Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders. (Peter Blodow)

2012-01-08 Thread Lester Caine
Peter Blodow wrote: I don't know how my name came into the header of this thread. I do have a rotary table, sure, but I never mentioned it on this list. I made it mainly as an exercise in aluminum casting. On the long run, I want to attach a stepper motor to the worm shaft, but that will take

[Emc-users] Commanded positions

2012-01-08 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I was wondering how I could get the commanded positions, meaning the commanded positions from Gcode, and show them on the GUI. In the code for AXIS GUI it says we could read it from emc.stat.position, but I think this is not a correct statement. The actual positions is read

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders. (Peter Blodow)

2012-01-08 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 08, 2012 08:39:42 AM Lester Caine did opine: Peter Blodow wrote: I don't know how my name came into the header of this thread. I do have a rotary table, sure, but I never mentioned it on this list. I made it mainly as an exercise in aluminum casting. On the long run, I

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders. (Peter Blodow)

2012-01-08 Thread andy pugh
On 8 January 2012 14:02, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Because the coupling is replacing the handwheel, its placement controls the end play of the worm too I still am not sure which rotary he was on about, but as the title refers to encoders, and I started that thread with a video of my

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-08 Thread Joachim Franek
From: kontaktspray.hu/?download=A-20_TDS_EN.pdf A temperature treatment of the lacquer at 190°C will result in durable inscriptions or graphics having a blackish- brown color Someone has tried this? Joachim --

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-08 Thread andy pugh
On 8 January 2012 14:59, Joachim Franek joachim.fra...@pibf.de wrote: A temperature treatment of the lacquer at 190°C will result in durable inscriptions or graphics having a blackish- brown color It is worth remembering, though in my case I was much more concerned about reflectivity than

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-08 Thread Peter Blodow
I have been experimenting with copper in order to make durable memorial signs. I treat a polished piece of sheet copper (or thicker) just like a PCB: degrease, spray photoresist, expose with laser printer foil on it to UV lamp, develop in 0.8% NaOH solution, etch in concentrated FeCl3

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 15:53 +, andy pugh wrote: On 8 January 2012 14:59, Joachim Franek joachim.fra...@pibf.de wrote: A temperature treatment of the lacquer at 190°C will result in durable inscriptions or graphics having a blackish- brown color It is worth remembering, though in my

Re: [Emc-users] Commanded positions

2012-01-08 Thread Jon Elson
Farzin Kamangar wrote: Dear EMC users, I was wondering how I could get the commanded positions, meaning the commanded positions from Gcode, and show them on the GUI. The @ key toggles between commanded and actual position display on the 3D window's DRO values. The # key toggles between

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-08 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: It seems to me, a custom method of burning a CD might work. I would think very fine lines could be made. Another idea might be to have glass disks aluminum coated as is done for telescope mirrors and either etch or burn lines in that. I Could use 3 diameter encoder wheels,

[Emc-users] Hal Configuration available outside of axis?

2012-01-08 Thread Karl Cunningham
Can the hal configuration display in Axis (the one selected from the Machine menu) be used stand-alone? I'm using halmeter but like Axis' configuration display a bit better. TIA. Karl Cunningham -- Ridiculously easy

Re: [Emc-users] OT: HDMI to VGA Was RE: Ideal Atom?

2012-01-08 Thread Dave
On 1/7/2012 6:47 PM, Ben Jackson wrote: On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 11:37:17PM +, andy pugh wrote: HDMI to DVI-D should be easy then, and I would much rather drive an LCD with DVI than pretend it has a raster and send VGA. Yes, if you want DVI-D (for LCD) then HDMI is just a

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders. (Peter Blodow)

2012-01-08 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 08, 2012 02:49:34 PM andy pugh did opine: On 8 January 2012 14:02, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Because the coupling is replacing the handwheel, its placement controls the end play of the worm too I still am not sure which rotary he was on about, but as the

Re: [Emc-users] An alternative way to make encoders.

2012-01-08 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 08, 2012 03:10:16 PM Kirk Wallace did opine: On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 15:53 +, andy pugh wrote: On 8 January 2012 14:59, Joachim Franek joachim.fra...@pibf.de wrote: A temperature treatment of the lacquer at 190آ°C will result in durable inscriptions or graphics

[Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-08 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: Recently, I wrote... I just ran 15-minute latency tests on my ASUS AT5NM10-I board (which is equipped with an Intel Atom D510 cpu) first with a stock boot and then with isolcpus=1 as a boot parameter. I've posted my results in the table on the Wiki. In brief, isolating

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-08 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 08, 2012 07:25:36 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: Gentle persons: Recently, I wrote... I just ran 15-minute latency tests on my ASUS AT5NM10-I board (which is equipped with an Intel Atom D510 cpu) first with a stock boot and then with isolcpus=1 as a boot parameter. I've

Re: [Emc-users] Hal Configuration available outside of axis?

2012-01-08 Thread Dewey Garrett
halshow.tcl is a tcl script, it doesn't seem to be set up currently to run as a executable but you can do it as follows from the command line: For a RIP build: $ cd your_build_directory $ source scripts/emc-environment $ $EMC2_HOME/tcl/bin/halshow.tcl For an installed package:

Re: [Emc-users] ur steppers

2012-01-08 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 08, 2012 07:36:21 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/7/2012 8:48 PM, gene heskett wrote: On Saturday, January 07, 2012 08:40:23 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/5/2012 8:46 PM, gene heskett wrote: Where can I find some real docs on this isolcpu thingy? Gene:

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-08 Thread Jon Elson
Kent A. Reed wrote: possible even install RTAI and EMC2 over a Ubuntu server distribution to avoid the Gnome/X-server stuff altogether, since there's the usual niff-naff about booting Ubuntu desktop edition without a monitor attached, etc. I have a non-EMC project where I run an EMC-Live

Re: [Emc-users] Commanded positions

2012-01-08 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear Jon, Thanks for your reply. The machine and workpiece coordinates are called Machine and Relative positions. I am talking about the Actual and Commanded positions which you can choose with the @ key. The problem is that the commanded position is not right, but the actual position is

Re: [Emc-users] running headless on my ASUS AT5NM10-I MB (Intel Atom D510 cpu)

2012-01-08 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I use a D945GSEJT (single core atom 1.6GHz) in that kind of configuration - I've disabled X11, so I always boot to a command prompt. I have a KVM if I need it. Jitter - 6873/6755. When running a desktop it glitches to about 15000. I still haven't removed all unnecessary daemons. My plan is to