Re: [Emc-developers] Hostmot2 ethernet support now in master branch (was Re: feedback on jepler/hm2-eth-v2)

2014-08-06 Thread sam sokolik
This is master running on debian wheezy and rt_preemt. It has been up for 9 days so far. It is running the splash screen in an infinite loop. The stepgens in the 7i80 are in velocity mode and running with pid. http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/weekplus.png sam On 7/26/2014 11:18

Re: [Emc-developers] Jeff's wheezy live cd

2014-08-05 Thread sam sokolik
Can you explain the steps that brought you to needing those 2 files? (I have been running the new livecd for the past couple weeks with both the 7i80, 5i20 and rtai/rt-preempt with no issues.) sam On 8/5/2014 8:17 AM, David Armstrong wrote: > Then why did i have to install the 2 files reference

[Emc-developers] Mach4 is for sale!

2014-08-01 Thread sam sokolik
If anyone is interested... https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mach1mach2cnc/conversations/messages/145043 http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,27747.0.html http://www.machsupport.com/software/mach4/ sam --

Re: [Emc-developers] Mach4 is for sale!

2014-08-01 Thread sam sokolik
Sorry - this was supposed to be on the users list. sam On 8/1/2014 10:22 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > If anyone is interested... > > https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mach1mach2cnc/conversations/messages/145043 > > http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,27747.

Re: [Emc-developers] Help me understand Ethernet motion control

2014-07-28 Thread sam sokolik
I will take a stab... The short answer is linuxcnc Ethernet motion is no different than any of the other interface card solution.. The longer (as I understand it) answer is... Remember that linuxcnc doesn't use motion devices like smoothstepper or galil. (these are buffering devices that move

Re: [Emc-developers] "jepler/rtos-uspace": a new POSIX realtime branch

2014-07-18 Thread sam sokolik
I have been testing the Ethernet branch. (mesa 7i80) no issues what so ever. Some of the hardware I have been testing is the GIGABYTE GA-J1800N-D2H rt-preempt latency 36us http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/j1800.png GIGABYTE GA-J1900N-D3V rt-preempt latency 66us http://electroni

Re: [Emc-developers] "jepler/rtos-uspace": a new POSIX realtime branch

2014-07-06 Thread sam sokolik
What is cool is I found the rt-preempt kernel from the synaptic package manager - installed it - built linuxcnc to use it. it just worked. (this was on wheezy) (I was testing the 7i80 ethernet device) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/ethlatestbuild.png sam On 07/06/2014 08:58 A

Re: [Emc-developers] Comp

2014-06-24 Thread sam sokolik
plus there is a hal component named comp... comp − Two input comparator with hysteresis sam On 6/24/2014 10:06 AM, Chris Radek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 02:46:50PM +0100, andy pugh wrote: > >> "The program 'comp' can be found in the following packages >> mailutils-mh nmh" in the obvious w

Re: [Emc-developers] TP issue with exact stop and slow machine acceleration

2014-06-23 Thread sam sokolik
wow - The little bit of playing seems to fixed the bugs (g0 exact stop, skipping collinear segments).. Also - g61 and g61.1 are different. (exact path vs exact stop) very very cool. Nice work!! So - to explain further - G61 vs G61.1 from the manual.. The original planner ran G61 and g61.1 ex

[Emc-developers] New trajectory planner in master - found a new bug.

2014-06-17 Thread sam sokolik
Actually - someone posted some gcode related to the discriminant error (which I cannot reproduce...) G61 G1 X -850 F6000 G0 X -325 ; bug appears here G1 X -275 F300 G0 X -52 G1 X -2 F300 M2 Now - it seems like the new TP combines all collinear segments into 1 regardless of the feed.. so - thi

Re: [Emc-developers] Error compiling latest master

2014-06-16 Thread sam sokolik
Try a 'make clean' first. sam On 06/16/2014 03:04 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > I just did a pull and got an error on compile > > "cannot stat emc/kinematics/tc.h : no such file or directory" > > Any suggestions please > --

Re: [Emc-developers] Threading issue with new TP

2014-06-11 Thread sam sokolik
I just pushed a small fix to the circular-blend-arc-rc4 branch. It seems to > work in simulation for a G33 move (position sync). > > -Rob > > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:41 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > >> Great! >> >> Running the current TP on the K&T with it

Re: [Emc-developers] Threading issue with new TP

2014-06-09 Thread sam sokolik
ure that if > we're doing synced motion, to ignore the F-word). I'll poke around in the > morning and see it I can fix it. > > -Rob > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 11:52 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > >> Here is a cell phone picture of the new TP cutting jmk's

Re: [Emc-developers] Threading issue with new TP

2014-06-08 Thread sam sokolik
as it need to go faster for the pitch..) A good test though - I think there my need to be more to make sure nothing was missed... http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/IMG_20140608_174826_229.jpg sam On 06/08/2014 06:12 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > Found a small bug with the new TP and t

[Emc-developers] Threading issue with new TP

2014-06-08 Thread sam sokolik
Found a small bug with the new TP and threading... The threading move is capped by the current F word. (if you have the F word set to 6ipm - and the threading motion need to go faster - the feed is capped at 6ipm) Other than that... We ran the new TP on the K&T this weekend.. It is quite imp

Re: [Emc-developers] bug with nurbs ?

2014-05-30 Thread Sam Sokolik
I am seeing the same path here on circular arc blending... it isn't like a tolerance thing (normally it would cut the corner short.) Seems like a bug bruno wrote: >I tried reducing the G64 values, I also set G61. >I also tried running it at very slow feed rate. I increased the maximum >veloc

Re: [Emc-developers] bug with nurbs ?

2014-05-30 Thread sam sokolik
could you pastebin the program? running through the list really hacked up the gcode... sam On 05/30/2014 10:29 AM, bruno wrote: > ;; > ; > # = 5 > > ( some init ) > G21 (Unit in mm) > G90 (Absolute distance mode) > G64 P0.01 (Exact Path 0.001 tol.) > G17 > G40 (Cancel diamete

Re: [Emc-developers] New Tajectory Planner

2014-05-29 Thread sam sokolik
Look - actual hardware... http://youtu.be/HPzow8L1dxw I think it would run a bit faster... But I my be a bit chicken... the same-ish section running with the current TP (peaks at about 70ipm vs the machine limit of 200ipm) http://youtu.be/djlUG3ZF_tE sam On 05/29/2014 01:35 PM, Chris Radek w

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-18 Thread sam sokolik
= 2.01 tmax = 0.295682 helical_length = 9.750718 Don't know if that helps. sam On 04/18/2014 05:14 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > I am using these settings > ARC_BLEND_ENABLE = 1 > ARC_BLEND_FALLBACK_ENABLE = 0 > ARC_BLEND_OPTIMIZATION_DEPTH = 50 > ARC_BLEND_GAP_CYCLES = 4 > A

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-18 Thread sam sokolik
I am using these settings ARC_BLEND_ENABLE = 1 ARC_BLEND_FALLBACK_ENABLE = 0 ARC_BLEND_OPTIMIZATION_DEPTH = 50 ARC_BLEND_GAP_CYCLES = 4 ARC_BLEND_RAMP_FREQ = 20 So - do you want the good news or the bad news? The good news is that tort.ngc runs though without any velocity violations.. The bad n

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-15 Thread sam sokolik
running master as of a week or so ago - doesn't seem to show the same issue (it does have the known acc constraint issue) http://imagebin.org/305773 sam On 4/15/2014 12:02 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > That's a possibility, I just did a quick diff of 2.5 and master and don't > see any changes

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-15 Thread sam sokolik
this is what I am using http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/tort.ngc it is the normal tort with the feedrates set very high. Yes - getting closer and closer! Don't feel rushed - school comes first :) (we have gotten by this long :) ) sam On 04/15/2014 08:16 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrot

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-15 Thread sam sokolik
/2014 06:07 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > and yay! (no constraint violations) > > http://imagebin.org/305747 > > sam > > On 04/15/2014 05:30 AM, sam sokolik wrote: >> wow. Nice catch. >> >> sam? >> Yes? >> Does it happen if the program isn&#x

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-15 Thread sam sokolik
and yay! (no constraint violations) http://imagebin.org/305747 sam On 04/15/2014 05:30 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > wow. Nice catch. > > sam? > Yes? > Does it happen if the program isn't rotated? > Well I don't know.. > > Sorry - basic troubleshooting 101.. I fig

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-15 Thread sam sokolik
ting the axis length. Now we should > be able to set an arbitrary XY rotation, and still satisfy velocity limits. > I ran through LHchips4.ngc at 0 deg. and 45 deg. with no violations (in > simulation), so I'm hopeful that's the fix. > > -Rob > > > On Mon, Apr 1

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
the lone 'K[#*5.0]' should be on the previous line... sam On 04/14/2014 10:04 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > ok - it is better. it seems though if one of the velocities is lower - > there is a velocity constraint violation > > Here I am running my terco config (x and y 132ipm 20

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
[#*-13.189] J[#*0.0] K[#*5.0] G0Z[#*5.0] g10l2p1r90 m30 again - so close thanks for all your hard work! sam On 04/14/2014 02:19 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > this is when it finished.. > http://imagebin.org/305525 > > (z velocity is peaking at 74ipm - set for 60ipm) > On 04/14/201

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
this is when it finished.. http://imagebin.org/305525 (z velocity is peaking at 74ipm - set for 60ipm) On 04/14/2014 02:09 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > when I ran the config that had all the axis constraints the same (132ipm > and 30in/s^2) it ran though just fine. When I ran the confi

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
Close!! sam On 04/14/2014 01:41 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > I just updated the circular-blend-arc-rc3 branch with a quick fix for the > velocity constraint violation, so hopefully it should fix that little > hiccup as well. > > -Rob > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
root cause may be a divide by almost > zero error. I added some additional calculations to get higher MA I'll > velocities, and I think that was the source of this new issue, and possibly > the RT hangups that Mark was seeing. I'll push a fix today as soon as I'm > sure.

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-14 Thread sam sokolik
60ipm 30in/s^2 violation 78ipm peak Z it then is worse when the acc/vel are not equal. I have seen the z limit of 60ipm go as high as 121ipm (x and y 132ipm 20in/s^2, z 60ipm 15in/s^2) sam On 04/11/2014 08:27 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > well - it seems to go a bit over when they are all eq

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-11 Thread sam sokolik
Hmm, I'll take a closer look at this over the weekend. I suspect this issue > is due to one of the recent fixes. Do you still see violations if the Z > axis limit is the same as X and Y? > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:57 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > >> Ok - I found another

Re: [Emc-developers] sim gotchas in sim/axis/lathe

2014-04-10 Thread sam sokolik
you could do something as simple as G20 F15 G21 On 04/10/2014 08:03 PM, Eric Keller wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> I don't think it was quite all that encompassing before, Andy, and you are >> by pure common sense correct. So if I run in metric mode, I'll hav

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-10 Thread sam sokolik
ixed (I moved the vLimit check to always be called in the function that > calculates target velocity). > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:27 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > >> inital testing now the feed override acts as expected. (This is going >> from 100% to 90%) >> >>

Re: [Emc-developers] Announcing the LinuxCNC 2.6 branch

2014-04-02 Thread sam sokolik
Just because it didn't make it into 2.6 doesn't mean it isn't going to happen. This isn't the end of the world. Have you seen the todo list? There have been a few calls for help http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Todo-2.6 As far as rt_preempt - I have tested it using the unified bu

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-02 Thread sam sokolik
s work going to be incorporated >>> somewhere in the near future or will we have to wait until Robert has >>> done more to it? >> I'm not sure exactly what state it's in currently. After i make the 2.6 >> branch I hope to speak with Sam Sokolik and Robert Ellenberg a

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-04-01 Thread sam sokolik
ing to be incorporated >> somewhere in the near future or will we have to wait until Robert has >> done more to it? > I'm not sure exactly what state it's in currently. After i make the 2.6 > branch I hope to speak with Sam Sokolik and Robert Ellenberg and see > where th

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-28 Thread sam sokolik
aused the velocity to be set to zero. I added a default > value here that seems to fix that test. Also, I think the ripple issue is > fixed (I moved the vLimit check to always be called in the function that > calculates target velocity). > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:27 AM, sam sokolik wr

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-28 Thread sam sokolik
adaptive-feed seems to work as expected.. This is setting it from 1 to .5 http://imagebin.org/302346 sam On 3/28/2014 5:42 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 28 March 2014 02:57, sam sokolik wrote: >> I did a quick test - Doesn't run full speed now. There are some spikes >> (if

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-28 Thread sam sokolik
city was > calculated though, so let me know if you see any unexpected changes. > > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:57 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > >> I did a quick test - Doesn't run full speed now. There are some spikes >> (if I have the MV slider set to 20ipm -

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-27 Thread sam sokolik
Ellenberg wrote: > Good catch! It wasn't checking the slider max velocity (tp.vLimit) when > doing ramped velocity, so those sections ran at full speed. The latest push > to the RC3 branch should fix that. > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:59 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > >> here

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-27 Thread sam sokolik
the RC3 branch should fix that. > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:59 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > >> here is a video showing the jumping of the velocity. (we cobbled >> together an old terco trainer to play with) >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mz7tzVSsYk&fea

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-27 Thread sam sokolik
take off and goes at a much higher feedrate.. > > sam > > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:03:50 -0500 > sam sokolik wrote: >> here is 50% (1750mm/min) >> >> http://imagebin.org/301967 >> >> sam >> >> >> On 03/26/2014 02:49 PM, Rober

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-26 Thread sam sokolik
* 0.1 in) ~= 1.73 in/sec (about 7% >>> difference). >>> >>> I just hard-coded this because it seemed to give me the best speed on my >>> test runs. Maybe it could be an INI parameter? You could potentially get >> a >>> little performance from a program

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-26 Thread sam sokolik
am with lots of circular arcs by reducing > the tangential acceleration in favor of normal acceleration. Conversely, > making tangential and normal acceleration both sqrt(2) * a_max might move > more quickly in programs with a lot of detail like stellabee1.ngc. > > -Rob > > On Mon,

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-24 Thread sam sokolik
I have a question about the acceleration limits. (and I might be nit-picking here) But I have been goofing around with the trochoidal.ngc file from http://www.vagrearg.org/gcmc/trochoidal.ngc.gz I see when I push the velocity up to 3500mm/min - the peak velocity starts to dip (this is with 3

Re: [Emc-developers] New Trajectory Planner

2014-03-21 Thread sam sokolik
I hope you can get credit somehow for the work you have done on linuxcnc! Let us know if you need anything. sam On 03/21/2014 08:44 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 3/21/2014 2:14 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: >>> Unfortunately, my schedule is filling fast as I wrap up grad school, so it >>> will be at l

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-18 Thread sam sokolik
well - I cannot get it to do it on a different reatime build.. So maybe it is something odd with that setup... I will keep playing with it., sam // On 3/17/2014 9:03 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > rob - I am seeing something odd with the realtime builds. Could there > be a difference? I cann

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-17 Thread sam sokolik
rob - I am seeing something odd with the realtime builds. Could there be a difference? I cannot get the sim on the laptop to act the same. If x and y velocitys are set to 2.33ips - and z is set to .833 - there is a section of steve.ngc (about 1/3 of the way in) that runs slower - like 120ip

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-16 Thread sam sokolik
140ipm) >>>> >>>> The current TP actually does better trying to get at the 140ipm - just >> a >>>> lot more jerky as it slows down for the blends.. >>>> >>>> it runs it quite a bit faster.. 18 vs 24sec >>>> http://imagebi

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-15 Thread sam sokolik
org/299492 >>>> >>>> Even if I have no z moves in the profile - it still runs mostly at >> 50ipm >>>> If I set the z axis so it is the same velocity - then it works as >>>> expected. (runs the profile at 140ipm) >>>> >>>> The

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-12 Thread sam sokolik
; > http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/dists/lucid/scratch-rt/ > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:50 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > >> Ok - I was just going to point someone to the Debs - but they don't seem >> to be there... (and I don't understand how to find out why ;)

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-11 Thread sam sokolik
inuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/10-advanced-configuration/27368-new-trajectory-planner-testersprograms-wanted?start=120#44419 > http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/10-advanced-configuration/27368-new-trajectory-planner-testersprograms-wanted?start=130#44474 > > > > On Wed

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-11 Thread sam sokolik
ed when I find the issue. >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:15 PM, wrote: >> >>> Have to add... It still keeps the velocity up and steadier than the >>> current tp. Again - awesome work! >>> >>> >>> On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 20:28

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-08 Thread sam sokolik
ran the experimental3 branch on real hardware tonight. The LHchips4 sounded real good. Now it peaks across the belly at close to the y axis velocity. Very nice! Now running steve.ngc you can really see the arc issue. X is MAX_VELOCITY = 2.33 MAX_ACCELERATION = 10

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-08 Thread sam sokolik
makes sense. large arcs or full circles running the same speed probably isn't a big deal. arcspiral and spiral running the same would probably be better (speeding up short arc segment with different axis velocites) if possible. (short arc style gcode) I might be able to run the latest exper

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-07 Thread sam sokolik
engraving to run on the fastest axis. But if your cam software outputs fitted arcs - the segments will be capped by the slowest axis. (does this makes sense?) as always - awesome work! sam On 03/07/2014 03:55 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, sam sokolik wrote: >

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-06 Thread sam sokolik
t; On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:42 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > >> Ok - I finally got a chance to test some more real hardware. This is a >> bastard router that has 3 different steppers/drive (it was a converted >> step/repeat machine.) I built robs latest (RC3) from the linuxcnc git

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-05 Thread sam sokolik
Ok - I finally got a chance to test some more real hardware. This is a bastard router that has 3 different steppers/drive (it was a converted step/repeat machine.) I built robs latest (RC3) from the linuxcnc git and ran some of the test programs. some good news one bad. Good news. The motio

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-28 Thread sam sokolik
finally got around to making a 4 axis constraints config. So far so good! (If I understand it - >3 axis falls back to parabolic blends..) http://imagebin.org/296431 sam On 02/20/2014 10:09 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > It's based on the master branch from a few months ago. I'm working on > bac

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-20 Thread sam sokolik
If I understand it right - it is master. sam On 2/20/2014 8:32 AM, EBo wrote: > So is this on 2.5_branch, 2.6, or the master? > > On Feb 20 2014 7:29 AM, sam sokolik wrote: >> The realtime now builds. Yay! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 2/19/201

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-20 Thread sam sokolik
onto v2.5_branch so that it can be > merged into future releases. I had some issues building v2.5_branch > ('failed to remake Makefile'), but if I can get it built, it shouldn't be > much work to get it running. > > -Rob > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:41 AM, s

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-19 Thread sam sokolik
I get 2 'aborting after length change!' on tort.ngc. I was wondering why it runs almost all paraboc blends until it dawned on me that none of the arc-arc, arc-line segments are coplanar.. :) The tool path and actual path do line up now. Yay! sam On 2/19/2014 7:07 AM, sam sokolik

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-19 Thread sam sokolik
too, recently. That means I used fmin somewhere outside of >> tp.c. This makes me wish that rtapi_math had fmin and fmax, since I use it >> so often anyway. >> On Feb 18, 2014 2:11 PM, "sam sokolik" wrote: >> >>> I just tried to do a realtime build.. I

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-19 Thread sam sokolik
e outside of >> tp.c. This makes me wish that rtapi_math had fmin and fmax, since I use it >> so often anyway. >> On Feb 18, 2014 2:11 PM, "sam sokolik" wrote: >> >>> I just tried to do a realtime build.. I get these errors >>> >>> 1. &

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-18 Thread sam sokolik
Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > >> I got that too, recently. That means I used fmin somewhere outside of >> tp.c. This makes me wish that rtapi_math had fmin and fmax, since I use it >> so often anyway. >> On Feb 18, 2014 2:11 PM, "sam sokolik"

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-18 Thread sam sokolik
I just tried to do a realtime build.. I get these errors 1. /home/samco/linuxcnc-arc-case/src/emc/tp/tc.c: In function 'tcFindBlendTolerance': 2. /home/samco/linuxcnc-arc-case/src/emc/tp/tc.c:391: error: implicit declaration of function 'fmin' 3. make[2]: *** [/home/samco/l

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-18 Thread sam sokolik
The lhchips3.ngc is a good file for testing.. If you run it strait G64 (touch every segment) it fails constraints a hand full of times. (darn impressive.) I can give you exact examples if you would like? The big thing is - I don't think it is following the preview path. I mentioned it on t

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-16 Thread sam sokolik
another issue. Running tort.ngc - I get this output. 'aborting after length change!' 8 times. it doesn't follow that preview at some point also. http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/Screenshot%20from%202014-02-16%2011:50:16.png sam On 02/15/2014 06:10 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: >

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-16 Thread sam sokolik
I did some testing with robs experimental branch (before the arc blending) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/DSC_1412.JPG Threading works! sam On 02/15/2014 10:08 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > wow - can I say wow again? I have your first constraint violation. (it > was the only

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-15 Thread sam sokolik
wow - can I say wow again? I have your first constraint violation. (it was the only one in the whole program) http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/LHchips3.ngc is the whole program. I paired it down to. First the coolness. Master http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/master1L

Re: [Emc-developers] (Circular Arc Blending) Experimental support for intersections other than line-line

2014-02-15 Thread Sam Sokolik
Wow!! great work! I can't wait to test it. On a related note. Ran one of the emco laths (gasp! Actual hardware!). No issues - threaded and every thing. (Have a video) Sam Robert Ellenberg wrote: >Hi All, > >I've been working on adding support for line-arc and arc-arc intersections >to the

Re: [Emc-developers] Proper behavior when blending rapid / feed moves

2014-02-13 Thread sam sokolik
actually - it looks like the last part of the arc is also de-accelerating at a lower rate. Is this part of the problem where you don't know if that is the end of the program? sam On 2/13/2014 9:02 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > cool. 'Flexable' > >I have a ques

Re: [Emc-developers] Proper behavior when blending rapid / feed moves

2014-02-13 Thread sam sokolik
ad out is using 1/2 (maybe) thanks sam On 2/13/2014 8:43 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > I can add an INI setting fairly easily, and default to not allowing blends > between rapids and feed moves. > On Feb 13, 2014 9:20 AM, "sam sokolik" wrote: > >> How hard would that

Re: [Emc-developers] Proper behavior when blending rapid / feed moves

2014-02-13 Thread sam sokolik
How hard would that be to make an INI setting? I can't think of an application (maybe something that is positioning...) that might want blended moves between rapid and feed moves.. sam On 2/6/2014 7:25 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:13 AM, EBo wrote: > >> On Feb 6 2014

Re: [Emc-developers] HEADS UP: RT-preempt and network I/O/system calls from RTthreads probably not viable

2014-01-30 Thread sam sokolik
I have been helping test the mesa 7i80 (ethernet). I started with the RTnet setup but what a pain. Supported nics are very limited. When micges switched to rt_preempt there was a watchdog bug that bit the 7i80 (pun intended..) but through all the testing I don't think I once got a realtime d

Re: [Emc-developers] reports on rt-preempt / latency-test: max jitter going down - FIXED

2014-01-26 Thread sam sokolik
cool - thanks for finding that. Sorry I could not test - nothing setup here - but I can test the fix monday. sam On 01/26/2014 02:07 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > I have a fix which works for me: > https://github.com/mhaberler/linuxcnc/commit/10924b5509a2d2e38533a9f9e876d139a2cf5d4b > (branch

Re: [Emc-developers] Beta release of circular arc blending

2014-01-09 Thread sam sokolik
Ok - todd on the forum seems to have found an ussue with W http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/10-advanced-configuration/27368-new-trajectory-planner-testersprograms-wanted#42547 He has some picuteres showing that the W axis seems to be overshooting. sam On 1/8/2014 4:39 PM, Robert

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

2014-01-08 Thread sam sokolik
. Thanks again I will be playing with this some more. On 1/7/2014 9:16 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > I posted on cnczone and linuxcnc for testing.. Hopefully some of the > more adventurous users will give it a try > > http://www.cnczone.com/forums/linuxcnc_formerly_emc2/206712-new_traject

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

2014-01-07 Thread sam sokolik
the > requested velocity, or if the velocity "bump" is less than some amount. > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:45 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > >> I have a question about >> >> Controls how aggressive velocity smoothing is. It's a bit counterintuitive,

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

2014-01-07 Thread sam sokolik
I have a question about Controls how aggressive velocity smoothing is. It's a bit counterintuitive, a value of 0.5 means no smoothing, a value of 0.0 means every segment is "smoothed". Decrease this value if the velocity profile seems to be too "bumpy". ARC_BLEND_SMOOTHING_THRESHOLD = 0.4 I see

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

2014-01-05 Thread sam sokolik
boxusercontent.com/u/10948059/linuxcnc-trajectory-tests/tight%20corner%20arc%20blend.png > > Here's the same motion with arc blends now: > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10948059/linuxcnc-trajectory-tests/tight%20corner%20arc%20blend.png > > -Rob > > > On Sun

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

2014-01-05 Thread sam sokolik
to be safe. If anyone >>> has pulled from that branch in the last three days, please reset to the >>> current circular-blend-arc-alpha branch, which should point to this >> commit: >>> 689e5cb185f87deba62391cd184f21f360ce2246 >>> >>> I'll push an

Re: [Emc-developers] circular-blend-arc-alpha

2013-12-30 Thread sam sokolik
and you do want to use circular-blend-arc-alpha.. sam On 12/30/2013 09:07 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > Robert just pushed some changes today..I have not tested it. If you > go back to commit 7709c21 from the 27th - I know that built. > > sam > On 12/30/2013 09:01 PM, phill carter

Re: [Emc-developers] circular-blend-arc-alpha

2013-12-30 Thread sam sokolik
Robert just pushed some changes today..I have not tested it. If you go back to commit 7709c21 from the 27th - I know that built. sam On 12/30/2013 09:01 PM, phill carter wrote: > I am intending to test the new arc-blending with my Sherline mill by > engraving pcb's. > I am using Lubuntu 12.

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

2013-12-30 Thread sam sokolik
nce it's a lot of work for a relatively small gain, but I'm > hoping to add these features in the future. > > -Rob > > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:37 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > >> I just ran your program in my config. It does seem to slow down more in >>

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

2013-12-30 Thread sam sokolik
I just ran your program in my config. It does seem to slow down more in spots than the current TP The left side for sure runs at full speed in the current tp vs the new. I think Robert should weigh in on it. Current TP http://imagebin.org/284460 New TP http://imagebin.org/284458 Here is the

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

2013-12-27 Thread sam sokolik
never mind... You changed Q to default to zero - so I had a G64P.5 and in the previous build - that (as you have found out) also sets the Q to .5. So changing to G64P.5Q.5 I get the same speed. sorry sam On 12/27/2013 12:55 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > Ok, I'll take a look at those versions

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

2013-12-26 Thread sam sokolik
st config to see if it works on your build? > > tests/trajectory-planner/circular-arcs/circular_arcs.ini > If that works then I'd suspect a typo. > > On Dec 26, 2013 2:37 PM, "sam sokolik" wrote: >> Did you get a chance to see if the ini settings are working for

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

2013-12-26 Thread sam sokolik
n your build? > > tests/trajectory-planner/circular-arcs/circular_arcs.ini > If that works then I'd suspect a typo. > > On Dec 26, 2013 2:37 PM, "sam sokolik" wrote: >> Did you get a chance to see if the ini settings are working for you? I >> have not tested it

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

2013-12-26 Thread sam sokolik
Did you get a chance to see if the ini settings are working for you? I have not tested it since tuesday. could it be something I am doing wrong? thanks sam On 12/26/2013 10:54 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > I like this idea, as it would make it much easier to make changes without > messing up

Re: [Emc-developers] Breaking Free of the Box

2013-12-26 Thread sam sokolik
The way I understand it - the kins are 'on top' of motion at the moment. (I don't know if ja4 solves this - but I think it is the start).. So motion calculates the xyzabcuvw limits - then they get run through the kins module which could depending on the machine layout - multiply or divide the

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

2013-12-25 Thread sam sokolik
if you pulled as of the 23rd.. - I could not get it to work. (seems to run like the old tp.) Things to note - the lookahead works (circular arc blending) if - line-line segments - tangent line-arc, arc-line - tangent arc-arc so if you have a bunch of non tangent arc-arc or arc-line segments -

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

2013-12-24 Thread sam sokolik
Unless I am doing something wrong :) Thanks for looking at this! sam On 12/24/2013 11:09 AM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > Darn, I was hoping it would just work :). I'll take a look later today, > chances are I forgot to commit / push something. > -

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

2013-12-24 Thread sam sokolik
(and I did use fallback.. (copy and paste error)) I tried for grins setting the fallback to 0 with the same result. ARC_BLEND_FALLBACK_ENABLE = 1 sam On 12/24/2013 9:45 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > I added these to the traj section (from what it looks like from your > exp

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

2013-12-24 Thread sam sokolik
/2013 5:54 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > Yes, I added that one too. Keep in mind the tradeoff with this method: a > large max feed override means blend arc radii are larger than you'd expect > for a given feed rate. > On Dec 23, 2013 6:50 PM, "sam sokolik" wrote: > >>

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

2013-12-23 Thread sam sokolik
one last question on smoothing.. Does that in effect 'average' out the velocity? So smoothing would make the machine run less 'bumpy' with a hit on speed? Thanks sam On 12/23/2013 02:50 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > I just pushed an update that moves a few settings into the INI file. To > make

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

2013-12-23 Thread sam sokolik
Is it seeing the feedrate override from the ini also? again - great work! sam On 12/23/2013 02:50 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > I just pushed an update that moves a few settings into the INI file. To > make your config use circular arc blends, you should add these 4 lines to > your config: > > T

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

2013-12-23 Thread sam sokolik
Wow - great work! I hope to test this tomorrow. sam On 12/23/2013 02:50 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > I just pushed an update that moves a few settings into the INI file. To > make your config use circular arc blends, you should add these 4 lines to > your config: > > This setting enables arc ble

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

2013-12-20 Thread sam sokolik
Ok - the changes showed up - built and ran the program that was causing the violations - YAY! I will keep hammering on it thanks again - impressive work! sam On 12/20/2013 4:52 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > Did you push your changes last night? I don't see them in the > circular-blen

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