[Emc-developers] I will pay someone to help me setup my CNC lathe to LinuxCNC

2013-11-27 Thread Michael Chism
Hello, I am retrofitting 2 CHNC lathes, I would like to try out linuxcnc for the operating system. I am throwing out a request for someone to help me set up the machine, I will pay them for their expertise. I am familiar with mach 3, but not with linux cnc. I am sure I can figure out how to run

Re: [Emc-developers] Add current mode output pin to Axis?

2013-11-27 Thread Dewey Garrett
One still ends up with halui and Axis getting out of sync. works for me: http://youtu.be/O9qL5lZ1tug did you try the patch? -- Dewey Garrett -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most

Re: [Emc-developers] I will pay someone to help me setup my CNC latheto LinuxCNC

2013-11-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
Where are you located? Not experts but we have done two lathes and the third is in process. Jeff L Johnson Superior Roll Turning Superiorroll.com 734-279-1831 Fax 279-1166 -Original Message- From: Michael Chism [mailto:mikechismavion...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Re: [Emc-developers] I will pay someone to help me setup my CNC lathe to LinuxCNC

2013-11-27 Thread andy pugh
On 27 November 2013 16:21, Michael Chism mikechismavion...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I am retrofitting 2 CHNC lathes, I would like to try out linuxcnc for the operating system. I am throwing out a request for someone to help me set up the machine There are at least 3 CHNC lathes running

Re: [Emc-developers] Add current mode output pin to Axis?

2013-11-27 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com Let me see if i understand your situation. Your setup is this: You're using Axis as your GUI, and you're using a jog pendant. The pendant uses halui to jog the machine, and can trigger MDI commands for things like Z touch-off. Sometimes when you

Re: [Emc-developers] Add current mode output pin to Axis?

2013-11-27 Thread Russell Brown
Quoth Dewey Garrett dgarr...@panix.com One still ends up with halui and Axis getting out of sync. works for me: http://youtu.be/O9qL5lZ1tug No Youtube in the office :-( For some time it's been saying 'An error occured, please try later' and I just CBA to work out why ;-) did you try the

Re: [Emc-developers] I will pay someone to help me setup my CNC lathe to LinuxCNC

2013-11-27 Thread Robert - Innovative-RC
as Andy said , should be alot of info on forum, this is a CHNC not a NC like some people call it. not sure what version of the CHNC it is. or what drives you have, mine was the older chnc 1 with old Simens 810T, simens DC Drives fanuc Spindle drive spindle is easy to find the info on giving you

Re: [Emc-developers] Initial tests of circular arc blending

2013-11-27 Thread Robert Ellenberg
Some good news on the feed override front: the latest changes allow feed overrides greater than 100% without having to sacrifice performance at 100%. It's a simple trick: 1. Scale the requested velocity up by the max feed override to calculate the blend arc radius (store this as the maxvel)

Re: [Emc-developers] How to contribute to LinuxCNC

2013-11-27 Thread John Morris
Here's a late but well-deserved +1. Thanks, Seb! John On 11/16/2013 05:16 PM, John Thornton wrote: Very nice addition to the Docs Seb! Thanks JT On 11/16/2013 9:50 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Hello LinuxCNC developers! There was some concern at Wichita that the process