Re: [Emc-users] all those who thirst knowledge.

2011-10-11 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I opened the first pdf and it has an article on pid tuning. It suggests applying a square wave command and tuning from that. How hard is it to generate a square wave in emc? Will this require hal trickery or can it be done with GCode? -Original Message- From: Jan de Kruyf

Re: [Emc-users] all those who thirst knowledge.

2011-10-11 Thread Jan de Kruyf
Frank, I have a little thing called a battery-box, that I build years ago (exept it has not got a battery, it just hooks in the +-15V of the drive). In any case its sole purpose is to generate a square wave with a sufficiently slow period that the table moves while I can observe the result on an

Re: [Emc-users] 1

2011-10-11 Thread Peter Blodow
So far, this person (?) has only mailed twice, no real contributions, just spam. In such cases, the most efficient thing to do is to cancel or kick him out and watch him reappear or complain, if he is a real list follower. Peter andy pugh schrieb: On 11 October 2011 00:31, lode leroy

Re: [Emc-users] OT: drilling square holes

2011-10-11 Thread Viesturs Lācis
On 2011. gada 30. Sep. 21:17, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 September 2011 20:02, Roland Jollivet roland.jolli...@gmail.com wrote: Thought this may be of interest.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9wfgpqs2dE You can do that in EMC2 without special tools:

Re: [Emc-users] OT: drilling square holes

2011-10-11 Thread andy pugh
On 11 October 2011 11:25, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Andy, today in university I found out that Your video is used for educational purposes. If I had known that I would have set the diameter more accurately and made a better hex :-) -- atp Torque wrenches are for the

Re: [Emc-users] all those who thirst knowledge.

2011-10-11 Thread andy pugh
On 11 October 2011 07:15, Frank Tkalcevic fr...@franksworkshop.com.au wrote: I opened the first pdf and it has an article on pid tuning.  It suggests applying a square wave command and tuning from that.  How hard is it to generate a square wave in emc?  Will this require hal trickery or can it

Re: [Emc-users] How to run file?

2011-10-11 Thread John Thornton
There are examples of this and other buttons on the forum in the Hal Examples section. John On 10/10/2011 10:20 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: Hello, gentlemen! I have an urgent question: How can I make EMC to run opened g-code file, when certain input pin goes true? I tried linking that input

Re: [Emc-users] OT: drilling square holes

2011-10-11 Thread Mark Cason
On 10/11/2011 05:33 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 11 October 2011 11:25, Viesturs Lācisviesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Andy, today in university I found out that Your video is used for educational purposes. If I had known that I would have set the diameter more accurately and made a better hex

Re: [Emc-users] all those who thirst knowledge.

2011-10-11 Thread s...@highlab.com
Chris taught me to tune emc2 axes with motion provided by gcode. Set your following error sloppy enough to let your machine run untuned, but tight enough that if it runs away emc will stop it. Run axis (or your gui of choice), run halcmd (for interactively setting pid gains), run halscope

Re: [Emc-users] all those who thirst knowledge.

2011-10-11 Thread sam sokolik
The only thing I would add - set G61 (exact stop mode) to be sure emc is using the max acceleration in the ini. (Thanks ChrisR for pointing that out). sam On 10/11/2011 9:52 AM, s...@highlab.com wrote: Chris taught me to tune emc2 axes with motion provided by gcode. Set your following

Re: [Emc-users] OT: drilling square holes

2011-10-11 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/10/11 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 11 October 2011 11:25, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Andy, today in university I found out that Your video is used for educational purposes. If I had known that I would have set the diameter more accurately and made a better hex

Re: [Emc-users] OT: drilling square holes

2011-10-11 Thread andy pugh
On 11 October 2011 15:33, Mark Cason farmerboy1...@yahoo.com wrote:   Andy, I gotta ask.. how many counts is your encoder?  More specifically, how fine does an encoder need to be, to do what you do. The lathe encoder is 400 counts (100 slots) and the milling encoder is 200 counts (50 slots).

Re: [Emc-users] all those who thirst knowledge.

2011-10-11 Thread Jon Elson
Frank Tkalcevic wrote: I opened the first pdf and it has an article on pid tuning. It suggests applying a square wave command and tuning from that. How hard is it to generate a square wave in emc? Will this require hal trickery or can it be done with GCode? Yes, there is a hal component

Re: [Emc-users] all those who thirst knowledge.

2011-10-11 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 12:41 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: Frank Tkalcevic wrote: I opened the first pdf and it has an article on pid tuning. It suggests applying a square wave command and tuning from that. How hard is it to generate a square wave in emc? Will this require hal trickery or can

Re: [Emc-users] all those who thirst knowledge.

2011-10-11 Thread Jan de Kruyf
It seems to me that an external square signal might cause an overly aggressive acceleration. Only when you want to impress the neighbours with a shaking building . . . A few millivolt of signal at about 50 Hz or so, depending on the bandwidth of the system, is enough. Just check at a slightly

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port Utility

2011-10-11 Thread doug metzler
Hey Kirk, did you ever go anywhere with this? Thanks, DougM On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:04 AM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:03:31 PM doug metzler did opine: 1) loopback test to confirm that the port is actually working?  Esp. if it would report

[Emc-users] inverted text

2011-10-11 Thread Cristian Ruiz
inverted image and text also anyone know why or where the problem? -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats,

Re: [Emc-users] inverted text

2011-10-11 Thread marc foster
Christian, it could be that you need to invert the axis. You could do this in the configuration wizard on the setup page for pinouts. I think that there is a checkbox labeled 'invert' Marc On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Cristian Ruiz contacto_ru...@yahoo.com.arwrote: inverted image and

Re: [Emc-users] inverted text

2011-10-11 Thread andy pugh
On 11 October 2011 23:50, Cristian Ruiz contacto_ru...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: inverted image and text also anyone know why or where the problem? Which image, which text? Is this a screen problem or a machine problem? -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise