Re: [Emc-users] Synchronised cam turning

2009-07-20 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:25:58PM +0100, Leslie Newell wrote: > Thanks Jeff > > I'll look into it. Do you know off-hand if there are any current > components that do this? No, I don't think there are any. I proposed something similar (but it doesn't have the adding/removing offsets problem) to

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 live download

2009-07-20 Thread Wayne Patterson
Ronald, Is your Laptop a Dell Inspiron? Rondal Nannie wrote: > I am a new user and I tried to down load emc2 live and it will not run or > install. Also can or is it ok to download to a lap top? I read some where on > the directions that it would stop the computer from going into hibernation?

Re: [Emc-users] Synchronised cam turning

2009-07-20 Thread Jack
I went to a ShopBot event last year and saw where folks did 'turning' using their indexer. The process they used was to determine the 'final diameter' and layed out a rectangle of 'unwraped' surface (length as the length of the turning, width of the 'final diameter'). Then put whatever they wanted

Re: [Emc-users] Synchronised cam turning

2009-07-20 Thread Leslie Newell
Thanks Jeff I'll look into it. Do you know off-hand if there are any current components that do this? Les > > rtai has shared memory between realtime components and userspace. This > is how the communication between task and motion works, and how it works > between the userspace and realtime

Re: [Emc-users] Synchronised cam turning

2009-07-20 Thread Leslie Newell
Heh. An A axis would be too easy :-) TBH I think I may pass on this job. Too many unknowns. I will check if the cams can be made in pieces. If so then I could simply mill the lobes. Les Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 20 July 2009, Dave Caroline wrote: >> An excuse to put a milling spindle on t

Re: [Emc-users] Synchronised cam turning

2009-07-20 Thread Jeff Epler
> > emc and gcode don't, but of course hal does. You could create a > > component which offsets the commanded X according to the spindle angle > > and the shape of the cam. > > The component would include the mathematical > > description of the cam shape, r=f(theta)+r0. > > On Mon, Jul 20, 200

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 live download

2009-07-20 Thread Jack
Personally, I find that true, using direct install on ubuntu rather than the EMC2 CD. Actually installing Ubuntu 8.04 LTS from CD, get it talking on your network but DO NOT update Ubuntu at this time. Then do the EMC2 install. Afterwards updating Ubuntu generates the fewest problems for me. IHS

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 live download

2009-07-20 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > Rondal Nannie wrote: > > Gene I went in and changed it so that it would boot the cd first. It > started to load the cd and about 3/4 into it ,it failed to load. This > happened several times.Thanks for the reply Ron > > > You must have 256 MB

[Emc-users] emc axis acts different between test and machine

2009-07-20 Thread Peter Cauchy
Having gotten another power supply for my machine, thanks to the advice found here, my machine is running at about 30 in/min, yay! Now a new problem has cropped up, my z-axis works fine in setting up the config, but when running the machine with the config, it will only step .02 in per jog, ev

Re: [Emc-users] Synchronised cam turning

2009-07-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 20 July 2009, Dave Caroline wrote: >An excuse to put a milling spindle on the crossslide maybe. >will the clearance angle be ok if turning > >Dave Caroline I think that is something I would do with the A axis. I have turned stuff with it, but haven't tried to make a cam yet. I got stu

[Emc-users] OK ..... turn your imagination loose ... (OT)

2009-07-20 Thread Dave Engvall
http://siftables.com/ Enjoy. A long ways to go but.. Dave -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to

Re: [Emc-users] Synchronised cam turning

2009-07-20 Thread Dave Caroline
An excuse to put a milling spindle on the crossslide maybe. will the clearance angle be ok if turning Dave Caroline -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a

Re: [Emc-users] Synchronised cam turning

2009-07-20 Thread Leslie Newell
Hi Jeff, I would have replied earlier but I blew up my X11 settings and it took me this long to get it working again... > is one of two things: you have lots of tiny moves, Yes. There isn't much choice in this. To even get a simple offset circle you need to generate lots of short lines. > or

Re: [Emc-users] Modbus driver for Toshiba VF-S11 VFD available

2009-07-20 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Haberler Michael wrote: > I've finished a first release of a HAL userspace component to drive a > Toshiba VF-S11 VFD via Modbus, vfs11_vfd. It's adapted from gs2_vfd.c > and works fine for me so far. A description how to connect the VFD and > set init

Re: [Emc-users] OpenGL on EMC2? + 7i43

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:24:29AM -0300, Richard Acosta wrote: > > I really don't want to keep this going and going This does not appear to be true. Chris -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chan

Re: [Emc-users] OpenGL on EMC2? + 7i43

2009-07-20 Thread Richard Acosta
Chris, thanks or your time on writing, but you shouldn't take so much time to explain that people is not perfect, and programas can barely be bug free. I repeat (again) my problem is not so much with EMC people for making the effort, but with some of those who only can fill their mouth(fingers)

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 with AXIS as pure simulator on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-07-20 Thread Jeff Epler
Thanks for the great step by step. I've put a link from the wiki to this post in the mailing list archive. Jeff -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a lim

Re: [Emc-users] X axis Homing in wrong direction

2009-07-20 Thread Jeff Epler
If the DRO is counting in the wrong direction, then negate the "X Step" signal on the Parallel Port Setup page. If the DRO is counting in the right direction but the homing move is going in the wrong direction, then negate the value of Home Search Velocity on the X Axis Configuration page. htt

Re: [Emc-users] Synchronised cam turning

2009-07-20 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:23:55AM +0100, Leslie Newell wrote: > Has anyone tried turning a cam on a lathe using EMC? I tried using lots > of G33 moves but they seem to get out of sync. My machine has pretty > high acceleration and top speed but even at very low spindle speeds > (14rpm) it doesn

[Emc-users] Synchronised cam turning

2009-07-20 Thread Leslie Newell
Has anyone tried turning a cam on a lathe using EMC? I tried using lots of G33 moves but they seem to get out of sync. My machine has pretty high acceleration and top speed but even at very low spindle speeds (14rpm) it doesn't seem to keep up. Does EMC have any other way of doing synchronised