Re: [Emc-developers] using ats 667's to generate z pulses.

2021-04-16 Thread Jon Elson
On 04/16/2021 12:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I am still looking for a little help in rigid tapping. Since the GO704 can only muster around 2 hp in its current drive configuration, its often that I have to write a peck routine where each peck goes just a fraction of a turn farther

Re: [Emc-developers] Indentation of subsections in the HTML man pages

2021-04-16 Thread John
For me 3 has way too much indent, a couple of spaces is enough to get the message across. JT On 4/16/21 12:17 PM, Hans Unzner wrote: Unfortunately the subsections (.SS) of the man pages are not treated as such when convertet to HTML. Just bold text. Especially the halui man page lacks

Re: [Emc-developers] Indentation of subsections in the HTML man pages

2021-04-16 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 18:18, Hans Unzner wrote: > What version would you prefer? 3 looked too different at first, but it is growing on me, What does the Hostmot2 manpage look like run through your system? -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for

Re: [Emc-developers] Indentation of subsections in the HTML man pages

2021-04-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 April 2021 13:17:52 Hans Unzner wrote: > Unfortunately the subsections (.SS) of the man pages are not treated > as such when convertet to HTML. Just bold text. > Especially the halui man page lacks clarity because of that. > > I created a little macro that handles the subsections. >

[Emc-developers] using ats 667's to generate z pulses.

2021-04-16 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I am still looking for a little help in rigid tapping. Since the GO704 can only muster around 2 hp in its current drive configuration, its often that I have to write a peck routine where each peck goes just a fraction of a turn farther until the tap is deep enough. But

[Emc-developers] Indentation of subsections in the HTML man pages

2021-04-16 Thread Hans Unzner
Unfortunately the subsections (.SS) of the man pages are not treated as such when convertet to HTML. Just bold text. Especially the halui man page lacks clarity because of that. I created a little macro that handles the subsections. What version would you prefer? 1. Indent the text of the

Re: [Emc-developers] Distance-coded scales.

2021-04-16 Thread Thomas J Powderly
For people not familiar with this linear scale 'trick' https://resources.renishaw.com/download.aspx?lang=en=49228=1 My old company used Heidenhain LSNNNc scales because the 2 to 5 meter travelss with top speeds of 1 meter per minute made homing tedious. I remember the marks were every cm so

Re: [Emc-developers] Distance-coded scales.

2021-04-16 Thread Dmitry Yurtaev
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 3:37 PM andy pugh wrote: > I am not sure that you can guarantee that the ini.X.home_offset pin is > read at the right time. > > My suspicion (without looking very hard) is that the ini pins are > polled in user-space and the homing code runs in realtime. you're right...

Re: [Emc-developers] Distance-coded scales.

2021-04-16 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 13:23, Dmitry Yurtaev wrote: > i think it can be done without any mods to the linuxcnc by a wrapper > component for hm2.encoder, HOME_USE_INDEX and using the > ini.X.home_offset pin to set the abs position. I am not sure that you can guarantee that the ini.X.home_offset

Re: [Emc-developers] Distance-coded scales.

2021-04-16 Thread Dmitry Yurtaev
i think it can be done without any mods to the linuxcnc by a wrapper component for hm2.encoder, HOME_USE_INDEX and using the ini.X.home_offset pin to set the abs position. 1. wait joint.X.index-enable -> set encoder.latch-enable 2. wait for encoder.latch-enable to reset (on 1st index mark) ->

[Emc-developers] Distance-coded scales.

2021-04-16 Thread andy pugh
I am intrigued by the puzzle of how to support distance-coded scales in LinuxCNC. https://forum.linuxcnc.org/12-milling/42195-retrofitting-mikron-wf41c?start=10#205856 Support for the basic protocol can be handled either by a HAL component, or by tweaks to the encoder drivers. Either can supply