Re: [Emc-users] syncing two motors to one axis

2009-04-09 Thread Rob Jansen
Len, you give me too much credits. I don't know that much about the HAL and to be honest, I am just able to understand the HAL files that I got as samples. Did this all with a bit of standard logic gates since my PC does not have enough I/O to capture all the signals. But my 5i20 and 7i43 Mesa car

[Emc-users] NAMES Photo display update [was EMC at NAMES 2009--banner & update]

2009-04-09 Thread Greg Michalski
Chris - I certainly enjoy donating my time and some resources. But thank you for the recognition. Whether we admit it or not, and regardless of our motives, it's human nature to enjoy and desire the recognition. :) I'm almost done with the photo board layouts and am researching the printing cost

Re: [Emc-users] PCI Parallel port

2009-04-09 Thread Greg Michalski
Will - Where about are you located at? With Chris' comment in mind - I've got a single port Netmos based PCI LPT that is going to be swapped shortly for a dual port Netmos (once I get over to my local shop _ I give them occasional business over Newegg since I don't want them to go under). I'd be

Re: [Emc-users] PCI Parallel port

2009-04-09 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 02:05:15AM +, William Baden wrote: > > Peter, > > Thanks for the idea, I have tried it and still come up with "device > or resource busy" of one address and no output on the other three > addresses. Will have to wait til after this weekend, taking a > vacation with th

Re: [Emc-users] PCI Parallel port

2009-04-09 Thread William Baden
Peter, Thanks for the idea, I have tried it and still come up with "device or resource busy" of one address and no output on the other three addresses. Will have to wait til after this weekend, taking a vacation with the wife! Thanks again, Will Baden > Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:57:58 +0200 >

Re: [Emc-users] Mach3 / EMC G and M-Code

2009-04-09 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Rainer Schmidt wrote: >Is there a fundamental difference between the Mach3 and the EMC G/M >Codes or will all regular/CAM generated stuff for Mach3 run also with >EMC? > > I don't know all the differences, but I do know that there are some canned cycles in Mach that EMC2 doesn't have, like G10/

[Emc-users] Mach3 / EMC G and M-Code

2009-04-09 Thread Rainer Schmidt
Is there a fundamental difference between the Mach3 and the EMC G/M Codes or will all regular/CAM generated stuff for Mach3 run also with EMC? Cheers Rainer -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements i

Re: [Emc-users] syncing two motors to one axis

2009-04-09 Thread Len Shelton
Jon and Rob, You guys obviously know a lot more about the inner working of HAL than I. I am still no closer to understanding what lines of code I need to put into my HAL file. Can you please translate this simple boolean text notation... home_en1 = dir OR NOT home1 home_en2 = dir OR NOT

Re: [Emc-users] USDigital encoders

2009-04-09 Thread Tom
Kirk Wallace writes: snip... > It looks like the E6 kit with the same spec's is $83: > E6-2500-750-I-S-D-D-B > http://usdigital.com/products/encoders/incremental/rotary/kit/e6/ ... > Kirk Got that. Thanks Kirk Tom --

[Emc-users] Kinematic and axis assignment

2009-04-09 Thread Gerhard Gleixner
hi everybody, I started yesterday working with EMC2, seems to be a real great software. Installation on top of Xubuntu hardy was very smoothly using your installation script. Stepper motors are already moving. After studying some threads here, I created also my first kinematic module using

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2.3.0beta2 installaiton help

2009-04-09 Thread John Guenther
Hi Steve; Thanks, that is what I needed to know. I got the pre-built packages and all is well now. - John Guenther 'Ye Olde Pen Maker' Sterling, Virginia On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 09:15 -0400, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > John Guenther wrote: > > >Good morning; > > > >I have EMC 2.2.8 Hardy H

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2.3.0beta2 installaiton help

2009-04-09 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
John Guenther wrote: >Good morning; > >I have EMC 2.2.8 Hardy Heron installed from the live CD, this is working >just fine. I decided to install the 2.3 beta, downloaded the source and >attempted to build it. I appear to be missing some packages needed to >build it. The current error is: > >che

Re: [Emc-users] Thc300 conf, emc 2.2.8, updown.0.reset pin does not exist

2009-04-09 Thread John Thornton
>From a quick look at the man pages updown.n.reset is only in 2.3 2.2.x http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//man/man9/updown.9.html 2.3.x http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/devel/html//man/man9/updown.9.html My guess is that configuration was written to be used with 2.3 John On 9 Apr 2009 at 13:

[Emc-users] EMC2.3.0beta2 installaiton help

2009-04-09 Thread John Guenther
Good morning; I have EMC 2.2.8 Hardy Heron installed from the live CD, this is working just fine. I decided to install the 2.3 beta, downloaded the source and attempted to build it. I appear to be missing some packages needed to build it. The current error is: checking for glib... configure: e

[Emc-users] Thc300 conf, emc 2.2.8, updown.0.reset pin does not exist

2009-04-09 Thread Sasa Vilic
I have updated my computer today trought update manager to version 2.2.8 and downloaded new configuration plasma-thc (thc300). When I started this configuratio, I got error message, that updown.0.reset pin does not exist (thc300.hal). If I comment this line, and later open emc configuratio, I can s

Re: [Emc-users] Bug in stepconf?

2009-04-09 Thread Peter blodow
Steve, I installed Hardy right from the live CD in January. A friend and I did this on three different hard disks to make sure and had the same result. Peter Blodow At 02:10 09.04.2009, you wrote: >Peter blodow wrote: > > >P.S.: I am using hardy (so does Alex Joni) so it may be different from