Re: [Emc-users] Convert G2/G3 to G1
Viesturs, I don't know where your G code is coming from but I believe it is pretty easy to break arcs into segmented lines in Autocad. Then if you export that to a DXF you might be able to use a CAM program to create a number of G1 moves. Dave On 10/13/2011 5:33 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: Hello! I have a special client, who does not understand, when I write in email and tell over the phone that no arc movements (G2/G3) will be executed in UV plane - I just received some complaints that machine is ruining parts, so I asked to send me the g-code file. Guess what did I see there... I would like to ask, if someone can recommend me a way, how I can relatively easily and quickly convert G2/G3 moves into small G1 moves. Well, any possible solution will do. It could be some spreadsheet formulas or whatever. Thanks in advance! Viesturs -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Convert G2/G3 to G1
2011/10/13 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 13 October 2011 10:33, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: I have a special client, who does not understand, when I write in email and tell over the phone that no arc movements (G2/G3) will be executed in UV plane - I just received some complaints that machine is ruining parts, so I asked to send me the g-code file. Guess what did I see there... Is he using IJK or R? IJK format is used. I wonder how hard it is to make R work in UV when the UV plane is selected? (I think that would be a better solution) Yes, this would do. The problem is that I have no idea, how to find that out. I would like to ask, if someone can recommend me a way, how I can relatively easily and quickly convert G2/G3 moves into small G1 moves. Well, any possible solution will do. Any filter would have the same problems as EMC2, how does it tell what the customer intended? On my way to client I came up with a solution - transformation from polar coordinates to cartesian coordinates: 1) I have current tool position and from IJK I can derive center coordinates; 2) from IJK values I can easily calculate length of radius; 3) I need to know the starting angle and end angle - can be derived with atan2() function (current position - center position = value for atan2() function; 4) so now I have everything needed for polar coordinates - start angle, end angle and radius; 5) divide the angle in 1-3 degree increments; 6) convert polar to cartesian space: x=center + R*cos(a) y=center + R*sin(a) 7) since angle increments are equal, then all the small moves are of equal length. I wrote this in spreadsheet in ~15 minutes, not very convenient, but it is acceptable for manufacturing, where one particular part is produced in very large quantities without changes in code. If this is the twin-head machine than I am not sure that they really are UVW axes so much as alternative XYZ axes. Yes, that is a twin-head machine, which processes both ends of wood stick together. The problem is that for some products different profiles at each end are required. 2011/10/13 Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com: I don't have any guess since if someone tried to write arcs in the UV plane, it would just cause an error, not a ruined part. If tool is in X0 Y0 U0 V0 and there is a line G2 X50 Y50 U50 V50 I50 J0 Then XY will do the arc, but UV will do a straight line to the end point. What kind of motion are you talking about? Just plain simple arcs in UV, or some kind of complicated combined motion where UV does one thing while XY does another? Second option would be the ideal solution, because the machine has to process both ends of material simultaneously. Plain simple arcs in UV also would be a step forward from current situation - then at least there would be option to process XY end and after that UV end - I already know that client would object that it is a waste of time and thus increased cost, but at least there would be some options. The problem with my divide arcs in small linear moves approach is that it is too slow, linear moves are too short to reach the required speed even when with G64 P0.1 (that is max deviance acceptable), the tool burns material, so the whole approach is a failure. What I ended up with: Custom pseudokinematics - with use of mux2 components, operator can switch joints 6 and 7 from U and V to X and Y respectively - for those parts, where both ends are the same, they can do all the G2/G3 moves. For those parts, where profiles at both ends are not the same - it is a problem yet to be solved. Thanks, Thomas! I took a look and it seemed to me that they are trying to do something different than that - I also do not speak German (and unfortunately translate tool in Chrome does not offer to translate the contents) they are doing kinematics calcs, where the tool is moved by two wires: http://code.google.com/p/emc2hotwinch/downloads/detail?name=Geometrie.JPG Dave, the idea was to use existing g-code with G2/G3 moves, but as I mentioned, that approach failed. So the question is - how hard would that be to get G2/G3 support for UV plane? It would not matter, if that is IJK format or R format. Viesturs -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Carousel Motion
I now have an encoder mounted to my tool carousel. I linked the encoder to a PID and found that each pocket is 720 counts apart. I can travel in either way to get to a pocket, but there is no motion control, so the start and stop is pretty abrupt. I am starting to consider implementing some sort of motion planning to control the acceleration on each side of the move, but now that I actually need to create the solution it becomes more complicated. Finding the closest path to the target pocket should be easy. The next step is to feed position commands to the PID to control the trajectory. A couple of issues are that the carousel will not be an axis and the motion component is not available during a tool change, also position overshoot (but eventually corrected) is acceptable. As is, the straight PID works okay, but if I increase the maximum carousel speed (very likely), the start/stop jerk may become a problem. Any pointers on how to attack this problem would be appreciated. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On 14 October 2011 16:15, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: As is, the straight PID works okay, but if I increase the maximum carousel speed (very likely), the start/stop jerk may become a problem. Any pointers on how to attack this problem would be appreciated. If you pass the command position to the PID through a limit3 block you should be able to control the accel-decel. -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 08:15:52AM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: As is, the straight PID works okay, but if I increase the maximum carousel speed (very likely), the start/stop jerk may become a problem. Any pointers on how to attack this problem would be appreciated. Consider using a limit3 block. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
Kirk Wallace wrote: I now have an encoder mounted to my tool carousel. I linked the encoder to a PID and found that each pocket is 720 counts apart. I can travel in either way to get to a pocket, but there is no motion control, so the start and stop is pretty abrupt. I am starting to consider implementing some sort of motion planning to control the acceleration on each side of the move, but now that I actually need to create the solution it becomes more complicated. Finding the closest path to the target pocket should be easy. The next step is to feed position commands to the PID to control the trajectory. A couple of issues are that the carousel will not be an axis and the motion component is not available during a tool change, also position overshoot (but eventually corrected) is acceptable. As is, the straight PID works okay, but if I increase the maximum carousel speed (very likely), the start/stop jerk may become a problem. Any pointers on how to attack this problem would be appreciated. You cold build a stupid trajectory planner as a hal component. It would take a couple parameters such as max speed and acceleration, and a pin for final position. It would accelerate to max speed and then compute the point at which it needs to start decelerating. I did one of these in an FPGA driving a stepper where we wanted rapid movement to the final point without the risk of stalling the stepper. It was all done with just adds and subtracts, although all constants were hard-coded. I wouldn't think this would take more than a dozen lines of C code. You can still use the PID and whatever servo driver and drive would be used, just like it was an axis. Jon -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port Utility
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 13:41 -0700, doug metzler wrote: Hey Kirk, did you ever go anywhere with this? Thanks, DougM On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:04 AM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:03:31 PM doug metzler did opine: 1) loopback test to confirm that the port is actually working? Esp. if it would report back what address it found the loopback adapter on. 2) something that that tells me who is holding or has handles to it? (I'm sure this already exists but it would be nice to be encapsulated in the same place) 3) a wizard that configures it for EMC :-) Sorry, I haven't gotten round to it yet. After having a couple of new issues with using my Pluto-P with a PCI parallel port card, it seems I don't have a full understanding of the problem yet. I suppose this should not prevent me from posting the current status of the utility on the wiki, when I get round to it. There is a parallel port tester of sorts in the pyVCP examples here: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal_pyvcp_examples.html One could just use a jumper wire from an input hole to an output to verify that the puns, rather pins, work. A more formal tester hardware would try to protect the port from the user doing silly things, but basically do the same thing. I'll try to make progress on this soon, maybe. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:50:54AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: You cold build a stupid trajectory planner as a hal component. It would take a couple parameters such as max speed and acceleration, and a pin for final position. This is what limit3 does. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: I now have an encoder mounted to my tool carousel. I linked the encoder to a PID and found that each pocket is 720 counts apart. I can travel in either way to get to a pocket, but there is no motion control, so the start and stop is pretty abrupt. I am starting to consider implementing some sort of motion planning to control the acceleration on each side of the move, but now that I actually need to create the solution it becomes more complicated. Finding the closest path to the target pocket should be easy. The next step is to feed position commands to the PID to control the trajectory. A couple of issues are that the carousel will not be an axis and the motion component is not available during a tool change, also position overshoot (but eventually corrected) is acceptable. As is, the straight PID works okay, but if I increase the maximum carousel speed (very likely), the start/stop jerk may become a problem. Any pointers on how to attack this problem would be appreciated. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users dang its like an airpot! limit3 examples in http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/hal_hal-examples.html hth tomp -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 10:58 -0500, Chris Radek wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:50:54AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: You cold build a stupid trajectory planner as a hal component. It would take a couple parameters such as max speed and acceleration, and a pin for final position. This is what limit3 does. Thanks Andy, Chris, Jon. I considered limit3 but I thought it would not limit the deceleration until the endpoint was reached and the PID starts to call for it. This would draw out an overshoot, which technically, is okay, but not very elegant. I suppose I could try two endpoints. One to start the deceleration, the other the final stop point. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 11:08 -0500, Thomas Powderly wrote: ... snip dang its like an airpot! limit3 examples in http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/hal_hal-examples.html hth tomp Thanks for the link. I haven't seen that one yet. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:22:00AM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 10:58 -0500, Chris Radek wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:50:54AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: You cold build a stupid trajectory planner as a hal component. It would take a couple parameters such as max speed and acceleration, and a pin for final position. This is what limit3 does. Thanks Andy, Chris, Jon. I considered limit3 but I thought it would not limit the deceleration until the endpoint was reached and the PID starts to call for it. This would draw out an overshoot, which technically, is okay, but not very elegant. No, on the contrary, it does exactly what you want. It will stop exactly at the destination endpoint without violating the given constraints of position and derivatives. This of course means it has to start decelerating before reaching the endpoint. limit3 - Limit the output signal to fall between min and max, limit its slew rate to less than maxv per second, and limit its second derivative to less than maxa per second squared. When the signal is a position, this means that the position, velocity, and acceleration are limited. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 11:47 -0500, Chris Radek wrote: ... snip No, on the contrary, it does exactly what you want. ... snip Great, thanks. I'm on my way to the shop to try it out. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On 14 October 2011 16:15, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: the start/stop jerk may become a problem. Actually, this is possibly a case where you do want jerk-limited (rate of change of acceleration) limiting, and that would require the as-yet-unwritten limit4 HAL function. jerk-limited motion ought to rattle the tools round in the carousel less. -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Can someone make a Mesa 7i43 firmware load for me?
Hi, Peter Wallace built a custom firmware load for my 7i43 card a while back. I want to make some slight changes to it and Peter is on vacation. Is someone else set up to build them that could help me out? I can send a modified .vhd file... Thanks, -Tom -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 18:22 +0100, andy pugh wrote: On 14 October 2011 16:15, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: the start/stop jerk may become a problem. Actually, this is possibly a case where you do want jerk-limited (rate of change of acceleration) limiting, and that would require the as-yet-unwritten limit4 HAL function. jerk-limited motion ought to rattle the tools round in the carousel less. The original carousel used a Geneva drive: http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/atc_manual/bandit_changer-0067.png which would start/stop for each pocket and move in one direction. If one wanted to go from T1 to T24, it would rattle the tools 24 times. It wasn't too bad and I suppose the tools would usually be in sequence, but I think the upgrade will be worth it. I went to the shop to install limit3, but got called away. Just in case anyone is interested, I did take a few of pictures before I left: http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/100_1127-1a.JPG http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/100_1131-1a.JPG http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/100_1133-1a.JPG I tried to get a shot of the gear motor, but it is black and in a shadow, so I need to get more light. Now, I'm going back out to the shop, again. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On 10/14/2011 3:27 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 18:22 +0100, andy pugh wrote: On 14 October 2011 16:15, Kirk Wallacekwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: the start/stop jerk may become a problem. Actually, this is possibly a case where you do want jerk-limited (rate of change of acceleration) limiting, and that would require the as-yet-unwritten limit4 HAL function. jerk-limited motion ought to rattle the tools round in the carousel less. The original carousel used a Geneva drive: http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/atc_manual/bandit_changer-0067.png which would start/stop for each pocket and move in one direction. If one wanted to go from T1 to T24, it would rattle the tools 24 times. It wasn't too bad and I suppose the tools would usually be in sequence, but I think the upgrade will be worth it. I went to the shop to install limit3, but got called away. Just in case anyone is interested, I did take a few of pictures before I left: http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/100_1127-1a.JPG http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/100_1131-1a.JPG http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/100_1133-1a.JPG I tried to get a shot of the gear motor, but it is black and in a shadow, so I need to get more light. Now, I'm going back out to the shop, again. The limit3 function is a very useful function. I have it running 3 axis on one machine at high speeds. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Source tree at server hacked
http://linuxcnc.org/hardy/dists/hardy/emc2.4-sim/binary-amd64/ -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Source tree at server hacked
On 14 October 2011 23:17, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: http://linuxcnc.org/hardy/dists/hardy/emc2.4-sim/binary-amd64/ I hope he is very proud of himself :-( Tosser. -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Can someone make a Mesa 7i43 firmware load for me?
Hi, Peter Wallace built a custom firmware load for my 7i43 card a while back. I want to make some slight changes to it and Peter is on vacation. Is someone else set up to build them that could help me out? I can send a modified .vhd file... Thanks, -Tom Tom, I just successfully built SVST4_12B.BIT today, so I believe I am all set up. I didn't realize Peter was on vacation, though. He responded to an email question I sent him this morning. If you send me your vhd file(s) and tell me which card (200K or 400K) you are using, I'll try building a bitstream for you. -- Ralph -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] M6 tool offset
Has anyone though about adding a line in the ini file for the M6 command so one could run a file or even just the gcode commands so one may probe for the tool height after the toolchange and store the height Right now I have to add the line after each toolchange so this happens It just would be nice if there was an option to do something like this for those who have machine setup with a height probe or even some other options that require a tool move Or is there more to doing something like this? -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Updated deb-package to run emc2-sim on 11.04
Guys, I made a package to run the simulator on an 11.04-installation. It's available for public download here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45105575/emc2_2.4_SIM_for_U11.04.deb A video of it running is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbax-BpokFg I'll update the wiki as well, if there's any interest for the community to keep the package somewhere else (like the cnclinux server) please copy. :) -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] M6 tool offset
On 14 October 2011 23:30, Kasey Matejcek someo...@lkm.bz wrote: Has anyone though about adding a line in the ini file for the M6 command so one could run a file Yes, I think it is only in master though: http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=emc2.git;a=commit;h=9b8a8af556ad36efd2bad7701e1c228cf9ab1ffa -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
Chris Radek wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:50:54AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: You cold build a stupid trajectory planner as a hal component. It would take a couple parameters such as max speed and acceleration, and a pin for final position. This is what limit3 does. Yes, now that you point it out, it does exactly what is needed! I hadn't realized it would do all THREE parts of the problem. Jon -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Source tree at server hacked
Sven Wesley wrote: http://linuxcnc.org/hardy/dists/hardy/emc2.4-sim/binary-amd64/ I don't see anything unusual there, and nothing later than March 2011. Did I miss it? Jon -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Source tree at server hacked
On 10/14/2011 07:33 PM, Jon Elson wrote: Sven Wesley wrote: http://linuxcnc.org/hardy/dists/hardy/emc2.4-sim/binary-amd64/ I don't see anything unusual there, and nothing later than March 2011. Did I miss it? You may have another chance here... http://linuxcnc.org/hardy/dists/hardy/base/backup/main.jpg Karl -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Toolchange with remapped codes - status (was: Re: M6 tool offset)
Kasey, I've been working on this for a while. Here are two examples - a manual toolchange with tool length probe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg8b4OyRZXkfeature=mfu_in_orderlist=UL M6 is handled by this NGC procedure: http://git.mah.priv.at/gitweb/emc2-dev.git/blob/5a7036b02e3ed2aad84cd82689f0df7a790fa162:/configs/sim/remap/manual-toolchange-with-tool-length-switch/nc_subroutines/manual_change.ngc and a rack toolchanger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOd_j7OlopEfeature=mfu_in_orderlist=UL M5 is handled by these routines: http://git.mah.priv.at/gitweb/emc2-dev.git/tree/5a7036b02e3ed2aad84cd82689f0df7a790fa162:/configs/sim/remap/rack-toolchange/nc_subroutines The branch supporting these features is in http://git.mah.priv.at/gitweb/emc2-dev.git/shortlog/refs/heads/remapping-preview-1 - it is not merged into master yet, but I'm encouraging experienced users to experiment with it. If this fits the bill, and you feel comfortable building EMC from source, drop me a note. I keep formatted documentation around at: http://emc.mah.priv.at/docs/remap/html/remap/structure.html (I admit this is way too much detail for general use - I'll split this up into 'Configuring toolchange' and 'All the gory details' parts eventually). - Michael Am 15.10.2011 um 00:30 schrieb Kasey Matejcek: Has anyone though about adding a line in the ini file for the M6 command so one could run a file or even just the gcode commands so one may probe for the tool height after the toolchange and store the height Right now I have to add the line after each toolchange so this happens It just would be nice if there was an option to do something like this for those who have machine setup with a height probe or even some other options that require a tool move Or is there more to doing something like this? -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] config without encoders
We are having some issues turning a servo motor with a Granite Devices drive and in the process accidentally fried our homemade differential to single ended conversion boards. We ordered some parts to repair them and in the mean time I modified my hal config to ignore encoder feedback so we could continue to test other issues. When we run above 2000ipm we have significant following error and the motor overshoots it's mark by a decent amount (say, an inch or so) and then comes back. Shouldn't EMC think that commanded position and actual position are always in sync with the config below or am I missing something? Could our Mesa cards be doing something wrong? #*** # AXIS Y #*** # Step Gen signals/setup setp hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.dirsetup[AXIS_1]DIRSETUP setp hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.dirhold [AXIS_1]DIRHOLD setp hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.steplen [AXIS_1]STEPLEN setp hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.stepspace [AXIS_1]STEPSPACE setp hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.position-scale [AXIS_1]SCALE setp hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.maxaccel[AXIS_1]MAX_ACCELERATION setp hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.maxvel [AXIS_1]MAX_VELOCITY setp hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.step_type0 setp hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.control-type 0 net ypos-fb axis.1.motor-pos-fb = hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.position-fb net ypos-cmdaxis.1.motor-pos-cmd = hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.position-cmd net yenable axis.1.amp-enable-out = hm2_7i43.0.stepgen.01.enable Thanks, -Tom -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Wiring Standards
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: A couple of years ago there was a company selling fused plugs in the US in the local Menards, but I haven't seen them sold since then. FWIW, some (few) bathroom appliances (hair dryers, etc) have a GFCI fuse in the plug. As you can see from the GFCI I am talking about the US. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Motion
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 15:43 -0400, Dave wrote: ... snip The limit3 function is a very useful function. I have it running 3 axis on one machine at high speeds. I got it to work. http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/Carousel_Overview-1a.png limit3 doesn't really work the way I would think a limit function would work, but it supplies just what I need very well. It took me way too many hours of tuning to figure out just what HALscope was showing me, that being the motor coupler was loose. After tightening it, it worked much better. I was expecting to need a hardware PWM generator, but the software generator works well. I have a Pluto-P PWM servo channel running my spindle, so I'll probably use another for the carousel as other things get sorted out. My encoder is from a broken Epson C80 printer. It has 4320 pulses per revolution but no index. I don't always need an index, so I should look for more C80's in my pile out back before it rains again. Free is good. Homing will need to be worked out, or I could rig up an absolute encoder. I found that if I setp encoder.0.reset 1, the carousel starts rotating until I get it set back to 0, and of course the home position is then lost. I suppose the procedure is to move the carousel to the home position, disable the PWM output, then set and reset encoder.0.reset, ensure the position command is 0, then enable the PWM output. I seem to need to figure this stuff out the hard way. I need to work more on parameters for setting gain and scales to make sure I don't saturate or not leave any bandwidth unused from each element in the chain (limit3, PID, PWMgen). Next I'll need to get the T numbers mapped to the encoder positions and get the gripper to work. Thanks everyone for the help. I'll get a video of the carousel when I get the camera figured out. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
