Re: [Emc-users] Stepconf wizard issue EMC 2.4.5
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, BRIAN GLACKIN wrote: > Files attached. > > I had to change my leadscrew to 20 in order to get it to move the correct > distances. > > Leadscrew is actually a 10-1 acme. > I had to change the dip switch on the driver board to match the micro step I set in stepconf Richard -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Stepconf wizard issue EMC 2.4.5
DOH I was trying to do these changes with my wife asking me to reorganize the basement at the same time.. I will move the jumpers when I get home and all will be good. Brian On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Chris Morley wrote: > > Brian its not clear to me - did you change stepconf and your step driver > from 8 micro steps to 4 or just stepconf? > The micro step setting must match the setting of your step driver. > > Chris M > > > -- > Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any > company > that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to > best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure > and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > ___ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Changing the range of Max Velocity in AXIS
Happy belated new year everybody. On EMC2.4.6 using the Axis interface on a machine that has linear and angular axes, how can I change the range of the slider labeled "Max Velocity"? The other sliders, like Max Angular Velocity or Min Linear Velocity, are all configured in the INI file > Display section. I tried adding a line in that section containing MAX_VELOCITY = "different values" but the slider remains stuck at 150 IPM no matter what I try. Alternately is there a way to delete this slider so G-code (F word) always determines the feed rates without capping them? Any help is certainly appreciated. Jim This communication is for the use of the intended recipient only. It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, the disclosure, copying, distribution or use hereof is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please advise me by return e-mail or by telephone and then delete it immediately. -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] ubuntu lucid 10.10 64bit and emc
Dear all, I had to get a new computer for my CNC hobby and since I will be using the new machine also for other tasks i bought i relatively high spec (at least for me :-)) machine: Processor:AMD Athlon II X4 640, 3.0GHz, AM3, 4C/4TRAM:4 GB, DDR3-1333 Motherboard:M4A78LT-M, mATXChipset:AMD 760G/SB710Graphic:Integrated ATI Radeon 3000 (shared)just added a pci lpt card Now i have ventured out to try installing ubuntu 10.10_64bit and theb try to run emc2 on it. The install of ubuntu has worked like a charm and everything seems to be supported. Since then I have mainly followed this guide ->Ubuntu10.04Notes and executed the following commands: sudo apt-get install fakeroot build-essential crash kexec-tools makedumpfile kernel-wedge sudo apt-get build-dep linux sudo apt-get install git-core libncurses5 libncurses5-dev binutils-dev libelf-dev asciidoc xmlto git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-lucid.git ubuntu-lucid cd ubuntu-lucid git branch rtai git checkout rtai fdr clean fdr startnewrelease Then my old display (the one from the dead computer) gave up on me and I had to buy a new screen first. Now i am back and I can see myself typing again ;-) The next command would be patch -p1 < hal-linux-2.6.xx.x-x86-x.x-xx.patch but here i think i should take the patch for amd64, no? Thanks for helping me out here as I am still a bit "green behind the ears" with linux in general. Also if you see any obvious reason why i shouldn't be doing this at all, please let me know :-) as i have not put so much thought into this. Thanks Nik -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] ubuntu lucid 10.10 64bit and emc
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:40 PM, N Z wrote: > Dear all, > I had to get a new computer for my CNC hobby and since I will be using the > new machine also for other tasks i bought i relatively high spec (at least > for me :-)) machine: > Thanks for helping me out here as I am still a bit "green behind the ears" > with linux in general. > > Also if you see any obvious reason why i shouldn't be doing this at all, > please let me know :-) > as i have not put so much thought into this. > > Thanks > Nik The most obvious reason not to do this is that the 32 bit version of EMC will work fine. Just install a dual boot system. My desktop is set up that way, it will boot into EMC if I ask it to. The latency is very good. I assume that someday there will be a 64 bit version of EMC, but it is a non-trivial task to build a real-time kernel that is stable. And that is true for people that have done it a number of times. So for someone that is new to linux, it may not work out well at all. To be perfectly honest about it, I don't think having a 64 bit version of Ubuntu has been worth it just to allow it to use more memory. Eric -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] ubuntu lucid 10.10 64bit and emc
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Eric Keller wrote: > > To be perfectly honest about it, I don't think having a 64 bit version > of Ubuntu has been worth it just to allow it to use more memory. > Eric > > Actually, you can have a computer with, say, 16 GB of memory and run a 32 bit Ubuntu. I do just that, and it works great. It is called PAE. What I am not so sure about, is whether the RT kernel supports PAE. My EMC computer on the Bridgeport mill has 4 GB of RAM and that is by far sufficient to run EMC, watch youtube and edit stuff with xemacs at the same time. i -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] ubuntu lucid 10.10 64bit and emc
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Eric Keller wrote: > > To be perfectly honest about it, I don't think having a 64 bit version > of Ubuntu has been worth it just to allow it to use more memory. > Eric > > Actually, you can have a computer with, say, 16 GB of memory and run a 32 bit Ubuntu. I do just that, and it works great. It is called PAE. What I am not so sure about, is whether the RT kernel supports PAE. My EMC computer on the Bridgeport mill has 4 GB of RAM and that is by far sufficient to run EMC, watch youtube and edit stuff with xemacs at the same time. i -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] ubuntu lucid 10.10 64bit and emc
> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:45:15 -0500 > From: eekel...@psu.edu > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] ubuntu lucid 10.10 64bit and emc > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:40 PM, N Z wrote: > > Dear all, > > I had to get a new computer for my CNC hobby and since I will be using the > > new machine also for other tasks i bought i relatively high spec (at least > > for me :-)) machine: > > > Thanks for helping me out here as I am still a bit "green behind the ears" > > with linux in general. > > > > Also if you see any obvious reason why i shouldn't be doing this at all, > > please let me know :-) > > as i have not put so much thought into this. > > > > Thanks > > Nik > The most obvious reason not to do this is that the 32 bit version of > EMC will work fine. Just install a dual boot system. My desktop is > set up that way, it will boot into EMC if I ask it to. The latency is > very good. I assume that someday there will be a 64 bit version of > EMC, but it is a non-trivial task to build a real-time kernel that is > stable. And that is true for people that have done it a number of > times. So for someone that is new to linux, it may not work out well > at all. > > To be perfectly honest about it, I don't think having a 64 bit version > of Ubuntu has been worth it just to allow it to use more memory. > Eric > Dear Eric, thanks for the fast reply. I already thought that currently there would not be any real gain by setting up the 64bit version, maybe a little bit when transcoding movies or trying the new CAELinux 2010 (my old comp was too low spec). I mainly went for it because i never had a 64bit system on any of my computers so far ;-) and it seemed like a good opportunity to try... I will still try a little but if things turn bad i will as you suggest install the 32bit version as this seems to be the most reasonable thing to do at the moment... Nik -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] ubuntu lucid 10.10 64bit and emc
N Z wrote: > > > Dear Eric, > thanks for the fast reply. I already thought that currently there > would not be any real gain by setting up the 64bit version, maybe a little > bit when transcoding movies or trying the new CAELinux 2010 (my old comp was > too low spec). > > I mainly went for it because i never had a 64bit system on any of > my computers so far ;-) and it seemed like a good opportunity to try... > > I will still try a little but if things turn bad i will as you suggest install > the 32bit version as this seems to be the most reasonable thing to do at the > moment... > Movies are probably not going to benefit any. The ONLY thing a 64-bit system does for you is it allows a SINGLE application to use more than 2 GB of memory in one address space. Huge SQL databases, huge CAD surface models and computational fluid dynamics are the places where you run into this. Jon -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] ubuntu lucid 10.10 64bit and emc
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Movies are probably not going to benefit any. The ONLY thing a 64-bit > system does for you is it allows a SINGLE application to use more than 2 > GB of memory in one address space. More than 3 GB Huge SQL databases, huge CAD surface > models and computational fluid dynamics are the places where you run > into this. > > For SQL databases, the OS caching could help beyond 3 GB. I agree with everything else, usefulness of 64 bit has been overrated and I find more bugs on 64 bit systems. Hopefully it will change in a few years, with memory getting cheaper and bugs getting fixed. i -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] HAL Documentation: canonical encoder, linksp, linkps, newsig
Hello, I think that the Chapter 4 Canonical Device Interfaces lacks a section about the canonical encoder, as I've seen it referenced elsewhere. Am I right? Also, I've not seen any reference to "linksp linkps and newsig" that are used in some .hal files of example configurations of current version. I suppose they are obsolete, although supported, and that their functionality is intended to be replaced with net. Am I right? Also about "=>" or "<=" in "net" commands: I understand from the examples that they are optional, but I think that this is not reflected in the manual. Thank you, Javier -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] ubuntu lucid 10.10 64bit and emc
Igor Chudov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > >> Movies are probably not going to benefit any. The ONLY thing a 64-bit >> system does for you is it allows a SINGLE application to use more than 2 >> GB of memory in one address space. >> > > > More than 3 GB > > > Huge SQL databases, huge CAD surface > >> models and computational fluid dynamics are the places where you run >> into this. >> >> For SQL databases, the OS caching could help beyond 3 GB. >> > > I agree with everything else, usefulness of 64 bit has been overrated and I > find more bugs on 64 bit systems. > > Hopefully it will change in a few years, with memory getting cheaper and > bugs getting fixed. > Also, certain software requires different licenses to run on a 64-bit OS, and there are also export restrictions. It certainly does nothing for any of the work I do, although others working in the same fields that do bigger projects may need it. Jon -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] HAL Documentation: canonical encoder, linksp, linkps, newsig
Javier Ros wrote: > Hello, > > I think that the Chapter 4 Canonical Device Interfaces > lacks a section about the canonical encoder, as I've seen it referenced > elsewhere. > > Am I right? > Yes, something happened over a year ago, and at least a whole page disappeared from the document. You can go back to a 2009, or possibly 2008 version and there is much more info there. Hopefully, John Thornton or somebody can go and put this back. > Also, I've not seen any reference to "linksp linkps and newsig" that are > used in some .hal files > of example configurations of current version. > newsig, linksp and the inverse are obsolete, but still supported. In the original HAL, you had to define the signal on one line, and then link each pin to the signal on a separate line. Now, the net command is preferred, where the definition and pins can all be on one line. > I suppose they are obsolete, although supported, and that their > functionality is intended to be replaced > with net. > Yes, exactly. > Also about "=>" or "<=" in "net" commands: I understand from the examples > that they are optional, but > Yes, they are optional, and have no meaning except for human clarification. Jon -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] ubuntu lucid 10.10 64bit and emc
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Movies are probably not going to benefit any. The ONLY thing a 64-bit > system does for you is it allows a SINGLE application to use more than 2 > GB of memory in one address space. Huge SQL databases, huge CAD surface > models and computational fluid dynamics are the places where you run > into this. Well, actually, 64-bit mode has a small but measurable speed advantage, simply because the CPU has better architectural features (more registers, new instructions, etc) in the 64-bit mode. The speedup varies (and is sometimes negative) but people reported benchmarks from 20% faster to 20% slower, depending on the task: http://64-bit-computers.com/linux-ubuntu-610-64-bit-vs-32-bit-benchmark-test.html At the same time, 64-bit architecture is still 'new' as far as software is concerned: since the datatypes changed, we are through another 'not all the world is a VAX' transition, with software bugs and incompatibilities; e.g. AFAIK, Adobe still doesn't have a 64-bit flash player. So, I agree that 32-bit is the safe choice. This email is typed on a 32-bit Linux machine, but I am using a 64-bit Linux at work. -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
