Re: [Emc-users] lead screw compensation

Hi Kirk, thanks for pointing out the stale docs. Lead screw compensation is fully enabled in emc2 (I think since 2.1.0 surely, not sure about 2.0.x though). You only need the following in your [AXIS_*] section [AXIS_0] .. COMP_FILE = joint0.cmp (you can also specify COMP_FILE_TYPE != 0 (default i

Re: [Emc-users] lead screw compensation

I hope to get cheaper rolled lead screws and use lead screw compensation to get ground screw performance on my lathe project, so I will be watching this thread. Just in case it might help, there is below an excerpt from: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Kinematics On Sat, 2007-03-10 a

Re: [Emc-users] lead screw compensation

Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Gentlemen, > I will have a machine running very shortly. I cannot find anything about > lead screw compensation. How would I implement it? > thanks It's 1am here, and I'm about to go to bed. There are others who are a little more familiar with screwcomp, but if nobody

[Emc-users] lead screw compensation

Gentlemen, I will have a machine running very shortly. I cannot find anything about lead screw compensation. How would I implement it? thanks Stuart - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net'

Re: [Emc-users] Return of the wrong-way DIR signal

Repeated runs of: G0 Z0.1 G0 Z0 didn't do anything strange. So I looked for something with more random direction reversals. Flowsnake.ngc fits the bill, so I moved my glitch detection logic to X and tried it. (This is using your ini and hal files.) The result: http://jmkasunich.dyndns.org

Re: [Emc-users] WIFI cards and Ubuntu 6.06

On Friday 09 March 2007, Jon Elson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>Everybody in the neighborhood now has a dsl modem with wifi in it and >>apparently enabled, I can see anywhere from 2 to 4 with a pocket >> sniffer here. Not trusting to have a wifi on my side of the firewall, >> I took the chicken w

Re: [Emc-users] WIFI cards and Ubuntu 6.06

Gene Heskett wrote: >Everybody in the neighborhood now has a dsl modem with wifi in it and >apparently enabled, I can see anywhere from 2 to 4 with a pocket sniffer >here. Not trusting to have a wifi on my side of the firewall, I took the >chicken way out and ran a hunk of cat5 to the shop, ha

Re: [Emc-users] Return of the wrong-way DIR signal

Ed wrote: >> provides the ability to trigger on them > > I -think- this would work, but it assumes the position-cmd > signal is correct... which may not be the case. > > Set up a g-code routine to G0 between Z=0 and Z=0.1, loop 10 > times (or all afternoon, when it seems appropriate). Wrote a

Re: [Emc-users] WIFI cards and Ubuntu 6.06

On Friday 09 March 2007, Andy Ibbotson wrote: >Hi, >Another question - Has anyone successfully installed a WIFI card under >Ubuntu 6.06. My CNC PC is out in the workshop and it's a pain to drag >it in to the house and connect it to the router via a cable everytime I >need to update files via the i

Re: [Emc-users] WIFI cards and Ubuntu 6.06

andy wrote: > Another question - Has anyone successfully installed a WIFI card under > Ubuntu 6.06. My CNC PC is out in the workshop and it's a pain to drag > it in to the house and connect it to the router via a cable everytime I do you already have wireless in the house? if so, another opti

Re: [Emc-users] WIFI cards and Ubuntu 6.06

I would get a wireless card that has native drivers in linux - like atheros. I have a buffalo card and had to use fwcutter to get it to work (a bit of a pain). sam - Original Message - From: "Andy Ibbotson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)'" Sent: Friday, Mar

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

Based on the vendor and product you showed me, I would try creating /etc/udev/rules.d/shuttle.rules with the line SYSFS{idProduct}=="0020", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0b33", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev" then unplug and re-plug the device, and list the directory /dev/input to see if there is a device wit

[Emc-users] WIFI cards and Ubuntu 6.06

Hi, Another question - Has anyone successfully installed a WIFI card under Ubuntu 6.06. My CNC PC is out in the workshop and it's a pain to drag it in to the house and connect it to the router via a cable everytime I need to update files via the internet (not to mention the grief received from the

Re: [Emc-users] StepTimingCalculator.ods

Ah ha, got it. Thanks for the guys. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Wille Padnos Sent: 09 March 2007 21:13 To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] StepTimingCalculator.ods John Kasunich wrote: >Andy Ibbotso

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

Jeff Thanks for this suggestion. It shows the power of such a modular system - I am conditioned by too many special cases :=) I was using EMC2 2.0 under Ubuntu so I decided it would be best to compile Trunk - just completed OK. less on /proc/bus/input/devices has the Shuttle as: I: Bus=0003 V

Re: [Emc-users] StepTimingCalculator.ods

John Kasunich wrote: >Andy Ibbotson wrote: > > >>Hi All, >>Does anyone know where I can obtain a copy of StepTimingCalculator.ods? >>I've followed the link in TweakingSoftwareStepGeneration but only seems >>to down load a zip file full of .xml files. >> >> >[snip] > >What kind of system are

Re: [Emc-users] StepTimingCalculator.ods

Andy Ibbotson wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know where I can obtain a copy of StepTimingCalculator.ods? > I've followed the link in TweakingSoftwareStepGeneration but only seems > to down load a zip file full of .xml files. That collection of XML files _IS_ the spreadsheet. Unlike Microshaft, Of

Re: [Emc-users] StepTimingCalculator.ods

Hi Andy. You should download that document and save it. OpenOffice documents are stored as zip archives of XML files, so that is the correct file, but something is identifying it as an archive for you and opening it with the wrong program (I think). - Steve Andy Ibbotson wrote: >Hi All, >Do

[Emc-users] StepTimingCalculator.ods

Hi All, Does anyone know where I can obtain a copy of StepTimingCalculator.ods? I've followed the link in TweakingSoftwareStepGeneration but only seems to down load a zip file full of .xml files. Thanks for your help. Regards Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: [Emc-users] connection from display to hal

This sounds like a good idea. I have added this feature to the development version of AXIS, for eventual inclusion in emc 2.2. The new HAL pin will be named 'axisui.jog.increment'. Jeff - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence

Re: [Emc-users] Return of the wrong-way DIR signal

Ed wrote: > HAL seems to lack an XOR, so... Not any more ;-) (although the XOR component I just added is only in the CVS version of EMC, so it won't help much) If you aren't afraid of a bit of compiling, you can get the CVS version. That will give you the xor component, and more importantly wi

Re: [Emc-users] Return of the wrong-way DIR signal

> provides the ability to trigger on them I -think- this would work, but it assumes the position-cmd signal is correct... which may not be the case. Set up a g-code routine to G0 between Z=0 and Z=0.1, loop 10 times (or all afternoon, when it seems appropriate). Run stepgen.2.position through

[Emc-users] CNC lathe integrator

I am shopping for a CNC toolroom-type lathe for our Manufacturing Systems lab. I would love to have an open-source control running on standard hardware, as doing our own low-cost maintenance would be a real benefit. Unfortunately, I haven't got the time to do my own retrofit of a lathe with Linux

Re: [Emc-users] Return of the wrong-way DIR signal

> 25 in/sec?  Do you mean 25 in/min maybe? Looks like my brain is much closer to its best-used-by date than I thought. Finger fumble 3 of 2 and counting. (That said, using per-second units in the INI and per-minute in g-code has caused me considerable head-scratching. A foolish consistency & s

[Emc-users] lead screw compensation

Gentlemen, I am nearing completion of the installation of EMC2 on a small three axis mill. I will shortly need to implement lead screw compensation. I have been unable to find much in reference to this. Where would I find out how to implement this? thanks Stuart --

[Emc-users] connection from display to hal

Gentlemen, I want to use the increment buttons of the display interface to set the increments of a manual pulse generator for axis motion. I have connected the manual pulse generator to the control and I am able to move the axes and the feedrate override with the MPG. Do you have an example I can

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

On Friday 09 March 2007, John Prentice wrote: >Hi, > >- Original Message - >From: "Stephen Wille Padnos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> You're probably thinking of the Griffin PowerMate: >> >> It used to be available in black as well, but i

Re: [Emc-users] Return of the wrong-way DIR signal

Ed wrote: > I fired up my notorious cam-cutting code and, after two > seemingly successful air-cutting runs, chucked up a failed > cam from last year to see what happened. Everything went > well until the last Z-axis move that should have cleared > the workpiece. > > At which point the Z-axis

[Emc-users] Return of the wrong-way DIR signal

I fired up my notorious cam-cutting code and, after two seemingly successful air-cutting runs, chucked up a failed cam from last year to see what happened. Everything went well until the last Z-axis move that should have cleared the workpiece. At which point the Z-axis motor gave off a -thunk-

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

John, I can't make any promises, but I believe that hal_input, which will be a part of emc 2.2, will support most HID devices recognized by Linux. How's your Linux and emc expertise level? You should be able to try out this driver with emc 2.1 by copying a few files from the development version:

Re: [Emc-users] [Fwd: Jog wheel ?]

Hi, - Original Message - From: "Stephen Wille Padnos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You're probably thinking of the Griffin PowerMate: > > It used to be available in black as well, but it looks like it isn't any > more. > > Although it's pro