Re: [Emc-users] Ok John Thornton

2008-10-22 Thread John Thornton
Looks like your getting the hang of it now :) John On 21 Oct 2008 at 11:19, John Domville wrote: Success After a lot of trial and error and tons of help from the emc-users I was able to make the PCB on the SHERLINE mill. This is my first finished work done on the new CNC

Re: [Emc-users] Engrave11.py

2008-10-22 Thread Ian W. Wright
John, First thing you must do is to confirm that your Z axis moves positive for up and negative for down. Jog it to a position well above the work surface, Touch Off or Home to zero it, and then in MDI (hit F5 to get there) type in G1 Z-0.5 F1 or something similar. If the axis goes up instead

Re: [Emc-users] Engrave11.py

2008-10-22 Thread jdomville
+ moves the Z axis down (into the piece) and the - moves the piece up, away from the work. Ian W. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : John, First thing you must do is to confirm that your Z axis moves positive for up and negative for down. Jog it to a position well above the work surface,

Re: [Emc-users] Engrave11.py

2008-10-22 Thread jdomville
+ moves the Z axis down (into the piece) and the - moves the piece up, away from the work. Ian W. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : John, First thing you must do is to confirm that your Z axis moves positive for up and negative for down. Jog it to a position well above the work surface,

Re: [Emc-users] Engrave11.py

2008-10-22 Thread jdomville
+ moves the Z axis down (into the piece) and the - moves the piece up, away from the work. Ian W. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : John, First thing you must do is to confirm that your Z axis moves positive for up and negative for down. Jog it to a position well above the work surface,

Re: [Emc-users] Engrave11.py

2008-10-22 Thread jdomville
+ moves the Z axis down (into the piece) and the - moves the piece up, away from the work. Ian W. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : John, First thing you must do is to confirm that your Z axis moves positive for up and negative for down. Jog it to a position well above the work surface,

Re: [Emc-users] Engrave11.py

2008-10-22 Thread jdomville
+ moves the Z axis down (into the piece) and the - moves the piece up, away from the work. Ian W. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : John, First thing you must do is to confirm that your Z axis moves positive for up and negative for down. Jog it to a position well above the work surface,

[Emc-users] G-Code definition

2008-10-22 Thread Easy Dad
To Jon Elson, Would you give the definition of a G 64P x.xxx I would like to know if the x.xxx is a percentage of F speed or is it a specific distance away from the vector line. It's only foam, but I'm melting every test file I run :-) Thanks, Dale

Re: [Emc-users] hot wire cutting

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Epicier
Hi Jeff I realised I am writing to one uf the authors of emc / axis. Let me tell you I am just excited about emc / axis and I guess I have barely scratched the surface. This software *is* great, excellent work! On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:23:35PM +, Chris Epicier wrote: Hi Jeff I'd

Re: [Emc-users] Engrave11.py

2008-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + moves the Z axis down (into the piece) and the - moves the piece up, away from the work. A: That is backwards, reverse the sign in a scale directive for that axis in your .ini file, or if steppers, turn off the power and reverse the phase

[Emc-users] Respuesta automática

2008-10-22 Thread eyelagui
Me cansé de que hotmail me mande a la basura todo mi correo útil y siga dejando entrar a mi bandeja de entrada todo el correo basura.Me cambié al correo de google, te recomiendo hacer lo mismo.I´m tired of hotmail trowing all my useful email to trash as spam and letting so much spam to get into my

Re: [Emc-users] G-Code definition

2008-10-22 Thread Jeff Epler
Contouring mode: G64 P- --- The P-number for G64 P- is a distance. This enables the naive cam detector and enables blending with a tolerance. Naive cam detector == Successive G1 moves that involve only the XYZ axes that deviate less than P- from a straight

[Emc-users] Respuesta automática

2008-10-22 Thread eyelagui
Me cansé de que hotmail me mande a la basura todo mi correo útil y siga dejando entrar a mi bandeja de entrada todo el correo basura.Me cambié al correo de google, te recomiendo hacer lo mismo.I´m tired of hotmail trowing all my useful email to trash as spam and letting so much spam to get into my

Re: [Emc-users] Respuesta autom?tica

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:13:24AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me cans* de que hotmail me mande a la basura todo mi correo *til y siga I've removed this person from the mailing list. It may take a while for this to take effect. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THESE MESSAGES OR THIS THREAD.

Re: [Emc-users] Engrave11.py-some progress

2008-10-22 Thread John Domville
Att: Lawrence G, Well, after the rebuild that followed my LINUX crash I went into EMC2 and wrote another Congi.ini file, this time with the Z axis reversed. Running the program seems to be ok now on The direction of Z axis. However, now it seems that the Z axis is plunging deeper

Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-22 Thread Dave Keeton
I agree. Every time I have mentioned it the discussion ends up with It's a bad idea to run servos from modbus. I couldn't agree more but it could be very usful for simple digital I/O very safely. Dave On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 09:25 +1000, Peter Homann wrote: Rather than writing another serial

Re: [Emc-users] some questions

2008-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, ygdan1001 wrote: hi! how connect EMC2 with the servo motor in the real world? is that ok, if just configure the parallel port? if i do this, is it safe to my computer? The computer itself contains no power drivers, so you must use some sort of an external

Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-22 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 21:03 -0400, Dave Keeton wrote: I agree. Every time I have mentioned it the discussion ends up with It's a bad idea to run servos from modbus. I couldn't agree more but it could be very usful for simple digital I/O very safely. Dave On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 09:25

Re: [Emc-users] Engrave11.py-some progress

2008-10-22 Thread Mark Jackson
I've been following this thread because I am also interested in engraving. Is Engrave11.py a program that is available on the web? If so I haven't been able to find it. Thanks, MJ --- On Wed, 10/22/08, Lawrence Glaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Lawrence Glaister [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Emc-users] some questions

2008-10-22 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 09:03 +0800, ygdan1001 wrote: hi! how connect EMC2 with the servo motor in the real world? is that ok, if just configure the parallel port? if i do this, is it safe to my computer? thank you! yang Here is a link to a minimal servo configuration:

Re: [Emc-users] Engrave11.py-some progress

2008-10-22 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 19:33 -0700, Mark Jackson wrote: I've been following this thread because I am also interested in engraving. Is Engrave11.py a program that is available on the web? If so I haven't been able to find it. Thanks, MJ I think it's here:

Re: [Emc-users] Stg 1 homing

2008-10-22 Thread Dave Engvall
snip everything and start over I was going to just pick on Ray but I think I will dump on the whole list. In summary: this started out as inconsistencies in the homing of X (something like .03) the lstg diagnostic/exerciser from stg gives interesting results. X axis 2500 cpr encoder on

Re: [Emc-users] Serial IO Interface

2008-10-22 Thread Peter Homann
Kirk Wallace wrote: There is a ModBus feature in Classic Ladder, but it seems to me that an HAL component specifically for the ModIO peripheral would be useful. ModBus may be a standard, but peripherals that use ModBus vary widely. My thinking is that each peripheral needs its own HAL