Re: [Emc-users] Successful Emc2 conversion (happy dance...)

2009-01-17 Thread Tom
Dirk writes: snip... > So, if you want to make a large polariscope, find a LCD monitor, get > the filters out and glue them on a piece of glass. > I googled this about polariscopes: > http://www.ecu.edu/glassblowing/glassstress.html That should make it > clear. > > One remark about the tri

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy

2009-01-17 Thread John Kasunich
Donnie Timmons wrote: > Tom > > I'm glad your up and running. Nice looking part! > > Seam I made the mistake of going the 5i23 on my machine and the drivers are > faulty. No ouputs. Has either Seb Kuzminsky or Peter Wallace told you that the drivers are faulty? If they say it works, it works,

Re: [Emc-users] RES: Successful Emc2 conversion (happy

2009-01-17 Thread Donnie Timmons
Tom I'm glad your up and running. Nice looking part! Could you share your hal and ini files? Seam I made the mistake of going the 5i23 on my machine and the drivers are faulty. No ouputs. So I was looking at starting over with a 5i20 to replace the 5i23 and use the 7i33 and 7i37 I already have

Re: [Emc-users] Probing Results

2009-01-17 Thread saadp
Thanks Jeff. I got it. I was not saving the result of the probing operation properly. I want to use it during the same part program so no need to mess with the var file. Best Regards, Patrice -- This SF.net email is

Re: [Emc-users] Probing Results

2009-01-17 Thread Jeff Epler
As you showed in your first post, you can "save" the results of a probe operation to another numbered parameter, if you want to use it during the same part program. The results of (PROBEOPEN) are for processing with some other software according to the various needs of different users. If you wan

Re: [Emc-users] Probing Results

2009-01-17 Thread saadp
Okay, I inserted (PROBEOPEN filename.txt) and (PROBECLOSE) in my program. EMC2 creates a file in the machine config directory that looks like an array: -26.931041 -44.450006 5.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -26.945332 -44.450006 5.02 0.00 0.00 0.00

[Emc-users] From Cabin Fever 2009

2009-01-17 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
Had an opportunity to visit Cabin Fever in York PA today along with my wife and two boys. It was great they had the Kid train and boat pond set up. My boys got a good workout then watched the steam boats - rinse and repeat. Never having been to one of these shows, there was a great selection of

Re: [Emc-users] Override (force) HAL inputs

2009-01-17 Thread John Kasunich
Thomas Kaiser wrote: > > That's exactly what I was looking for. It works perfect for me, right now. > > On the other side, the "or" suggestion from John looks good, too. But I > could not get it working till now :-( > John, do you have a real live example for me? > The two approaches are signi

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem

2009-01-17 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Donnie Timmons wrote: > I now have the limits working I moved them to pin 32-37, seams pin 24 thru > pin 31 on P3 are not useable. Would I be better off moving the cable to P4 > and leave P3 unused? I will still need some inputs for amp faults and spindle > drive. In an earlier email you said y

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem

2009-01-17 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Donnie Timmons wrote: > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:33:17 -0500 > From: Donnie Timmons > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem > > Peter > >>> I now have the limits w

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem

2009-01-17 Thread Donnie Timmons
Peter >> I now have the limits working I moved them to pin 32-37, seams pin 24 thru >> pin 31 on P3 are not useable. Would I be better off moving the cable to P4 >> and leave P3 unused? I will still need some inputs for amp faults and >> spindle drive. >Are you sure you dont have a cable to

Re: [Emc-users] Probing Results

2009-01-17 Thread Jeff Epler
A comment of the form (PROBEOPEN filename.txt) will open filename.txt and store the 9-number coordinate of each successful straight probe in it. The file must be closed with (PROBECLOSE). http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode_main.html#sub:G38.2:-Straight-Probe Jeff

[Emc-users] Probing Results

2009-01-17 Thread saadp
I am done installing and testing a touch-trigger probe. It works but I am having trouble re-using the results of the probing. I used the following example: http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/personnel/kramer/pubs/RS274NGC_3.web/RS274NGC_33a.html#1013622 Where are the the values such as #5061, #5062,

Re: [Emc-users] Override (force) HAL inputs

2009-01-17 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > Thomas Kaiser wrote: > >> Hello All >> >> I would like to override (force) the input of the home switches for testing. >> >> I created a "checkbutton" vcp component which should overwrite the >> "both-home-x/y" signal: >> >> >> "x-axis-home-force" >> >> >> In t

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem

2009-01-17 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Donnie Timmons wrote: > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:30:47 -0500 > From: Donnie Timmons > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem > > Sebastian > > I now have the limits

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa 5i23 and 7i37 I/O problem

2009-01-17 Thread Donnie Timmons
Sebastian I now have the limits working I moved them to pin 32-37, seams pin 24 thru pin 31 on P3 are not useable. Would I be better off moving the cable to P4 and leave P3 unused? I will still need some inputs for amp faults and spindle drive. Donnie ---

Re: [Emc-users] emcrsh says NAK

2009-01-17 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
They did, but they ended up changing the verbiage to NAKery. Mark At 09:07 AM 1/16/2009, you wrote: >The machine that says NAK, didn't Monty Python write about this? -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Com

Re: [Emc-users] emcrsh now says ACK

2009-01-17 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Chris, Regarding passwords, make sure you have the command line syntax correct. Here is an example: loadusr emcrsh --connectpw=changed enablepw=changedtoo If you can log on with the default passwords and not the passwords from the command line, then there is probably a syntax error. As for ove

Re: [Emc-users] emcrsh now says ACK

2009-01-17 Thread Leslie Newell
It doesn't use much. If you are using it manually, the cpu usage is negligible. Polling around 15 values at 20 times a second (approx 300 GET commands/second) uses around 5% cpu time on my test machine. Les Christopher Purcell wrote: > One more question - what sort of overhead does emcrsh place