Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-25 Thread dfro
Slavko, Thanks for the schematic! That is an elegant solution, in lieu of a built-in software routine. Could you explain how you are controlling the on/off of the PASS2HOME relay from EMC2? Or are you doing it manually? Using a pushbutton is a good safety feature. Another idea might be to

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-25 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
2010/4/25 d...@umich.edu Slavko, Thanks for the schematic! That is an elegant solution, in lieu of a built-in software routine. Could you explain how you are controlling the on/off of the PASS2HOME relay from EMC2? Or are you doing it manually? Using a pushbutton is a good safety feature.

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-23 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
d...@umich.edu pravi: Hi Cliff, I am glad to see you are thinking about the homing of tandem motors on an axis. I plan to make a 4' x 6' table with tandem X axis motors. I think this functionality will attract many people with gantry mills to EMC2. How about this sequence: 1. Move both

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-22 Thread dfro
during homing). Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: Cliff Blackburn cblackb...@powertechrepairs.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:11 AM Subject: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints I started

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-21 Thread dave
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints Isn't the separate homing of linked joints needed to remove any misalignment in them? If you just want to do same speed and same acceleration to them, you might just connect control wires to both motors from

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-21 Thread John Kasunich
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:27 -0700, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote: Taking this a half-step further ... a. hold position on master side of gantry b. while monitoring a strain gage on the cross member minimize strain. c. sync sides d. home using master side. Not

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Alex Joni
- Original Message - From: Cliff Blackburn cblackb...@powertechrepairs.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:11 AM Subject: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints I started working on a modification to homing.c so you can home a gantry

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Cliff Blackburn
: Cliff Blackburn cblackb...@powertechrepairs.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:11 AM Subject: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints I started working on a modification to homing.c so you can home a gantry style machine properly

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:11 AM Subject: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints I started working on a modification to homing.c so you can home a gantry style machine properly I have started working on it but have more work before i find how many bugs I

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
Here I'm not understand what in reality is problem?!? Well I don't have gantry machine but as I observe my machine the gantry can be homed in same way. So if I assume the AXIS_0 and AXIS_1 are the gantry then user just must use same parameters for homing speeds and types and HOME_SEQUENCE to

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Main problem seems to be that you need to make sure you don't increase skew between linked axis while homing or working. Hoping that it's small enough and machine can cope with it could be expensive. Second problem, it should still look as one axis to interpreter and gui. Alex. 20.04.2010

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
20.04.2010 18:07, Slavko Kocjancic пишет: Alexey Starikovskiy pravi: Main problem seems to be that you need to make sure you don't increase skew between linked axis while homing or working. Just that.! The homing as is doesn't increase the skew (if parameters are correct)

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
Alexey Starikovskiy pravi: 20.04.2010 18:07, Slavko Kocjancic пишет: Alexey Starikovskiy pravi: Main problem seems to be that you need to make sure you don't increase skew between linked axis while homing or working. Just that.! The homing as is doesn't increase

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:46:41 +0400 From: Alexey Starikovskiy aysta...@gmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
Gantry Homing by Linked Joints On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:46:41 +0400 From: Alexey Starikovskiy aysta...@gmail.com Reply-To: EMC developers emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
20.04.2010 19:30, Peter C. Wallace пишет: (Syncing on index of course assuming you could not easily rack the gantry 1/2 a leadscrew turn) There is a much bigger assumption -- you are running servos, they have index, index is routed in, and index offset between motors is known beforehand.

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Peter C. Wallace
Gantry Homing by Linked Joints 20.04.2010 19:30, Peter C. Wallace ??: (Syncing on index of course assuming you could not easily rack the gantry 1/2 a leadscrew turn) There is a much bigger assumption -- you are running servos, they have index, index is routed in, and index offset between

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
2010/4/20 Slavko Kocjancic esla...@gmail.com Alexey Starikovskiy pravi: 20.04.2010 18:07, Slavko Kocjancic пишет: Alexey Starikovskiy pravi: Main problem seems to be that you need to make sure you don't increase skew between linked axis while homing or working. Just that.!

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Petr Ledvina
Hello, from my understaning of EMC2 code this problem is another manifestation of axes/joints difference. Home switch is on joint, home position is probably considered in cartesian (axis) space. Not all joint coordinates are vadid. And homing should somehow avoid theese invalid positions. Maybe

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
2010/4/20 Cliff Blackburn cblackb...@powertechrepairs.com The only thing this would really change is stopping the gantry from skewing it's self any worse while homing. What would happen with homing right now if one of your home switches wasn't working? One joint would stop and the other

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Marc Bodmer
To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:11 AM Subject: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints I started working on a modification to homing.c so you can home a gantry style machine properly I have started working on it but have

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, The schemes I have seen to confirm home switch functionality is to inhibit homing if the homing switch is not made and to have a maximum axis departure during the homing cycle. thanks Stuart -- dos centavos

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Cliff Blackburn
: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints I started working on a modification to homing.c so you can home a gantry style machine properly I have started working on it but have more work before i find how many bugs I created in the process. It adds a option to link 2

Re: [Emc-developers] Coordinated Gantry Homing by Linked Joints

2010-04-20 Thread Cliff Blackburn
Slavko Kocjancic wrote: 2010/4/20 Cliff Blackburn cblackb...@powertechrepairs.com mailto:cblackb...@powertechrepairs.com The only thing this would really change is stopping the gantry from skewing it's self any worse while homing. What would happen with homing right now if one