Re: [Emc-developers] gladevcp/Touchy patch (Chris Morley)

2010-10-12 Thread Jon Elson
Chris Radek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:45:49AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > > >> Yeah, I put in my two cents for a version of Touchy with the Axis >> preview, and was voted down, >> at the CNC Workshop. >> > > I don't remember any kind of argument or especially vote about this - >

Re: [Emc-developers] gladevcp/Touchy patch (Chris Morley)

2010-10-12 Thread chrisinnanaimo
what about Jeff's gremblin project? Didn't it run side by side Axis ? Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: Chris Radek Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:02:05 To: EMC developers Reply-To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] gladevcp/

Re: [Emc-developers] gladevcp/Touchy patch (Chris Morley)

2010-10-12 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:45:49AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > Yeah, I put in my two cents for a version of Touchy with the Axis > preview, and was voted down, > at the CNC Workshop. I don't remember any kind of argument or especially vote about this - sometimes I'd like to have it, sometimes no

Re: [Emc-developers] gladevcp/Touchy patch (Chris Morley)

2010-10-12 Thread Jon Elson
Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Chris Morly wrote: > > BTW while testing all this I gotta say Touchy is nicely intuitive. > Add a preview tab then its an alternative to AXIS even with out > a touch screen. > > I guess as an operator/programmer for production work I don't see > much need

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC limits .. and a suggestion ...

2010-10-12 Thread Jon Elson
Chris Radek wrote: > we also use @ and ^ as "letters" for the polar coordinates words > (@radius ^angle). So not only are we out of letters, we're nearly > out of ascii. > Not hardly! We have | (vertical bar), \ ~ ` $ % (hmm, maybe that still has special meaning from back in the EIA/ASCII day

Re: [Emc-developers] Emc-developers Digest, Vol 54, Issue 4

2010-10-12 Thread Lars Segerlund
Hi, and thanks. Im curently hocking up a small mill and lathe so I am kind of busy with that right now. Also setting up a build environement and installing from scratch :) ... But I think I will try your gschem stuff, and try to get it running. I have some time commuting to and from work ... I a

Re: [Emc-developers] Emc-developers Digest, Vol 54, Issue 4

2010-10-12 Thread Thomas Powderly
re: gEDA2Hal Lars I wrote that gEDA page and got some of the gEDA to Hal to work Follow the notes on the page & ask away I got busy ( got some work) and have not finished it but 'micges' used another way to get same result, he used 'eagle' pcb suite. There is a catch tho, 'eagle' is closed source w

Re: [Emc-developers] gladevcp/Touchy patch (Chris Morley)

2010-10-12 Thread Stuart Stevenson
yes this is true they would have to re edit their glade file. > mostly cut and paste. > I don't really see a large burden with that. We try not to do > major changes between major releases. > besides that would be a choice the user makes. Edit the glade > file means you must maintain it after

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC limits .. and a suggestion ...

2010-10-12 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:18:48PM +0100, Andy Pugh wrote: > > It is a limit of 9, and really is inherent to G-code, which has A, B, > C, U, V, W, X, Y, Z as command words to move an axis. There are not > many (if any) letters of the alphabet unused, and the fact that G-code > ignores spaces means

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC limits .. and a suggestion ...

2010-10-12 Thread Lars Segerlund
Thanks, Then it's not a problem, I just wanted to make sure it was not joints. / regards, Lars Segerlund. 2010/10/12 Andy Pugh : > On 12 October 2010 13:36, Lars Segerlund wrote: > >>  I saw in some old mails some limit of 8 axes in EMC, what exactly >> does this refer to ? > > It is a limit

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC limits .. and a suggestion ...

2010-10-12 Thread Andy Pugh
On 12 October 2010 13:36, Lars Segerlund wrote: >  I saw in some old mails some limit of 8 axes in EMC, what exactly > does this refer to ? It is a limit of 9, and really is inherent to G-code, which has A, B, C, U, V, W, X, Y, Z as command words to move an axis. There are not many (if any) lett

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC limits .. and a suggestion ...

2010-10-12 Thread Lars Segerlund
I don't know wether to laugh or cry :-/ ... but must admit that I should googled it beforehand, forgive a newcomer to EMC ... / regards, Lars 2010/10/12 Alex Joni : > > > > >> Hello, >> >> I saw in some old mails some limit of 8 axes in EMC, what exactly >> does this refer to ? > > The limit i

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC limits .. and a suggestion ...

2010-10-12 Thread Alex Joni
> Hello, > > I saw in some old mails some limit of 8 axes in EMC, what exactly > does this refer to ? The limit is for 9 axes: XYZABCUVW You can have more joints, but currently the code that allows that sits in a branch, which is not quite done yet: joints_axes3. > Is it coordinate axes such

[Emc-developers] EMC limits .. and a suggestion ...

2010-10-12 Thread Lars Segerlund
Hello, I saw in some old mails some limit of 8 axes in EMC, what exactly does this refer to ? Is it coordinate axes such as X,Y,Z or does it refer to something else such as degrees of freedom or actuators ( servos od. ). I am sorry if it'a a stupid question but the more I think about it the h