Re: [Emc-users] 5 -axis XYZAC kinematics

2011-05-16 Thread Rudy du Preez
I have finished testing the 5-axis XYZAC kinematics I was developing. A zipped tar file containing the C-code, a VISMACH simulation model of my HERMLE milling machine, the ini and hal files and a sample GCODE program has been sent to Chris Radek for checking and uploading to EMC files if he is

Re: [Emc-users] Euler's Zyz angles in kinematics

2011-05-16 Thread Jan de Kruyf
google is your friend! http://www.eetimes.com/design/embedded/4007177/Doing-C-code-unit-testing-on-a-shoestring-Part-1-The-basics-and-the-tools Dont go all the way to town like this guy. Just think of a clever way of feeding test data into your routine. Even write an extra routine that calls the

Re: [Emc-users] Euler's Zyz angles in kinematics

2011-05-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/15/2011 3:12 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: Hello! I am trying to develop kinematics module and I think that Euler's Zyz angles would be very appropriate to represent joints' positions. And for that I want to use Zyz to Rpy convertion in forward kins and Rpy to Zyz convertion in inverse

Re: [Emc-users] CNC on fedora 14

2011-05-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/15/2011 7:25 PM, Devel wrote: Hello, I am trying to install EMC on fedora, but not seems easy. First at all seems that kernel is already realtime: https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page But EMC requires RTAI. When I try to install RTAI lib patches are too old for fedora 14

Re: [Emc-users] Euler's Zyz angles in kinematics

2011-05-16 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/5/16 Jan de Kruyf jan.de.kr...@gmail.com: google is your friend! Thanks, but unfortunately I am not a friend of programming :)) 2011/5/16 Kent A. Reed knbr...@erols.com: Whenever I get unphysically large results I suspect I'm trying to divide by zero or close to it, but it's hard to

Re: [Emc-users] CNC on fedora 14

2011-05-16 Thread jros
I would like to add, that for testing purposes you can run EMC without RTAI using any kernel. Just compile it with --enable-simulator. Finding out the needed dependencies should be fairly easy in this case. In my experience everything works, even HAL, creating new hal modules, but interacting

Re: [Emc-users] Euler's Zyz angles in kinematics

2011-05-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/16/2011 9:25 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2011/5/16 Jan de Kruyfjan.de.kr...@gmail.com: google is your friend! Thanks, but unfortunately I am not a friend of programming :)) 2011/5/16 Kent A. Reedknbr...@erols.com: Whenever I get unphysically large results I suspect I'm trying to divide

[Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread Tom Easterday
I am running a job for a friend and I have a bunch of circular toolpaths which spiral down to form a cone. One row of these holes is about 27,000 line of gcode. I am noticing that as it runs it seems to have reached the maximum number of paths it can color (or something like that), as it is

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/5/16 Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu: I am running a job for a friend and I have a bunch of circular toolpaths which spiral down to form a cone.  One row of these holes is about 27,000 line of gcode.  I am noticing that as it runs it seems to have reached the maximum number of paths it

Re: [Emc-users] CNC on fedora 14

2011-05-16 Thread Jon Elson
Kent A. Reed wrote: As for PREEMPT_RT, I have no idea whether it gives acceptable real-time performance, has an acceptable API, or is easy/hard to connect to EMC2 code. Perhaps some of the core developers can comment. From reading the RTAI list, I think the answer is no. Prempt_RT is

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, May 16, 2011 11:44:27 AM Tom Easterday did opine: I am running a job for a friend and I have a bunch of circular toolpaths which spiral down to form a cone. One row of these holes is about 27,000 line of gcode. Yikes! I am far from a gcode expert, but that fairly screams for a

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:43:47PM +0300, Viesturs L??cis wrote: AFAIK that is the feature, which helps preventing overload of CPU and thus affecting realtime performance. I think it is better to have some lines not painted as You want rather than get ruined part. This is close to the right

[Emc-users] Joints_axes branch

2011-05-16 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello! I would appreciate, if any knowledgeable person could help me clarify 2 questions: 1) what is current situation with joint vs world limits? 2) and more importantly - how many joints are allowed? Viesturs --

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread Tom Easterday
Thanks for all the info. It isn't a problem at all, I was just curious if it was a bug or not. Yes, the gcode could be optimized, but it is a one-off with the gcode is coming out of a cam program so that isn't in the $0 budget :-) -Tom On May 16, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Chris Radek wrote: On

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes branch

2011-05-16 Thread Michał Geszkiewicz
W dniu 16.05.2011 20:01, Viesturs Lācis pisze: Hello! I would appreciate, if any knowledgeable person could help me clarify 2 questions: 1) what is current situation with joint vs world limits? 2) and more importantly - how many joints are allowed? Hello still up to 9 joints. Current state

Re: [Emc-users] CNC on fedora 14

2011-05-16 Thread Michael Büsch
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 11:01 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: Kent A. Reed wrote: As for PREEMPT_RT, I have no idea whether it gives acceptable real-time performance, has an acceptable API, or is easy/hard to connect to EMC2 code. Perhaps some of the core developers can comment. From

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes branch

2011-05-16 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/5/17 Michał Geszkiewicz mic...@wp.pl: still up to 9 joints. Thanks! Are there any options to control more than 9 joints with help of classic ladder? What I need is to control a production line: 1) control 3 tools, each moved in interpolated motion along 2 coordinates, thus total of 6

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes branch

2011-05-16 Thread Dave
If you can create the stepgen and a few other components you can go beyond the interpreter limit. This is not really an X axis although I used the X axis values out of the INI file (Axis_0 - not necessary).This axis is not connected to the interpreter. It is driven by CL. Everything

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:06:06PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: My fuss about 2.4.6 is that since I am using (MSG,) and M pauses in my current setup while carving mortise and tenons joints, is that the MSG printouts SHOULD be restricted in space to only cover the listing window. As is, by