[Emc-users] ngcgui -- a gui for testing subroutines

2010-01-12 Thread Dewey Garrett
I've been learning how to use emc's gcode subroutines and found it useful to write a gui front-end for testing and using single-file gcode subroutines -- ngcgui.tcl. Features: 1) Makes entry boxes for subroutine parameters 2) Builds an ngc file for one or more features from (optionally)

Re: [Emc-users] PWM input to EMC2

2010-01-12 Thread Moses O McKnight
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 15:59 -0800, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Flying Electron wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:47:34 -0800 > > From: Flying Electron > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > Subject: Re:

Re: [Emc-users] PWM input to EMC2

2010-01-12 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Flying Electron wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:47:34 -0800 > From: Flying Electron > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] PWM input to EMC2 > > I've got a pressure sensor that I'd like

Re: [Emc-users] PWM input to EMC2

2010-01-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Flying Electron wrote: > I've got a pressure sensor that I'd like to use as a probe. The sensor > has a value from 0 - 1023 based on the amount of pressure applied. The > sensor is read by a microcontroller and the microcontroller can generate > a pwm signal based on the sensor value. I was t

Re: [Emc-users] PWM input to EMC2

2010-01-12 Thread Flying Electron
I've got a pressure sensor that I'd like to use as a probe. The sensor has a value from 0 - 1023 based on the amount of pressure applied. The sensor is read by a microcontroller and the microcontroller can generate a pwm signal based on the sensor value. I was thinking that EMC2 could read i

Re: [Emc-users] PWM input to EMC2

2010-01-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Flying Electron wrote: > I've been looking through all the realtime components and haven't seen > anything obvious. Is there a component to read a PWM signal in from a > parallel port pin? That's backwards from how we usually do it - pwm generally comes *from* emc2, goes *out* the parallel por

[Emc-users] PWM input to EMC2

2010-01-12 Thread Flying Electron
I've been looking through all the realtime components and haven't seen anything obvious. Is there a component to read a PWM signal in from a parallel port pin? -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer

Re: [Emc-users] OT: SolidWorks Postprocessor?

2010-01-12 Thread robert
Hi Flo i have used Solidcam in the past its posts files that it uses are in plain txt form, so one can edit them with out any special license or software i presuming here it is still like this if you know what you are doing or are willing to spend a few days playing around with it its no probl

Re: [Emc-users] EMC Fest 2010 ??

2010-01-12 Thread Jon Elson
Jeff Epler wrote: > I hope to attend, and I hope to see fellow developers and users there. > It would be great if we can get a developer area for 6-8 networked PCs > and internet access, as past years have shown this is a great way to > work together on bugs or new features. Does someone know who

Re: [Emc-users] EMC Fest 2010 ??

2010-01-12 Thread Dave
My cousin lives very close to that campus and he recently took a TIG welding class there for fun. He said that facility is really nice and seems to very current regarding industrial technology. Apparently they have a reputation for turning out some of the best welders in the industry. So it s

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] list of real time modules with syntax?

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff Epler
I have added some documentation for several of the kinematics components which did not have manual pages. The documentation is in the development version of the software, but as far as I know the gantrykins documentation applies equally to the 2.3.x versions of emc2. Gantry kinematics: http://lin

Re: [Emc-users] Homing dual drive gantry

2010-01-12 Thread Arnoldritercnc
Thanks Jeff, I've been trying to solve it but with no success till now; I tried using stteper-gantry configuration and modify it to use with my servo system, but no advance. First I need is to link two servos to one axis, I tried using the component "gantrykis" but did not work. I'll take th

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] list of real time modules with syntax?

2010-01-12 Thread Arnoldritercnc
Thanks Jeff, I've found "gantrykins" component, but I can not find any information about it Only I've found are .hal files using "gantrykins" ( like in plasma-thc and gantry configuration ) but telling nothing about it Any help will be welcomed Jeff Epler wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:21

[Emc-users] OT: SolidWorks Postprocessor?

2010-01-12 Thread Florian Rist
Hi, I know it´s off topic but maybe there are some SolidCAM users among the EMC users. I´m thinking about buying SolidCAM but I´d like to use it to program several machines which rewire different postprocessors. Now it´s quite expensive to have these postprocessors generated by a service provid

[Emc-users] Latency test numbers confusing

2010-01-12 Thread Neil Baylis
I've been running the latency test from the applications menu as I experiment with my graphics setup. Today I discovered the command-line version, and ran that. What's confusing is that I get different results depending on which one I run. When I run the command-line version, the worst laten

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 hardware step generators

2010-01-12 Thread Dave
On 1/12/2010 5:22 AM, rng3 wrote: > Gentlemen, > > Thanks to all of you for your quick response and excellent information. It > is a great example of why EMC2 support has such a great reputation. > > I built my first cnc router ( 4' x 8') 10 years ago but have just started > learning EMC2 and conve

Re: [Emc-users] EMC Fest 2010 ??

2010-01-12 Thread Steve Stallings
Jeff, If you are talking about the new CNC Workshop, the contact point is: George Bulliss Editor, Village Press Publications 2779 Aero Park Drive Traverse City, MI 49686 (800) 327-7377 gbull...@villagepress.com Earlier comments seem to indicate that they will be able to arrange space, allow o

Re: [Emc-users] EMC Fest 2010 ??

2010-01-12 Thread Ed
Steve Stallings wrote: > Just wanted to start the discussion about having an EMC Fest > in 2010. Have any discussions about where and when taken > place? > > The 2009 show in Wichita, KS worked very well for developers, > but was not associated with a traditional "public" show. > > The old CNC Wo

Re: [Emc-users] EMC Fest 2010 ??

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff Epler
I hope to attend, and I hope to see fellow developers and users there. It would be great if we can get a developer area for 6-8 networked PCs and internet access, as past years have shown this is a great way to work together on bugs or new features. Does someone know who to talk to about that? Je

Re: [Emc-users] M101-199 pause problem

2010-01-12 Thread Alex Joni
Use M62-63 [1] for digital outputs which don't interrupt your motion. Or use M67 [2] for analog output which doesn't interrupt motion, but this is only available in the current developement version. Regards, Alex [1] - http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/devel/html/gcode_main.html#sec:M62-to-M65:

[Emc-users] EMC Fest 2010 ??

2010-01-12 Thread Steve Stallings
Just wanted to start the discussion about having an EMC Fest in 2010. Have any discussions about where and when taken place? The 2009 show in Wichita, KS worked very well for developers, but was not associated with a traditional "public" show. The old CNC Workshop show is no longer held in Camero

Re: [Emc-users] Servo Drives

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:47:28AM +0200, Roland Jollivet wrote: > What's the resolution etc. of your encoder, and what did it cost? > > They seem reluctant to simply list pricing. I don't know about pricing direct from CUI, but digikey sells them starting at single quantity and will happily disp

Re: [Emc-users] M101-199 pause problem

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:10:17PM +0300, Евгений Александрович wrote: > Any way to use M101 without pause No. M101 is not "realtime" so we have to drain the realtime motion queue, invoke M101, wait for it to exit, and then start movement again. Spindle control can in principle operate without c

Re: [Emc-users] emc2 hardware step generators

2010-01-12 Thread rng3
Gentlemen, Thanks to all of you for your quick response and excellent information. It is a great example of why EMC2 support has such a great reputation. I built my first cnc router ( 4' x 8') 10 years ago but have just started learning EMC2 and converting my cnc machines to it the last few wee

[Emc-users] M101-199 pause problem

2010-01-12 Thread Евгений Александрович
Hello guys, We still try to run sewing-machine robot. New problem is pause (about 0,3 sec) on M101 command We use M101 (M102, M103, M104) to manage speed of needle. Here some example of program M3 S4000 G0 X9.100 Y197.600 Z4.000 M101 (set slow speed of needle)(pause 0,3 sec