Re: [Emc-users] compiling hidcomp

2011-03-05 Thread lloyd wilson
On 03/04/2011 08:52 PM, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: That's in there because I do 95% of my development on Windows. I usually develop stuff on windows then move it across to linux when it's almost done. I still haven't found a development environment I like. (tried eclipse, qtcreator, but have

Re: [Emc-users] Video showing all that my mill does, including W axis

2011-03-05 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
Igor, It's been as fun watching your machine come to life as it was watching Sam's! Good on both of ya, and thanks for allowing us to watch!!! Mark On 3/4/2011 9:48 PM, sam sokolik wrote: awesome! sam On 03/04/2011 08:38 PM, Igor Chudov wrote: I embedded my video on this page:

Re: [Emc-users] W axis working! One problem remains, residual current to the motor.

2011-03-05 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
On 3/4/2011 11:07 PM, gene heskett wrote: Always assume a job will come up that needs more travel! Yes Jon, I believe there is a corollary about that someplace in the Murphy's laws collections I've seen. If not, it certainly needs adding because its a basic truth. Unforch, I do not have

Re: [Emc-users] W axis working! One problem remains, residual current to the motor.

2011-03-05 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
On 3/5/2011 12:05 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: the corollary is relevant no matter the size of the machine with 200 inches X travel on the 5 axis bridge one of the first three jobs was 220 inches long we had to slide a part to machine the whole thing See Gene? Toldja so... ;-) Mark

Re: [Emc-users] Video showing all that my mill does, including W axis

2011-03-05 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, March 05, 2011 08:20:20 am Edward Bernard did opine: Here's a good source for toroids, Gene: http://www.antekinc.com/ That looks like decent pricing too, even for the raw supplies. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

Re: [Emc-users] W axis working! One problem remains, residual current to the motor.

2011-03-05 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, March 05, 2011 08:30:13 am Mark Wendt (Contractor) did opine: On 3/5/2011 12:05 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: the corollary is relevant no matter the size of the machine with 200 inches X travel on the 5 axis bridge one of the first three jobs was 220 inches long we had to

Re: [Emc-users] Video showing all that my mill does, including W axis

2011-03-05 Thread John Thornton
I got one from them for my plasma and have been using it for the last few years. I'm happy with it... John gene heskett wrote: On Saturday, March 05, 2011 08:20:20 am Edward Bernard did opine: Here's a good source for toroids, Gene: http://www.antekinc.com/ That looks like

[Emc-users] Back to Heekscad, cause its 3d.

2011-03-05 Thread gene heskett
Trying to run it in cli mode by using the lower left window for data entry. First I drew the stick ok, starting with a 0,0,0 anchor point. Then I tried to add the tenon on the end, and discovered the anchor point of 0,0,0 cannot be edited. So I figured what the hell, make it project from the

Re: [Emc-users] Video showing all that my mill does, including W axis

2011-03-05 Thread Igor Chudov
Thank you! On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Mark Wendt (Contractor) mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil wrote: Igor, It's been as fun watching your machine come to life as it was watching Sam's! Good on both of ya, and thanks for allowing us to watch!!! Mark On 3/4/2011 9:48 PM, sam sokolik wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Video showing all that my mill does, including W axis

2011-03-05 Thread D C
Thanks for the inspiration and well documented projects Igor. I haven't seen all the pages on your site yet but I definitely will. Your son gave me a good chuckle too, I would be pretty proud and fascinated if I were him. Thank for showing me new limits of the possible. Bruce --- On

Re: [Emc-users] Error Unknown

2011-03-05 Thread Doug
Does anyone know what this error is? I have a message that just came up. Can't do that (Emc_Task_Plan-run) in auto mode with the interpreter waiting. Loaded a new gcode one that have loaded before and this error appeared once I ran the program. Now if I run any program the machine feeds

Re: [Emc-users] Error Unknown

2011-03-05 Thread Dave
I've seen that error before and I think it is because you do not have an end statement at the end of your Gcode or something like that. Or perhaps you tried to do something while the code was still running and it wasn't allowed. I have no explanation for the slow movement. Dave On 3/5/2011

Re: [Emc-users] Video showing all that my mill does, including W axis

2011-03-05 Thread Jon Elson
Igor Chudov wrote: I got this toroid from digikey. Yes, my son Mouser will order you anything from the Hammond Transformer catalog with quantity = one. They are not cheap, but you can get up to 1800 VA, I think. Jon

Re: [Emc-users] W axis working! One problem remains, residual current to the motor.

2011-03-05 Thread Jon Elson
Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: On 3/4/2011 11:07 PM, gene heskett wrote: Always assume a job will come up that needs more travel! Yes Jon, I believe there is a corollary about that someplace in the Murphy's laws collections I've seen. If not, it certainly needs adding because

Re: [Emc-users] Video showing all that my mill does, including W axis

2011-03-05 Thread Igor Chudov
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Igor Chudov wrote: I got this toroid from digikey. Yes, my son Mouser will order you anything from the Hammond Transformer catalog with quantity = one. They are not cheap, but you can get up to 1800 VA, I

Re: [Emc-users] Back to Heekscad, cause its 3d.

2011-03-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/5/2011 9:49 AM, gene heskett wrote: Trying to run it in cli mode by using the lower left window for data entry. First I drew the stick ok, starting with a 0,0,0 anchor point. Then I tried to add the tenon on the end, and discovered the anchor point of 0,0,0 cannot be edited. So I

Re: [Emc-users] compiling hidcomp

2011-03-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/4/2011 8:52 PM, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: That's [speaking of an ifdef _WIN32 construction in Frank's code] in there because I do 95% of my development on Windows. I usually develop stuff on windows then move it across to linux when it's almost done. I still haven't found a development

Re: [Emc-users] Error Unknown

2011-03-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 March 2011 16:57, Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: I have no explanation for the slow movement. Pressed 1 by accident? (Don't ask me how I know) You get that error if you try to call an MDI command in auto, I think. -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of

Re: [Emc-users] Video showing all that my mill does, including W axis

2011-03-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 March 2011 02:38, Igor Chudov ichu...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.chudov.com/projects/Bridgeport-Series-II-Interact-2-CNC-Mill/ Seems you have a Garage Elf too. They can be quite handy if you have a machine with no power feeds. I recall acting as such when I was 7, I had to stand on a

Re: [Emc-users] W axis working! One problem remains, residual current to the motor.

2011-03-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/4/2011 8:31 AM, Igor Chudov wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/4/11, Igor Chudovichu...@gmail.com wrote: I re-wrote Andy's function to compare the absolute value of the diff, and compare that to 1E-07. I know that this is

Re: [Emc-users] VFD's and Modbus

2011-03-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 09:59 +0100, Michael Haberler wrote: I did the Modbus driver for the Toshiba VFS11 VFD: http://git.mah.priv.at/gitweb/vfs11-vfd.git what's the snag? have a look at the makefile, I didnt use comp at all -Michael Michael, oops, your reply got buried. I finally did

Re: [Emc-users] compiling hidcomp

2011-03-05 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I'm guessing you are building on Ubuntu 10. Hidcomp was last built and released on Ubuntu 8 (binaries tested on 10) To build on Ubuntu 10... Add to include/datatypes.h #include sys/types.h And in hid/lcddataformatter.cpp, add #include stdio.h #include stdarg.h The next release will be built

[Emc-users] PC conversion of Bendix 5M refridgerator

2011-03-05 Thread Dom Francis
Buon Giorno Signore's; could the staff briefly explain how best to submit questions ?. grazie, 4 flute -- What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN

[Emc-users] log in name change

2011-03-05 Thread Dom Francis
Buon Giorn Signore's; just realized that a mistake was made in submitting our log in or user name. when we registered at SourceForge we used :fourflute, since they req a letter at the beginning of the user name and no spaces. guess we 'spaced-out' when entering our user name at your site.

Re: [Emc-users] Back to Heekscad, cause its 3d.

2011-03-05 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, March 05, 2011 07:51:58 pm Kent A. Reed did opine: On 3/5/2011 9:49 AM, gene heskett wrote: Trying to run it in cli mode by using the lower left window for data entry. First I drew the stick ok, starting with a 0,0,0 anchor point. Then I tried to add the tenon on the

Re: [Emc-users] compiling hidcomp

2011-03-05 Thread lloyd wilson
On 03/05/2011 06:17 PM, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: I'm guessing you are building on Ubuntu 10. Hidcomp was last built and released on Ubuntu 8 (binaries tested on 10) To build on Ubuntu 10... Add to include/datatypes.h #includesys/types.h And in hid/lcddataformatter.cpp, add