUI. The pluto_inch.ini and hal files are standard and the EMC Version is 2.5.0-pre. I have also posted a HAL Scope screenshot on the forum that clearly shows the interference caused to the Z axis (Axis.2) when Y is commanded (Axis.1). Any help would be much appreciated. http://www.linuxcnc.org/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,20/func,view/catid,38/id,4483/lang,english/ Kind Regards, SRG (Paragon) -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] 7i48 support
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:28:47PM +0100, Andy Pugh wrote: On 29 September 2010 17:16, Caner cnr...@gmail.com wrote: Does HostMot2 support 7i48 daughter board? http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=emc2.git;a=commit;h=da0d5aa5563de8dc7f8f3a87044bd62e1ade5326 Suggests so (though I am not clear if it is in the main branch, or just the development branch) You are right - that is the commit that added 7i48 support. I have a 7i48 in my VMC and it works great. This is only in git master version, not in the stable 2.4 release branch. Chris -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] handwheel tapping
Stuart, See: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60859/1/paulgrif_1.pdf Figure 2.1 Ken On 10/01/2010 09:32 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Hi Ken, That is a good idea!!! Isn't it possible to use a stepper motor as a pulse generator? If so, wouldn't it be possible to variably bias that same stepper to achieve the haptic feedback? thanks for the idea Stuart On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Kenneth Lermankenneth.ler...@se-ltd.comwrote: Hi Stuart, If you are going to do some computer assisted hand tapping, you might want to add some haptic feedback. If you measure the spindle current and use that as a measure of load, you could drive a small servo connected to the mpg and use it as a brake. If you make the braking force proportional to the spindle load, that might let you feel when the tap gets dull or jams on chips. Regards, Ken On 09/30/2010 09:41 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, I am working on a project on the Enshu. I am not sure how valuable it will be but I sure want to try it. I want to tap threads using the MPG. The spindle drive is a full servo. The spindle motor has a resolver for feedback to the spindle drive. The EMC2 DAC signal to the spindle drive is +-10V. I have found a quadrature signal out of the spindle drive. This spindle drive uses the resolver feedback to generate this quadrature signal (A and B). The spindle has a prox and amplifier that feeds a signal into a daughterboard on the spindle drive for spindle orientation during tool change. The daughter board has a pin that outputs a pulse once per revolution corresponding to the radial position of the spindle. I intend to use the A and B as encoder feedback into EMC and the orientation pulse as an index pulse into EMC. This will allow full servo control of the spindle as a C axis. I would like ideas on the best way to implement this. I would like to have the spindle set up as a C axis but without a C axis display on the screen (unless I am using the C axis as an actual C axis but that is another project). I don't think I NEED any display for the spindle for this project. I think I would like to be able to command a G code to engage the spindle and an F code for feedrate to move the C and Z in a coordinated fashion. Maybe I am thinking backwards. Maybe driving the Z axis with the MPG and the C (spindle) coordinated with the Z is the best way. Since I am thinking 'manual' then maybe a button is better than a G code. If I had a button how would I tell the machine the pitch of the thread? Maybe a screen display like the FO/SO/MV displays. This would adjust in proper increments per the chosen units and allow the MPG to set the pitch prior to engaging the coordination button. thoughts - comments - ideas thanks Stuart -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] mouse arrow
tom sheehy wrote: Emc2 loaded fine and I set up my machine but when I got to the screen to start running the machine around there was a blob instead of a mouse arrow and it wouldn't select anything. What am I doing wrong Are you using the 10.04 version? I have heard of similar problems, related to compatibility between the video driver and the particular video hardware on your system. You might try changing the video driver to vesa or plain vga. (I don't know 10.04, so I can't be much more specific.) Jon -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] D519MO Boot Problems.
Don Stanley wrote: It looks as though OLD FAITHFUL DRIVE is sick or been playing in the dirt too long; and has cold allergies. The shop temperature dropped to ~66 F overnight. It is fairly easy to open up a CD drive and clean the lens with alcohol and a Q-tip, and then after the alcohol residue dries, wipe with a dry Q-tip. This fixes about half of the ones that don't read reliably anymore. If that doesn't fix it, try another drive. The lasers get weak, the optics get dirt where you can't get in and clean them. Jon -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] OT Transatlantic Terminology Re: Does EMC support Multi-Core?
* Is this just an American colloquialism? I suppose in other parts of the English-speaking world one would say dustbin diving? Most certainly. An outfit named Dempster Bros. came out with the Dempster Dumpster, a system of automated truck and containers that could be loaded at an industrial facility and picked up and dumped into the truck. Just look up Dempster Dumpster or Dempster Dumpmaster on Wikipedia for the full story. Descendants of these things are now in use in the hundred thousands in the US, practically all US industrial garbage from stores, restaurants, shops and factories is handled by something of this nature. So, in the US, even a 3 year-old probably knows exactly what a dumpster looks like and what it is for. Jon -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] D519MO Boot Problems.
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: It is fairly easy to open up a CD drive and clean the lens with alcohol and a Q-tip, and then after the alcohol residue dries, wipe with a dry Q-tip. I recommed another technique I used when I was younger and messed with lasers in the lab. Use optical lens paper (used to be available in camera stores, in little booklets) Drop a spot of cleanest alcohol (isopropyl is good, but be careful that it's pure and the kind with added glycerin; grain alcohol is fine too) in the middle of the paper. Lay the wet part flat on the lens and slide it off sideways. The wet part will clean the lens and then the dry part will dry it. Qtips, tissue paper, etc. have mineral particles in them as whiteners, etc, that could scratch the antireflective coating on the lens, so you want soft paper. -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Supermax and Fadal Emulators
Hi. I'm currently a student and learning the trade. The school has Supermax and Mazak lathes as well as Supermax, Mazak and Fadal Milling Centers. Using EMC2, I was able to test some of my milling programs using the SIM-Mini emulator. However, I'm having difficulties getting the simulator to work with drilling cycles and sub-routines/sub-programs. I think SIM-Mini is not well suited for that purpose. Or is it? How can I use EMC2 to test programs for the Supermax and Fadal equipments mentioned above including, obviously, drilling and other cycles and sub-programs? Thanks for help. Paul -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] iocontrol user-enable-out
Hi list, How is iocontrol user-enable-out controlled? I remember using a tool that created a graphic pictore of HAL nets. I have lost it and cannot find it again. Any pointers please? cheers, Lars A -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] D510MO boot problems.
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Kent A. Reed knbr...@erols.com wrote: On 10/1/2010 4:26 PM, Don Stanley wrote: Hi All; To support the Mill upgrades to EMC2 I purchased two D510MO with 2GB RAM each and the MI-100 chassis. (If anyone is interested, the extra $12 and got a) (temporature speed controlled fan cooled chassis) (with two 4 inch wide slots and one 5.625 inch wide) (slot and room for the extra cables) The problems are: On both computers, when I boot EMC 8.04 live disk, in the No Change to the Computer mode using a USB external CD/DVD drive. All goes well until after the orange rectangle goes back and forth then the screen goes to text only with the following message: udevd-event[1293]: run_program '/sbin/modprob' abnormal exit Peter already addressed this one. On Computer #1 EMC 10.04 live disk, No Change Mode, boots fine. Seems to take 10-15 minutes. When done the latency test does nothing. When I attempt to load a example machine configuration (.ini and .hal files) also nothing. All ubuntu function sceme to work fine. On Computer #2 EMC 10.04 live disk, No Change, loads for 5- 10 minutes and starts an endless string of the following messages: [ nnn.nnn] SQUASHFS error unable to Read directory Block [287e7275] [ nnn.nnn] SQUASHFS error unable to Read metadata cache entry [287e7275] Can someone tell me the problem. (I sure hope it's me) Hmmm. Are these two computers booting from the same CD using the same external CD/DVD drive? The error message on Computer #2 is telling us it (or, rather the software loader) thinks the file system recorded on the CD appears faulty. That makes me lean toward Peter's suggestion that you reburn the CD. You might try another drive to burn it on as well. I'm really puzzling over the behavior of Computer #1, since it seems to have booted. Have you opened a terminal and run the command dmesg to see what has been reported during the booting process? If so, do you see anything untoward? Error or warning messages? I assume when you say the latency test does nothing, you are speaking of starting the test from the gui (Applications/CNC/...Latency Test). Try starting it in a terminal windows (/usr/bin/latency-test, or just latency-test) and see what messages you get. If its working, you'll see none. The test will start and a new EMC2/Latency Test window will pop open. Let us know what you find. Regards, Kent It was a tired OLD FATEFUL external drive giving up the ghost and the overnight cold front lowered the shop temp to push it over the edge. After it was left on all day and warmed up it, got over it enough to load EMC 'no change' just fine. However if failed with unrecoverable errors about 70% through the install. Retirement time. Thanks for your help. Don -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] D519MO Boot Problems.
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: It is fairly easy to open up a CD drive and clean the lens with alcohol and a Q-tip, and then after the alcohol residue dries, wipe with a dry Q-tip. I recommed another technique I used when I was younger and messed with lasers in the lab. Use optical lens paper (used to be available in camera stores, in little booklets) Drop a spot of cleanest alcohol (isopropyl is good, but be careful that it's pure and the kind with added glycerin; grain alcohol is fine too) in the middle of the paper. Lay the wet part flat on the lens and slide it off sideways. The wet part will clean the lens and then the dry part will dry it. Yes; you reminded of the technique we used to clean optics in a PME Lab in 1959-60. However lens paper was Military issue. Qtips, tissue paper, etc. have mineral particles in them as whiteners, etc, that could scratch the antireflective coating on the lens, so you want soft paper. Thanks guys it looks like the Old Drive is going into forced retirement. Don -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Intel D510MO ITX Motherboard
Hi Everyone, Here is some info: Following on from a thread a few weeks ago re. ITX boards, I've just bought one of the above motherboards. It is very small and quiet (no fan), I've connected it to my Kingston SSD 30Gb solid state drive and all looks good. Its going to make a very small PC system to run the mill. I had to download the 10.04 Lucid Lynx disto as Hardy Heron did not want to load. I used UNETBOOTIN to create a bootable USB stick - this worked really well and created a bootable USB drive with no issues. I've run the latency test via the live install and get max jitters on the base thread of around 4000 to 6000 ns which looks very good to me. I will install to disk tomorrow night if I have time. Here are the questions: If anyone else is using this board are there any config tips? (I've set the LPT to EPP mode in BIOS) Can anyone advise me on how to create a bare bones 10.04 setup please? (the mill PC is only used to mill + grab OS / EMC updates) When running from the Live CD I can set the base period to 17000ns anything less generates RTAPI delays - is this in keeping with the jitter values? Many thanks. Andy -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] iocontrol user-enable-out
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Lars Andersson l...@larsandersson.comwrote: Hi list, How is iocontrol user-enable-out controlled? That is the pin that goes false when an Estop condition exists, as the Integrator Manual states. In the EMC Axis display, the button in the upper left with a red circle and white X inside displays the state of that pin and provides an operator input to control the state except when some internal condition is causing Estop. (Other ENC displays have their own button arrangements). Typically an external Estop button or an EMC axis (joint) tracking error are the type events that will drive that pin false. Through whatever logic you setup in the .hal file to drive iocontrol.n.emc-enable-in true should require iocontrol user-enable-out to be true. Good luck Don I remember using a tool that created a graphic pictore of HAL nets. I have lost it and cannot find it again. Any pointers please? cheers, Lars A -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] iocontrol user-enable-out
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Don Stanley dstanley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Lars Andersson l...@larsandersson.comwrote: Hi list, How is iocontrol user-enable-out controlled? That is the pin that goes false when an Estop condition exists, as the Integrator Manual states. In the EMC Axis display, the button in the upper left with a red circle and white X inside displays the state of that pin and provides an operator input to control the state except when some internal condition is causing Estop. (Other ENC displays have their own button arrangements). Typically an external Estop button or an EMC axis (joint) tracking error are the type events that will drive that pin false. By the way, I wish that the button would be improved and offered more descriptive and distinct pictures. Like red STOP and green button depending on state. The difference is not easy to tell. i Through whatever logic you setup in the .hal file to drive iocontrol.n.emc-enable-in true should require iocontrol user-enable-out to be true. Good luck Don I remember using a tool that created a graphic pictore of HAL nets. I have lost it and cannot find it again. Any pointers please? cheers, Lars A -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Intel D510MO ITX Motherboard
Andy Ibbotson wrote: When running from the Live CD I can set the base period to 17000ns anything less generates RTAPI delays - is this in keeping with the jitter values? The jitter is only part of the story. When you put tasks in the base thread, they have to finish executing within that thread time. Unfortunately, it is not very easy to find out how long each particular task takes to run on any specific CPU. There are statistics that rtapi takes, however, and so you can check the statistics on all the tasks in your base thread and add them up. You then need to leave a good cushion to cover cache flushes and other things that slow the CPU down from time to time. While 4 - 6 us jitter is QUITE good, that is just the scheduling jitter, ir tells you very little about how much the tasks need. If your base thread tasks take 15 us to complete, then clearly adding 4 - 6 us jitter, you will have trouble with a 17 us base period. Jon -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] iocontrol user-enable-out
Igor Chudov wrote: By the way, I wish that the button would be improved and offered more descriptive and distinct pictures. Like red STOP and green button depending on state. The difference is not easy to tell. Yeah, this has been a long-term annoyance, like since the first actual GUI was done. Unfortunately, the simple graphical widgets provided by various toolkits limit the flexibility in this regard. You have to make up your own custom widgets to get changes of color when selected or true/false. Maybe Python gives more options, but the Tcl/Tk widgets definitely have these limits. The raised/depressed border scheme only works if you are very close to the screen, which is not the typical arrangement for EMC users. Jon -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] M101 - M199 problem
Hello, I am having a problem getting a custom M101 to work. I building a custom tool changer and I am controlling it with an arduino board. I need to send a BCD signal over a spare parallel port. I have a C program that accomplishes this and I can make it work by running it from a terminal. I do however need to run it with sudo. Because of this I also tried a bash script that called the C program and got the same result (no response). Both work from the command line. I get no errors from EMC2. The spare port is not used by EMC2. It is actually the port on the mother board. My machine is running off a PCI parallel port card. The files are also in the appropriate directory. I have entered a echo command in the bash script that is shown when I run it from the command prompt. When run from EMC2 should it appear in a terminal window? I realize I could use classic ladder to accomplish this as well but I don't see why this is not working? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] M101 - M199 problem
Try this: go to your directory with all G code functions etc (program_prefix). Then: ( echo '#!/bin/bash' echo 'echo date /tmp/M156' ) M156 chmod 755 M156 then call M156 from EMC2 Then look at file /tmp/M156 On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Mike Cinquino mcinqu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am having a problem getting a custom M101 to work. I building a custom tool changer and I am controlling it with an arduino board. I need to send a BCD signal over a spare parallel port. I have a C program that accomplishes this and I can make it work by running it from a terminal. I do however need to run it with sudo. Because of this I also tried a bash script that called the C program and got the same result (no response). Both work from the command line. I get no errors from EMC2. The spare port is not used by EMC2. It is actually the port on the mother board. My machine is running off a PCI parallel port card. The files are also in the appropriate directory. I have entered a echo command in the bash script that is shown when I run it from the command prompt. When run from EMC2 should it appear in a terminal window? I realize I could use classic ladder to accomplish this as well but I don't see why this is not working? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
