Re: [Emc-users] NAMES, this weekend (4/18-19, 2009)

2009-04-16 Thread Michael Dubno
The boards look fantastic! I'm bummed, I was going to throw the sand table into the back of my jeep and drive from New York City but I have to attend the big FIRST event down in Atlanta. I think many of the folks interested in EMC will find FIRST's mission quite to their liking - we get kids

Re: [Emc-users] compile emc2 in Glade or eclipse

2009-04-16 Thread Rob Jansen
Duc, I have to agree with Jeff. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?action=browseid=Installing_EMC2revision=146 describes in good detail what to do to install EMC (from the Live CD), get the sources and the tools and compile everything. The EMC team did a real good job on this: I

[Emc-users] Gcode loops best practice in practise!!?

2009-04-16 Thread alan battersby
Hello everyone, I hope someone on this forum can offer some advice. I asked this question on CNCZone Gcode programming but have not yet had a reply. Perhaps I didnt word it clearly enough so can anyone on this forum help? I am in the process of building a cnc setup onto my wood lathe, to

Re: [Emc-users] Gcode loops best practice in practise!!?

2009-04-16 Thread John Guenther
Hi Alan, I can't tell you what the best practices are but I can tell you what the CAM software that I have used does. It will normally cut the entire path to a the specified width and depth leaving some material to be removed in the finish pass. A lot depends on what you are making, from your

Re: [Emc-users] Gcode loops best practice in practise!!?

2009-04-16 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
alan battersby wrote: Hello everyone, I hope someone on this forum can offer some advice. I asked this question on CNCZone Gcode programming but have not yet had a reply. Perhaps I didnt word it clearly enough so can anyone on this forum help? Unfortunately, CNCZone isn't the best place to

Re: [Emc-users] Gcode loops best practice in practise!!?

2009-04-16 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 19:19 +0100, alan battersby wrote: Hello everyone, I hope someone on this forum can offer some advice. I asked this question on CNCZone Gcode programming but have not yet had a reply. Perhaps I didnt word it clearly enough so can anyone on this forum help? I am in the

Re: [Emc-users] Gcode loops best practice in practise!!?

2009-04-16 Thread alan battersby
Kirk Wallace wrote: If I were to do this, I would think about What would I do if I were routing this out by hand?. I have had little wood routing experience, but it seems to me that there are issues with wood and shallow or slow cuts. Also when coming up to corners, wood can tend tend to

Re: [Emc-users] raid across shelves

2009-04-16 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 05:04:57PM -0400, Andrey Dmitriev wrote: I have been told, that it's not recommended to have a raid group across shelves, yet we have a few setups that are working just fine, however I might not just be aware of either risk, or a potential performance degradation.

Re: [Emc-users] raid across shelves

2009-04-16 Thread Andrey Dmitriev
Oops.. my apologies. -andrey - Original Message - From: Jeff Epler jep...@unpythonic.net Sent: Thu, 4/16/2009 5:22pm To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] raid across shelves On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 05:04:57PM -0400, Andrey

[Emc-users] A new pyVCP Widget

2009-04-16 Thread John Pfleger
I have several python scripts to generate G-Code that I use frequently. It would be nice if we could have a widget that would do the equivalent of opening a script. The easiest would be similar to the button except instead of connecting to a halpin, it would open a predefined script. script

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe Threading Issues

2009-04-16 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 11:20 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: Kirk Wallace wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 20:57 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: ... snip problem, but I made the final fix at the 2007 EMC-Fest, and the driver fixes were in the July 2007 release of EMC2. So, I wanted to see if anyone