Re: [Emc-users] Strange MDI.

2010-03-04 Thread Jan de Kruyf
This is a feature of git. Git wants strict white space, but somehow the patch generation does not always give strict whitespace The solution for me is to extract the patch from the mail and apply it manually with patch -l or --ignore-whitespace. (see the patch manpage) j. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010

Re: [Emc-users] Strange MDI.

2010-03-04 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
Jan de Kruyf pravi: This is a feature of git. Git wants strict white space, but somehow the patch generation does not always give strict whitespace The solution for me is to extract the patch from the mail and apply it manually with patch -l or --ignore-whitespace. (see the patch

Re: [Emc-users] Strange MDI.

2010-03-04 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
Jan de Kruyf pravi: Slavko I like to do that, but I do not think it is advisable. It will be too easy to make the mess bigger. Rather wait for Jeff to see if he cant sort his patch generation life will be much easier that way. What is you computer experience?? j. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at

Re: [Emc-users] Accuracy stability of those AMT103 capacitive encoders

2010-03-04 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:36:44PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote: What does this time constant actually mean? Is is a response to changes in velocity? That seems to be the only thing I can figure out it means. If EMC is sampling position at 1 ms intervals, then 400 us is 2.5 time constants,

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-gcode throughput

2010-03-04 Thread Rudy du Preez
I have a general question about the throughput of EMC2 and what determines it. I friend is using nurb modeling to describe the shapes that he has to mill in soft material. So far he has had disappointing results using EMC2 in that the processing of the large gcode files with many short vectors and

Re: [Emc-users] Accuracy stability of those AMT103 capacitive encoders

2010-03-04 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:57:32PM +0100, Sven Wesley wrote: If you really want to read some experienced info on the AMT's, look up my killer thread in the mail archive. Search for Engrave.py cuts deeper and deeper. Enjoy. Conclusion: The AMT's do the work when other encoders fail. That was

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-gcode throughput

2010-03-04 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
Rudy du Preez pravi: I have a general question about the throughput of EMC2 and what determines it. I friend is using nurb modeling to describe the shapes that he has to mill in soft material. So far he has had disappointing results using EMC2 in that the processing of the large gcode files

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-gcode throughput

2010-03-04 Thread Sven Wesley
2010/3/4 Rudy du Preez r...@asmsa.co.za I have a general question about the throughput of EMC2 and what determines it. I friend is using nurb modeling to describe the shapes that he has to mill in soft material. So far he has had disappointing results using EMC2 in that the processing of the

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-gcode throughput

2010-03-04 Thread Jeff Epler
I wrote a message about this some time ago, but its contents are still essentially accurate: http://mid.gmane.org/20081022160842.ga6...@unpythonic.net When converting complex curves like nurbs into gcode, the relevant behavior of the motion planner is this: | Make sure moves are long enough

Re: [Emc-users] Accuracy stability of those AMT103 capacitive encoders

2010-03-04 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:57:32PM +0100, Sven Wesley wrote: If you really want to read some experienced info on the AMT's, look up my killer thread in the mail archive. Search for Engrave.py cuts deeper and deeper. Enjoy. Conclusion: The AMT's do the work when other encoders fail. Sven,

Re: [Emc-users] Accuracy stability of those AMT103 capacitive encoders

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Erik Christiansen wrote: [snip] I'm grateful though, even for that 14th post, because there you say I've mounted a new CUI differential encoder ... The Digi-Key part 102-1788-ND, nominated on another thread, is TTL voltage output. (Perhaps that's what the -ND means.) At Digi-Key, -ND

Re: [Emc-users] Magnetic Encoder

2010-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Dave wrote: It is interesting how things change. Way back in early 70's there was a Hamilton Avnet office not far from my parents house. Being a kid interested in electronics I would literally ride my bike to the Hamilton Avnet office and order parts and pay cash for

Re: [Emc-users] Strange MDI.

2010-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 March 2010, Slavko Kocjancic wrote: Hello... Again I can't aply that patch Here is console output sla...@emc2-laptop:~$ cd emc2-dev sla...@emc2-laptop:~/emc2-dev$ git am --signoff smdi.eml Applying Strange MDI. .dotest/patch:10: trailing whitespace. static int

Re: [Emc-users] Accuracy stability of those AMT103 capacitive encoders

2010-03-04 Thread Sven Wesley
2010/3/4 Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:57:32PM +0100, Sven Wesley wrote: If you really want to read some experienced info on the AMT's, look up my killer thread in the mail archive. Search for Engrave.py cuts deeper and deeper. Enjoy. Conclusion:

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-gcode throughput

2010-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 March 2010, Rudy du Preez wrote: I have a general question about the throughput of EMC2 and what determines it. I friend is using nurb modeling to describe the shapes that he has to mill in soft material. So far he has had disappointing results using EMC2 in that the processing of

[Emc-users] Jog button issue

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Keeton
All, I am wanting to hook up my jog buttons for manual jogging in tkemc. I have two buttons for each axis (Plus and Minus). I had these working before I installed an MPG unit but now they are not working. What are the signals/pins required to jog an axis through halui? Do I have to

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-gcode throughput

2010-03-04 Thread Rudy du Preez
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Re: [Emc-users] Strange MDI.

2010-03-04 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
Slavko Kocjancic pravi: 2010/3/4 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com mailto:gene.hesk...@gmail.com On Thursday 04 March 2010, Slavko Kocjancic wrote: Hello... Again I can't aply that patch Here is console output sla...@emc2-laptop:~$ cd emc2-dev

Re: [Emc-users] Advice on Servo Tuning

2010-03-04 Thread Flying Electron Inc
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Chris Morley wrote: The servo drives are from Advanced Motion Controls. They are Direct PWM Brushless DC Servo Drives Model# BD30A8. The datasheet can be read at http://www.a-m-c.com/download/datasheet/bd30a8.pdf .

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-gcode throughput

2010-03-04 Thread Jon Elson
Rudy du Preez wrote: Has anybody been working on the limited throughput situation? Going to hardware step generation is definitely moving in the right direction. I did some tests a while back, on a 600 MHz Pentium III computer. I made a 2 diameter circle in 10,000 line segments. With the

Re: [Emc-users] Accuracy stability of those AMT103 capacitive encoders

2010-03-04 Thread Jon Elson
Erik Christiansen wrote: That's very comforting for me, but perhaps your customer is/was trying to push peas up too steep a hill. I believe that customer was off his rocker, but he wanted to try this. It was a petty small machine, a Taig, and he was wanting to get 10s of G's

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-gcode throughput

2010-03-04 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 12:41 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: Rudy du Preez wrote: Has anybody been working on the limited throughput situation? Going to hardware step generation is definitely moving in the right direction. I did some tests a while back, on a 600 MHz Pentium III computer. I

[Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Connector

2010-03-04 Thread Kirk Wallace
I've got my encoders from Avnet (AEAT-6010): http://wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/EMC2/absolute_encoder/ but now I need to figure out how to connect to them. I figured I could get by for now with soldering wires to the back of the PC board, but there is no way, it's way to small. So I need to

Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Connector

2010-03-04 Thread Flying Electron Inc
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.comwrote: I've got my encoders from Avnet (AEAT-6010): http://wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/EMC2/absolute_encoder/ but now I need to figure out how to connect to them. I figured I could get by for now with soldering wires

Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Connector

2010-03-04 Thread John Harris
Hi Kirk, Try Samtec at http://www.samtec.com/documents/webfiles/pdf/FTSH_TH.PDF They only do dual row headers, and they also do ribbon cable connectors to match. You can get free samples if you find your way to their Sudden Service page. I f you can tell me exactly the row and

Re: [Emc-users] Absolute Encoder Connector

2010-03-04 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:13 -0700, John Harris wrote: Hi Kirk, Try Samtec at http://www.samtec.com/documents/webfiles/pdf/FTSH_TH.PDF They only do dual row headers, and they also do ribbon cable connectors to match. You can get free samples if you find your way to their

[Emc-users] How EMC face with the chanllege of hard platform development? (muti-core, 64 bit processor etc)

2010-03-04 Thread 夏一宁
hi all, Ijust have a question,since emc is on base of orgin 32 system.But now with improvement of technology,can emc fully take advantage of them? RCS is a good idea for hierarchy control,and I just see some implementation of communication between processes (one computer),or different

[Emc-users] mux

2010-03-04 Thread Dave Keeton
All, Quick question - If I am using more than one mux (2 for example) , would I do it like this? #Basic example of use loadrt mux2 count=2 addf mux2.0 servo-thread #The first mux setp mux2.0.in0 25 setp mux2.0.in1 100 #The second mux setp mux2.1.in0 25 setp mux2.1.in1 100 I am

Re: [Emc-users] mux

2010-03-04 Thread Stuart Stevenson
You want to add another line On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Dave Keeton pkeet...@woh.rr.com wrote: All, Quick question - If I am using more than one mux (2 for example) , would I do it like this? #Basic example of use loadrt mux2 count=2 addf mux2.0 servo-thread add the

Re: [Emc-users] mux

2010-03-04 Thread Dave Keeton
Thanks for your reply What exactly does the addf mux2.1 servo-thread do for us, is it required for my situation? What if I add more mux's? Does that line change again or do I add another? Is there a limit to the number of mux's we can use? Dave Keeton Technical Services Manager The Eagle

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-gcode throughput

2010-03-04 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: I looked at Jan's example of what he might be converting: http://www.starragheckert.com/sh/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=89Itemid=197 (Short URL) http://alturl.com/87gd http://www.manturbo.com/en/ I wondered if block rate would be a problem with a

Re: [Emc-users] mux

2010-03-04 Thread Stuart Stevenson
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dave Keeton pkeet...@woh.rr.com wrote: Thanks for your reply What exactly does the addf mux2.1 servo-thread this line adds the mux2.1 to the the servo-thread this causes it to be executed at the servo-thread rate do for us, is it required for my

Re: [Emc-users] mux

2010-03-04 Thread Dave Keeton
Thanks again Stuart. Dave Keeton Technical Services Manager The Eagle Tool Machine Co. Springfield, Ohio -- From: Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 9:53 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-gcode throughput

2010-03-04 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 20:52 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: ... snip more resources than a 3-axis program, but the super-hard stuff they usually make these parts out of are not machined at high feed rates. A ... snip This one's pretty quick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LCaRqQ8Qf8 -- Kirk

Re: [Emc-users] mux

2010-03-04 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 21:44 -0500, Dave Keeton wrote: Thanks for your reply What exactly does the addf mux2.1 servo-thread do for us, is it required for my situation? What if I add more mux's? Does that line change again or do I add another? Is there a limit to the number of

Re: [Emc-users] Strange MDI.

2010-03-04 Thread Slavko Kocjancic
Jeff Epler pravi: Which version of emc are you testing with? This behavior is buggy in 2.3, but in v2.4_branch and master there's a change that is intended to improve or fix this problem: commit 314f3aa2d90e5ec1f7840166f3e0ad11a9fbc0a6 Author: Jeff Epler jep...@unpythonic.net Date: Wed