Re: [Emc-users] PID BLDC
2011/11/27 Jan de Kruyf jan.de.kr...@gmail.com: At the same time the rise of the 5 Volt is guaranteed to be fast enough in this way. And see what happens. You never know. I took a small switch from an old PC PSU, inserted in the +5V wire. Does not help. I will check the cabling with multimeter to see, if they are ok and then proceed with any conclusions. 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] PID BLDC
2011/11/27 Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com: If you are not booting EMC2 up immediately, then you should be able to power up the PC, let the voltage stabilize (??) and then start EMC2. That should negate any power supply - slow rise time issues - if they exist. I thought about that too. I start EMC only after OS has loaded and that takes at least 1 minute on this PC (I am booting it from CompactFlash memory card), there should be plenty of time for PSU to become stable. Anyway, adding switch does not help. Viesturs, if you post your hal and ini file some place, I will try and load the same setup that you have on this MW525, with a 7i43 tonight. Thank You! INI and HAL files are here (I have not bothered yet to change the names of files as I started with existing sample config): http://www.cutting.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/7i43-big.ini http://www.cutting.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/hm2-servo.hal 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] PID BLDC
2011. gada 27. Nov. 09:41 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com rakstīja: I will check the cabling with multimeter to see, if they are ok and then proceed with any conclusions. I checked all 25 leads in D525-to-7i43 cable, they all are good. The only remaining thing, where the problem can be, is the 7i43 card itself (or its drivers). 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)
On 11/26/2011 5:32 PM, Robert van dyke wrote: Please remove me from your mailing list. Bob Van Dyke -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users See that little linky there at the bottom of your post? The long one? If you click on that link, and scroll to the bottom of the page, there's an option for you to unsubscribe yourself. You subscribed to the list, you have to unsubscribe yourself. Mark -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] PID BLDC
2011. gada 27. novembris 12:17 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com rakstīja: I checked all 25 leads in D525-to-7i43 cable, they all are good. The only remaining thing, where the problem can be, is the 7i43 card itself (or its drivers). I have an update: Card is receiving 4,83 V, but no LEDs turn on, when I turn on the power switch for the card. Any ideas, where should I look? 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] PID BLDC
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Viesturs L?cis wrote: Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:25:30 +0200 From: [UTF-8] Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] PID BLDC 2011. gada 27. novembris 12:17 Viesturs L??cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com rakst??ja: I checked all 25 leads in D525-to-7i43 cable, they all are good. The only remaining thing, where the problem can be, is the 7i43 card itself (or its drivers). I have an update: Card is receiving 4,83 V, but no LEDs turn on, when I turn on the power switch for the card. Any ideas, where should I look? Viesturs If you have no LEDs with the 7I43 powered via the green terminal block, this indicates that the 7I43s 3.3V power supply is not working. I would check with no daughtercards and no parallel cable to verify that there is not an external problem -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your ()_() signature to help him gain world domination. -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing
On 7 November 2011 04:32, Kent A. Reed knbr...@erols.com wrote: Once you've settled on an approach I hope you'll provide pictures for the rest of us to ooh and aah over :-) I have been thinking about this, and settled down to design a purely mechanical High-Speed spindle for my milling machine. It has a BT30 spindle and, like many oldr machines, a range of speeds, all of which are slow. In this case the are speeds from 46 to 1200 rpm. http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle.html It looks a bit of a mess in HTML, but if you download the PDFs and view them in Adobe Reader they look a lot better, and you can pan/tilt/rotate, change to wireframe etc. It is based on a supercharger I saw at work some time ago. It is purely friction-drive (for smoothness, and cheapness). The outer (green) spring-band is a very tight fit and clamps the (off the shelf) 6204 bearings hard against the ER11 collet chuck 8mm shaft ($10 from eBay CTS Tools). The outer band needs to be held stationary by some peg/bracket/arm which is not shown. Also not shown is the nose-seal holder (which also tensions the bearings and depends on the exact design of the collet chuck and how the collet chuck is located in the nose bearings (no idea, possibly a split-clamp and jack-screws, maybe just a loctite-ed collar) The design shown has a 104:8 ratio, so for a 1000rpm input speed the output would be 13,000 rpm. -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] PID BLDC
On Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:33:28 AM Viesturs Lācis did opine: 2011. gada 27. novembris 12:17 Viesturs Lؤپcis viesturs.la...@gmail.com rakstؤ«ja: I checked all 25 leads in D525-to-7i43 cable, they all are good. The only remaining thing, where the problem can be, is the 7i43 card itself (or its drivers). I have an update: Card is receiving 4,83 V, but no LEDs turn on, when I turn on the power switch for the card. Any ideas, where should I look? Viesturs 4.83V is borderline low but I haven't noted a reset circuit yet that wouldn't accept it unless a scaling resistor had drifted. Is anything hot, or cold that should be warm? Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. -- George Chapman -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing
On Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:52:34 AM andy pugh did opine: On 7 November 2011 04:32, Kent A. Reed knbr...@erols.com wrote: Once you've settled on an approach I hope you'll provide pictures for the rest of us to ooh and aah over :-) I have been thinking about this, and settled down to design a purely mechanical High-Speed spindle for my milling machine. It has a BT30 spindle and, like many oldr machines, a range of speeds, all of which are slow. In this case the are speeds from 46 to 1200 rpm. http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle.html Clear, empty page displayed here. Error: is not copy/pastable. Something about an uncaught exception in line 363. It looks a bit of a mess in HTML, but if you download the PDFs and view them in Adobe Reader they look a lot better, and you can pan/tilt/rotate, change to wireframe etc. It is based on a supercharger I saw at work some time ago. It is purely friction-drive (for smoothness, and cheapness). The outer (green) spring-band is a very tight fit and clamps the (off the shelf) 6204 bearings hard against the ER11 collet chuck 8mm shaft ($10 from eBay CTS Tools). The outer band needs to be held stationary by some peg/bracket/arm which is not shown. Also not shown is the nose-seal holder (which also tensions the bearings and depends on the exact design of the collet chuck and how the collet chuck is located in the nose bearings (no idea, possibly a split-clamp and jack-screws, maybe just a loctite-ed collar) The design shown has a 104:8 ratio, so for a 1000rpm input speed the output would be 13,000 rpm. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene The Ancient Doctrine of Mind Over Matter: I don't mind... and you don't matter. -- As revealed to reporter G. Rivera by Swami Havabanana -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing
On Sunday, November 27, 2011 12:25:31 PM andy pugh did opine: On 27 November 2011 16:56, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Clear, empty page displayed here. Strange. What does the source say. How about direct links? http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle.pdf http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle2.pdf http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle3.pdf These worked fine. I didn't note a method to take up for overall wear in the outer band though. Or is the load on the bearing outer races such that no brinneling occurs? Interesting design, which has also been reversed in small potentiometers in order to give a very fine tuning of the value. It that case however, ball bearings with axial preload maintains the friction, while allowing slippage to save the bog std pot mechanism when it reaches the end of the rotation. As such, with flat bearing faces, it seems like it would have a limited operational lifetime, perhaps thousand hours? Perhaps 5 thousandths taper, matched in the output shaft diameter so the axial location bearing could be used as the preload adjuster comes to mind. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: He was giving it last rites. -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing
On 27 November 2011 17:39, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: These worked fine. I didn't note a method to take up for overall wear in the outer band though. Or is the load on the bearing outer races such that no brinneling occurs? The same design seemed to be considered OK for a supercharger (which would be running at 100,000 rpm and would be expected to last as long as an engine) My first guess was that the ring should be 1mm smaller than the collective OD of the bearings, and that the flex would take up wear for some time. The failure mode that concerns me most is actually fatigue of the outer ring due to the ocntinued flexing. Wear of the inner shaft would happen much faster, but those are an off-the-shelf and cheap part. -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing
On Sunday, November 27, 2011 01:01:17 PM andy pugh did opine: On 27 November 2011 17:39, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: These worked fine. I didn't note a method to take up for overall wear in the outer band though. Or is the load on the bearing outer races such that no brinneling occurs? The same design seemed to be considered OK for a supercharger (which would be running at 100,000 rpm and would be expected to last as long as an engine) My first guess was that the ring should be 1mm smaller than the collective OD of the bearings, and that the flex would take up wear for some time. The failure mode that concerns me most is actually fatigue of the outer ring due to the ocntinued flexing. at a 1mm undersize, that matches what I am thinking too. It would have to be made not from bearing steel, but a spring steel alloy. This flex has to be allowed for while restraining its rotation somehow. Yes, McCullough sold a boatload of those super chargers, but during the time of their popularity, until the more efficient exhaust driven turbos showed up, their operational lifetime was far less than the engine they were feeding unless it was burning dynamite in a full race build, 5 to 10k miles maximum on a street engine. There was at one point, a quite thriving rebuild industry around them in the early 60's into the 70's. Wear of the inner shaft would happen much faster, but those are an off-the-shelf and cheap part. With, I assume some sort of a 3 piston squeezer to loosen it enough to put the new shaft in. :) I toyed with a 2 gear idea for my teeny little mill and came to the conclusion that what I would gain would be short life of that puny little 200 watt motor on it. So I mounted an HF die grinder off to one side, which works well. Noisy though. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene ...his disciples lead him in; he just does the rest. -- The Who, Tommy -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing
On 27 November 2011 18:16, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: at a 1mm undersize, that matches what I am thinking too. It would have to be made not from bearing steel, but a spring steel alloy. This flex has to be allowed for while restraining its rotation somehow. I don't think that it would need to be anything particularly exotic, the wall is deliberately fairly thin to keep the surface strain down. Yes, McCullough sold a boatload of those super chargers, but during the time of their popularity, until the more efficient exhaust driven turbos showed up, their operational lifetime was far less than the engine they were feeding unless it was burning dynamite in a full race build, 5 to 10k miles maximum on a street engine. There was at one point, a quite thriving rebuild industry around them in the early 60's into the 70's. The one I was looking at was for fitment to a 2006 model year car (it didn't make it into production). The picture at the bottom of this page: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6764656 Seems to indicate a rather different design. With, I assume some sort of a 3 piston squeezer to loosen it enough to put the new shaft in. :) Yes, assembly is an unsolved question. I was imagining that it would probably be possible to wedge/shim the three ball bearings apart, push in the shaft, and then roll the shims out. (Actually, using the lathe 3-jaw chuck to deform the outer ring into the correct shape would probably be easier) -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC
The codebase moved to github some time ago: https://github.com/heeks The google-code page might still have some useful stuff in the wiki: http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/ There's been some activity around FreeCAD also. It is, like heekscad, based on OpenCascade, and has python scripting/bindings: http://free-cad.sourceforge.net/ I've worked on some cutter-projection algorithms for 3D machining (opencamlib), a voronoi-diagram algorithm for 2D machining(openvoronoi), and a cutting-simulation for toolpath verification(cutsim, could/should be integrated into emc2?). All of these projects are more or less experimental (if you're talented at c++, math, geometry, computational-geometry or something similar we need your help!) Anders Hi, I was looking for the above software. The web page still exists, but I coudn't find a place from where to download. Has anybody an idea where it moved or what it happend? Actualy I'm looking for a CAM program that is free or at least afordabel, working and easy to use. Regards Peter Georgi -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, andy pugh wrote: Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:04:49 + From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing On 27 November 2011 16:56, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Clear, empty page displayed here. Strange. What does the source say. How about direct links? http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle.pdf http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle2.pdf http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle3.pdf -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. Thats neat, kind of like a toothless harmonic drive. Reminds me of a rotary-linear translator used for a diffusion furnace boat loader I designed a controller for many many years ago, it had a solid round shaft with the carriage having a triad of ball bearings rolling on the shaft, all canted at a slight angle... -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your ()_() signature to help him gain world domination. -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] PID BLDC
On 11/27/2011 9:25 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2011. gada 27. novembris 12:17 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com rakstīja: I checked all 25 leads in D525-to-7i43 cable, they all are good. The only remaining thing, where the problem can be, is the 7i43 card itself (or its drivers). I have an update: Card is receiving 4,83 V, but no LEDs turn on, when I turn on the power switch for the card. Any ideas, where should I look? 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users If I pull the 5v connector, and leave the 7i43 connected only via the EPP cable, I have only a dim yellow PWR light on the 7i43. With 5v on the plug I have a bright yellow PWR light and two RED LEDS to the right of the PWR light. This is with EMC2 not running. 4.83 is low. I usually see just above 5 volts on most power supplies that I check with a DVM. You may want to try another power supply and pray that your 7i43 switches on with a higher voltage. Peter, is chip U1, the power supply regulator chip? It is an 8 lead chip. If you can find another one, it might be user repairable if that chip is blown. But you better sharpen your soldering iron tip!Two magnifying glasses and I still can't make out the part number due to the red dot. Dave -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC
The Heeks project is officially shutting down, and they are suggesting that users move to the Freecad project. Unfortunately, Freecad does not yet have any cam support, so you can draw parts but you can't make gcode tool paths yet. - Reply message - From: Peter Georgi georg...@bluewin.ch Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 11:16 Subject: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, I was looking for the above software. The web page still exists, but I coudn't find a place from where to download. Has anybody an idea where it moved or what it happend? Actualy I'm looking for a CAM program that is free or at least afordabel, working and easy to use. Regards Peter Georgi -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC
On Sunday, November 27, 2011 02:11:03 PM s...@highlab.com did opine: The Heeks project is officially shutting down, and they are suggesting that users move to the Freecad project. Unfortunately, Freecad does not yet have any cam support, so you can draw parts but you can't make gcode tool paths yet. That sucks. HeeksCNC might be ported to Freecad? Depending in the license of course, but re-inventing wheels is a bit boring. So I head off to go see if I can build freecad, but an hour later, on pclos, no. The QT Webkit dependencies (-devel stuff) is missing from the pclos repo's so build.sh terminates: checking whether QtWebKit is available... no checking for Qt = 4.3... configure: error: Cannot find Qt meta object compiler (moc), bye... QTWebkit is installed (as libqtwebkit) but no -devel files are in the repo. Damn this sucks. However, it does appear that freecad is in far better shape than heekscad for available dox. That file alone is 26 megs in the tar.bz2 I pulled. Sigh, while I appreciate the near absolute stability of pclos, stuff like this has me burning Centos6 disks. I have a machine I call goat cuz its sacrificial, so I think its next install is on those 2 dvd's now. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene I feel partially hydrogenated! -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC
On 27 November 2011 20:12, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: That sucks. HeeksCNC might be ported to Freecad? I think it's already been done. But I can't remember who did it. -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] PID BLDC
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Dave wrote: Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:59:35 -0500 From: Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] PID BLDC On 11/27/2011 9:25 AM, Viesturs L??cis wrote: 2011. gada 27. novembris 12:17 Viesturs L??cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com rakst??ja: I checked all 25 leads in D525-to-7i43 cable, they all are good. The only remaining thing, where the problem can be, is the 7i43 card itself (or its drivers). I have an update: Card is receiving 4,83 V, but no LEDs turn on, when I turn on the power switch for the card. Any ideas, where should I look? 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users If I pull the 5v connector, and leave the 7i43 connected only via the EPP cable, I have only a dim yellow PWR light on the 7i43. With 5v on the plug I have a bright yellow PWR light and two RED LEDS to the right of the PWR light. This is with EMC2 not running. 4.83 is low. I usually see just above 5 volts on most power supplies that I check with a DVM. You may want to try another power supply and pray that your 7i43 switches on with a higher voltage. Peter, is chip U1, the power supply regulator chip? It is an 8 lead chip. If you can find another one, it might be user repairable if that chip is blown. But you better sharpen your soldering iron tip!Two magnifying glasses and I still can't make out the part number due to the red dot. Dave The 7I43 is not picky about its 5V supply, it will run at 4.5V The 3.3V regulator is a 6 pin MSOP so not good for non-expert repair Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your ()_() signature to help him gain world domination. -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC
It was Dan Falck, but i think it was just a proof-of-concept prototype, and it has not been merged yet. - Reply message - From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 13:19 Subject: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net On 27 November 2011 20:12, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: That sucks. HeeksCNC might be ported to Freecad? I think it's already been done. But I can't remember who did it. -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] web conection
Andy: Do u have your EMC2 computer connected to the web through a wireless router?? If so which one? Thanks bill -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] web conection
On 27 November 2011 22:17, Cathrine Hribar bhri...@bresnan.net wrote: Do u have your EMC2 computer connected to the web through a wireless router?? They both are. The heart of the system is a Linksys WRT 54G. That has been re-flashed with the after-market Tomato firmware, as that supports WDS. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313_nkw=wrt54g_sacat=See-All-Categories http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato The EMC2 machine in the garage connects via ethernet to an Apple Airport Express (the plug-top one) ( http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/i/z/rv/2004/10/airport-i1.gif ) and the other machine is connected via a very cheap Tenda WR311R+ http://www.amazon.com/Tenda-W311R-150Mbps-Wireless-Broadband/dp/B0041BYKRS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1322433429sr=8-1 The trick is to get a main router that supports WDS , and client routers that can connect. -- atp The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, quite simply, wrong. -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing
How about direct links? http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle.pdf http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle2.pdf http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle3.pdf All three of the links lead to blank pages. -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:23 PM, George Lawrence Storm keencoy...@earthlink.net wrote: How about direct links? http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle.pdf http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle2.pdf http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle3.pdf All three of the links lead to blank pages. For me, Using Firefox, each link resulted in a download of the specific jpg. Brian -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] web conection
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:39:46 + andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 November 2011 22:17, Cathrine Hribar bhri...@bresnan.net wrote: Do u have your EMC2 computer connected to the web through a wireless router?? They both are. The heart of the system is a Linksys WRT 54G. That has been re-flashed with the after-market Tomato firmware, as that supports WDS. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313_nkw=wrt54g_sacat=See-All-Categories http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato The EMC2 machine in the garage connects via ethernet to an Apple Airport Express (the plug-top one) ( http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/i/z/rv/2004/10/airport-i1.gif ) and the other machine is connected via a very cheap Tenda WR311R+ http://www.amazon.com/Tenda-W311R-150Mbps-Wireless-Broadband/dp/B0041BYKRS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1322433429sr=8-1 The trick is to get a main router that supports WDS , and client routers that can connect. tnx Andy for the help, i was sure u would know. bill -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:26:05 -0800, you wrote: I'd like to engrave some circuit boards, but I'll need to get or make a spindle for the project. I would like to be able to have a tool changer, but I don't recall any tool holders that are appropriate for small high speed spindles. Any suggestions? I have a rotary engraving spindle with a floating head and have made many circuit boards, after making a few I gave up milling them. I could etch 10 boards whilst you are doing one pass with one tool. Even better, I could farm them out to one of the online services - cheap and guaranteed. If it was a one off, I might mill it - but if it was simple I'd just use veroboard Steve Blackmore -- -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Engaver Tool Changing
On 11/27/2011 10:26 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 7 November 2011 04:32, Kent A. Reedknbr...@erols.com wrote: Once you've settled on an approach I hope you'll provide pictures for the rest of us to ooh and aah over :-) I have been thinking about this, and settled down to design a purely mechanical High-Speed spindle for my milling machine. It has a BT30 spindle and, like many oldr machines, a range of speeds, all of which are slow. In this case the are speeds from 46 to 1200 rpm. http://www.bodgesoc.org/HS_Spindle.html It looks a bit of a mess in HTML, but if you download the PDFs and view them in Adobe Reader they look a lot better, and you can pan/tilt/rotate, change to wireframe etc. ... Thanks, Andy, and best of luck realizing your design. The challenges it presents are beyond my present abilities. As for various people reporting they could not open your web pages, I wish such reports would include names/versions of the software involved so we could get an idea what happened. I would guess those having troubles don't have the Adobe Reader plugin installed in their browser, although they should have seen the usual Missing Plug-in message. (Sidebar - It would be nice if browsers were more forthcoming about the incoming data that is giving them heartburn.) I was able to browse your html page with its embedded 3D PDF using Google Chrome 15.0.874.121 m, Apple Safari 5.1.1, Firefox 5.0 and above, Opera 11.52, and, in the interest of fairness, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702, all running on an ancient MS Windows XP system with Adobe Reader 10.1.1 installed. On Ubuntu 10.04LTS, I was successful with Mozilla Firefox 3.6.24 and Opera 11.52 once I installed Adobe Reader 9.4.6. I couldn't make a go of it with Chromium 15.0.874.106 (yes, Missing Plug-in), but only because I couldn't sort out how to get Chromium to recognize the Adobe Reader plugin. Maybe when I'm fresh tomorrow. Regards, Kent -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC
ah, this is bad news. I needed the 3D and CAM functions. I am just now getting around in Heekscnc well enough to do what I need to do. Really a shame to get Heekscnc this far and let it fall off the map. I am just a modeler in my garage and after looking at all the 3D CAM offerings on the Wiki list, Heekscnc was the easiest for ME to understand though after watching every YouTube vid and any and all help I could find I just wish there was more users to toss issues around with to learn more. For a hobbiest like me, spending hundreds or even thousands on CAM software isn't going to happen so I of course really appreciated the Open Source price point of free. Many thanks to Dan Heeks for getting it this far and I plan on still using it as is for now. regards Dan On 11/27/2011 11:05 AM, s...@highlab.com wrote: The Heeks project is officially shutting down, and they are suggesting that users move to the Freecad project. Unfortunately, Freecad does not yet have any cam support, so you can draw parts but you can't make gcode tool paths yet. - Reply message - From: Peter Georgigeorg...@bluewin.ch Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 11:16 Subject: [Emc-users] HeeksCAD and HeeksCNC To:emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, I was looking for the above software. The web page still exists, but I coudn't find a place from where to download. Has anybody an idea where it moved or what it happend? Actualy I'm looking for a CAM program that is free or at least afordabel, working and easy to use. Regards Peter Georgi -- 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
