Re: [Emc-users] Writing another user interface software

2009-02-07 Thread Sasa Vilic
Thank you Steve, you helped me a lot. What I am trying to do is next thing: I have a plasma cutter and the filter is used for: 1. Takes input from dxf files 2. Recognize (closed) profiles 3. It has option of adding cutter radius compensation 4. You can take a couple of profiles and group them. T

[Emc-users] Absolute encoders

2009-02-07 Thread Lars Levin
Hi all! I have been monitoring this list for several yoars and also been planning my milling machine for too long, but I do have an old milling machine converted and up and running with EMC2 step/dir. My new machine will require two motors on each axis, XXYYZZ A and B This will be a 3 axis port

Re: [Emc-users] Absolute encoders

2009-02-07 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, Just a thought on single axis multi motor homing. If the homing sequence would inhibit the axis reaching the index until both have reach index then homing would be as trivial as single axis single motor. thanks Stuart On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Lars Levin wrote: > Hi all! > > I

[Emc-users] Servomotors.

2009-02-07 Thread amtb
Hello I start look for another set (2 ) servomotors for my bigger machine and check on E-Bay. http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=servomotor&_sacat=See-All-Categories there are motor Kollmorgen servomotor for $75. And owner responded – The motor is brand new. It has never had power ap

[Emc-users] CAN-Bus drivers

2009-02-07 Thread Eric Taada
CAN-BUS is proprietary to Bosch and may conflict with EMC's open source principals. It is found in many vehicles both on land and sea including BMW motorcycles since 2004. There would be a wealth of hardware options available to the folks who develop the drivers. ---

Re: [Emc-users] CAN-Bus drivers

2009-02-07 Thread Jim Fleig - CNC Services
FWIW I cannot speak to the issue of Bosch having proprietary rights to CAN-BUS communication. I have seen CAN-BUS used on many machine tools that did not have any Bosch software (that I know of) or hardware (I definitely know there was no Bosch hardware). It was my impression that CAN-BUS was

Re: [Emc-users] CAN-Bus drivers

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Jim Fleig - CNC Services wrote: > FWIW > > I cannot speak to the issue of Bosch having proprietary rights to CAN-BUS > communication. I have seen CAN-BUS used on many machine tools that did not > have any Bosch software (that I know of) or hardware (I definitely know > there was no Bosch hardw

Re: [Emc-users] jog does not stop!

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas Kaiser
John Kasunich wrote: > Fix the speed problem and the crazy following error limit, and the jog problem will fix itself. Hello John Now, I found good parameters where the axis move like expected. Here are the important part of the .ini file: [EMCMOT] EMCMOT = motmod SHMEM_KEY = 111 COMM_TIMEOUT

Re: [Emc-users] CAN-Bus drivers

2009-02-07 Thread R.L. Wurdack
While CAN was a Bosch development I don't think there are IP restrictions as CAN is in universal use these days (far more than automotive) and an international standard. Microchip has a fine development system using their 2515. It seems like it would be silly in today's chip market to limit chip

[Emc-users] VFD recommendation for lathe spindle

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hey As I said in some other posts, I retrofit a Schaublin 125 lathe with EMC2. On this machine the spindle speed is controlled by 2 different motor speeds and a mechanical "stepless" gear. Instead of programming a hal component to use this 'stepless" gear, I would like to use a VFD instead. Th

Re: [Emc-users] CAN-Bus drivers

2009-02-07 Thread paul_c
On Saturday 07 February 2009, Thomas Kaiser wrote: > you can find a CAN PCI card for your PC. The question is if there is a > drive available which works with Linux There are several drivers available for use with Linux (and a few with realtime Linux) - Most of the code I have relates to SJA1000

[Emc-users] My hal-input HID device does not install as expected

2009-02-07 Thread Lars Andersson
From: Lars Andersson [mailto:l...@larsandersson.com] Sent: den 7 februari 2009 09:37 To: 'emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: my jog-axis does not work Hi all, have a problem with my jog wwheel Parts of my setup.hal file: loadusr hal_input -W -A Bodnar . net jogs axis

Re: [Emc-users] VFD recommendation for lathe spindle

2009-02-07 Thread John Thornton
While I have not hooked it up yet, I have tested the Automation Direct GS2 drive with the gs2 userspace driver coming out in 2.3. It works over modbus... SWP wrote the driver and it seems to work pretty slick... It is not real time so if you don't need real time it is real cost effictive...

Re: [Emc-users] My hal-input HID device does not install as expected

2009-02-07 Thread John Thornton
Is it a manual pulse generator or a joystick? MPG example here http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Hooking_Up_A_MPG_Pendant joystick example here http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_Remote_Pendant John On 7 Feb 2009 at 21:30, Lars Andersson wrote: > > > > > From:

Re: [Emc-users] My hal-input HID device does not install as expected

2009-02-07 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Lars Andersson wrote: >[snip] >loadusr hal_input -W -A Bodnar > > You probably need the -Wn option for loadusr: loadusr -Wn input hal_input -A Bodnar It looks like you tried to use -W, but put it in the wrong place. >net jogs axis.0.jog-counts <= input.0.abs-x-counts > >setp axis.0.jog-enab

Re: [Emc-users] My hal-input HID device does not install as expected

2009-02-07 Thread John Kasunich
Lars Andersson wrote: > have a problem with my jog wwheel > > Parts of my setup.hal file: > > loadusr hal_input -W -A Bodnar > > net jogs axis.0.jog-counts <= input.0.abs-x-counts > > setp axis.0.jog-enable 1 > setp axis.0.jog-scale 0.01 > > Doing a "WATCH": > > input.0.abs-x-counts _doe

[Emc-users] stepconf won't accept latency test >50K

2009-02-07 Thread Christopher Purcell
Stepconf, on its second screen after the startup, will not accept a latency test result greater than 5. I realize that numbers greater than this may not give acceptable performance for a real machine, but in my case this is on a laptop just for simulation. If you type in a bigger number, it