Re: [Emc-users] Problem with LiveCD ISO image file?

2007-06-05 Thread Michael M. Butler
On 6/5/07, Stephen Wille Padnos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm suspicious that you have a virus on your Windows machine. I'm > running on a Win2k machine, and the file size is correct (692,107,264 > bytes), and has the same md5sum as Jeff and Linuxcnc.org. I have > successfully burned EMC2 CDs

[Emc-users] scaling G code

2007-06-05 Thread Cecil Thomas
Chips is supposed to run on approximately 4 x 4 inch block which is too big for a sherline based machine. I got it to run on a 2.5 by 2.5 inch block by using stepper_mm.ini and changing the input scale on all the axes from 200 to 50. I tried changing the output scale from 1 to other values but i

Re: [Emc-users] How much is too much jitter?

2007-06-05 Thread Dave Engvall
< copy from .ini> MAX_VELOCITY = 1.5 MAX_ACCELERATION = 1.5 STEPGEN_MAXVEL = 1.7 STEPGEN_MAXACCEL = 1.7 BACKLASH = 0. OK so max velo is 90 ipm seems pretty hot for steppers but I'm not a stepper person. On the other hand the accel at 1.5 seems pretty soft. S

Re: [Emc-users] How much is too much jitter?

2007-06-05 Thread Jon Elson
Jack Ensor wrote: > Jon Elson wrote: >>If you make >>several 1" moves in the same direction with incremental jog, >>what is the error? >> > > Zero, ignoring backlash when giving it individual G1 or G0 commands. The rest of your data is hard to interpret. I think the most important piece is t

Re: [Emc-users] Problem with LiveCD ISO image file?

2007-06-05 Thread Sven Mueller
Michael M. Butler wrote on 05/06/2007 18:24: > On 6/5/07, Jeff Epler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The correct md5sum for that file is >>2b99a5eb6b38d6bebcc1fa1b37ba7075 emc2-ubuntu6.06-desktop-i386.iso >>and the size is 692107264 bytes. I just verified this, both on a copy >>on my local sy

Re: [Emc-users] Text editor

2007-06-05 Thread Rainer Hantsch
Have you had a look on "joe", a WordStar like editor? I use it for everything. On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Andre' Blanchard wrote: | I have been working with EMC2 Live that I installed not long ago, and I | need a better text editor. | I have been trying to get used to vim but that thing requires a lot

Re: [Emc-users] How much is too much jitter?

2007-06-05 Thread Jack Ensor
Jon Elson wrote: >>For speed: >>The max jog speed is set in emc to 90 ipm (1.5 in/sec). When jogging at >>the max rate I measured a step frequency of 813 Hz on phase A. >>Calculating the table speed: >>800 pulses/sec x 60 sec/min x .0004 in/step = 19.2 ipm >>However just by looking at the table m

Re: [Emc-users] Text editor

2007-06-05 Thread Jon Elson
Andre' Blanchard wrote: > I have been working with EMC2 Live that I installed not long ago, and I > need a better text editor. > I have been trying to get used to vim but that thing requires a lot of > typing just to do simple things like split a window. Ugh! (to all vi derivatives) There should

Re: [Emc-users] How much is too much jitter?

2007-06-05 Thread Jack Ensor
Jon Elson wrote: >Jack Ensor wrote: > > >>>When you say homing is OK, but axis is bad, is that all due to >>>speed? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Slowing things down by a factor of ten makes no difference in position >>error. It still jumps all over the place. >> >> >> >Hmmm, strange. Usually r

Re: [Emc-users] Problem with LiveCD ISO image file?

2007-06-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Michael M. Butler wrote: >On 6/5/07, Jeff Epler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>The correct md5sum for that file is >>2b99a5eb6b38d6bebcc1fa1b37ba7075 emc2-ubuntu6.06-desktop-i386.iso >>and the size is 692107264 bytes. I just verified this, both on a copy >>on my local system (downloaded

Re: [Emc-users] Problem with LiveCD ISO image file?

2007-06-05 Thread Michael M. Butler
On 6/5/07, Jeff Epler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The correct md5sum for that file is > 2b99a5eb6b38d6bebcc1fa1b37ba7075 emc2-ubuntu6.06-desktop-i386.iso > and the size is 692107264 bytes. I just verified this, both on a copy > on my local system (downloaded a few months ago) and on the copy

Re: [Emc-users] Text editor

2007-06-05 Thread Jeff Epler
On Ubuntu 6.06, it looks like the package name for gvim is "vim-gui-common". apt support for offline operation seems to be pretty poor, but maybe I've simply never read the right documentation. The basis for offline operation seems to be "apt-get --print-uris", but I've never had to use this. Je

Re: [Emc-users] Text editor

2007-06-05 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:37:41AM -0500, Andre' Blanchard wrote: > I have been working with EMC2 Live that I installed not long ago, and I > need a better text editor. Please (please!) let's not have a long thread about everyone's favorite editor. There are LOTS of them available as packages.

Re: [Emc-users] Text editor

2007-06-05 Thread Hugh Currin
Andre': I use EMACS. An incredibly powerful and extendable editor. I believe it has been around the Unix world for a long time. Takes awhile to learn but worth the effort. It is available for Ubuntu. (I don't use much of its capability but can see the power.) Hope this helps. On Tuesday 05 Ju

[Emc-users] Text editor

2007-06-05 Thread Andre' Blanchard
I have been working with EMC2 Live that I installed not long ago, and I need a better text editor. I have been trying to get used to vim but that thing requires a lot of typing just to do simple things like split a window. I would like to be able to be typing along and decide I want to split th

Re: [Emc-users] Problem with LiveCD ISO image file?

2007-06-05 Thread Jeff Epler
The correct md5sum for that file is 2b99a5eb6b38d6bebcc1fa1b37ba7075 emc2-ubuntu6.06-desktop-i386.iso and the size is 692107264 bytes. I just verified this, both on a copy on my local system (downloaded a few months ago) and on the copy stored on the linuxcnc.org webserver. Jeff ---

Re: [Emc-users] scaling G code

2007-06-05 Thread Ray Henry
Yep On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 23:12 -0500, Cecil Thomas wrote: > I'd like to run 3D_chips.ngc on my converted D&M (sherline) mill but > it is too big for the little machine. > Is there a trivial way to scale it, for instance changing the Units > variable in the .ini file? > > Thanks again, > Cecil