Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 14.01.12 23:25, gene heskett wrote: But what I now see in the strace output is a fail of a FUTEX that could have been there all along, whatever the heck that futex is. Well, t'aint so different from a mutex (which is just a semaphore, or mutual exclusion flag, normally used by threads

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 04:09:35 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: On 14.01.12 23:25, gene heskett wrote: But what I now see in the strace output is a fail of a FUTEX that could have been there all along, whatever the heck that futex is. Well, t'aint so different from a mutex (which is

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port not working

2012-01-15 Thread Bob von Knobloch
On 14/01/12 18:57, Kent A. Reed wrote: Bob: Maybe I'm misreading this but you seem to be saying that the parallel port works fine with EMC2 (ptest.hal ptest.xml work fine). If that is so, then the problem lies in your (new) configuration. You can nail this diagnosis by loading Halscope

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port not working

2012-01-15 Thread Kim Kirwan
Hi Bob, Could you have a mixed-case problem? I'll paste some lines from your files below: net Xstep = stepgen.0.step vs. net xstep = parport.0.pin-03-out and net Xdir = stepgen.0.dir vs. net xdir = parport.0.pin-02-out Y and Z step/dir are the same. I stopped looking at that point. Kim

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: Hi all; I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this visolate.jar to do something even if it was to tell me to go away. What I was doing was looking at the strace output for the first instance of each library etc that it

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port not working

2012-01-15 Thread Bob von Knobloch
On 15/01/12 12:34, Kim Kirwan wrote: Hi Bob, Could you have a mixed-case problem? I'll paste some lines from your files below: net Xstep = stepgen.0.step vs. net xstep = parport.0.pin-03-out and net Xdir = stepgen.0.dir vs. net xdir = parport.0.pin-02-out Y and Z step/dir are

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/15/2012 4:31 AM, gene heskett wrote: It may, when I'm awake for the day, turn out to have been the clue to find it, so don't beat yourself up about it. I find I get lost in the information overload and my eyes glaze over about the time I made the last link. Getting a fresh start on

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Peter Georgi
Hi Gene, Java is very demanding what the path of a directory tree belongs. The ClassNotFoundException is thrown when Java does not find a class, which is usaly a problem of the class path. Some way I usualy solve such a problem is to set the PATH environment variable with the proper path from the

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:59:22 AM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: Hi all; I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this visolate.jar to do something even if it was to tell me to go away. What I was doing was looking at the

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 15.01.2012 18:35, schrieb gene heskett: On Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:59:22 AM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: Hi all; I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this visolate.jar to do something even if it was to tell me to go away.

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:47:18 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/15/2012 4:31 AM, gene heskett wrote: It may, when I'm awake for the day, turn out to have been the clue to find it, so don't beat yourself up about it. I find I get lost in the information overload and my eyes glaze over

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 01:13:23 PM Peter Georgi did opine: Hi Gene, Java is very demanding what the path of a directory tree belongs. The ClassNotFoundException is thrown when Java does not find a class, which is usaly a problem of the class path. Some way I usualy solve such a

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 01:19:59 PM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 15.01.2012 18:35, schrieb gene heskett: On Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:59:22 AM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: Hi all; I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/15/2012 1:41 PM, gene heskett wrote: I also play the canary in the coal mine part on the amanda list, using a script that never forgets the many ./configure options so each succeeding alpha release is built with all the same options each time. All of this of course is my attempt to

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 02:27:41 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/15/2012 1:41 PM, gene heskett wrote: I also play the canary in the coal mine part on the amanda list, using a script that never forgets the many ./configure options so each succeeding alpha release is built with all the

[Emc-users] W axis Setup

2012-01-15 Thread Clint Washburn
Has anyone setup a lathe with a W axis. On my lathe the W axis is a Tailstock/drilling turret. I cannot seem to find any documentation on how to set this up in AXIS. From what I read so far I have to set up the ini file with [AXIS_0] through [AXIS_8] and leave the ones blank that would be

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 03:38:17 PM gene heskett did opine: On Sunday, January 15, 2012 02:27:41 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/15/2012 1:41 PM, gene heskett wrote: I also play the canary in the coal mine part on the amanda list, using a script that never forgets the many

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 15.01.2012 21:50, schrieb gene heskett: On Sunday, January 15, 2012 03:38:17 PM gene heskett did opine: I just found 2 bugs in visolate.jar 1. The F speeds output I had entered as 4.0ipm because my spindles max rpms is 2500. But it is multiplied by 60 in the gcode to F240 etc, so feed

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread andy pugh
On 15 January 2012 20:50, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Now, what do most of you folks use for converting an eagle's 'excellon' drill file to gcode? If you install Octave, you could use this that I wrote for the job: function Excellon2Gcode(filename) i = 1; C = []; f =

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/15/2012 2:48 PM, gene heskett wrote: But I cut my computer teeth on an RCA 1802 without an assembler, I looked Gene: I think I had more genuine fun with the 1802 than with any other microchip I've ever used. I still have one somewhere in my last-in-never-out stack. As for working without

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
You know you have a problem when you first have to explain what the thing was before you can explain why what you did with the thing was so cool and still you get a blank look. This perfectly sums up the loss tech dilemma :-) Nik

Re: [Emc-users] W axis Setup

2012-01-15 Thread robert
hi yes i have two lathes with W, they are real turrets W only see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swulPjzzRQA W axis screws back plot up abit when u move the W it moves the backplot screen by that ammount.. but code runs normal so just have to take that into account the backplot will not be as

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 06:35:11 PM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 15.01.2012 21:50, schrieb gene heskett: On Sunday, January 15, 2012 03:38:17 PM gene heskett did opine: I just found 2 bugs in visolate.jar 1. The F speeds output I had entered as 4.0ipm because my spindles max rpms is

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 08:51:58 PM andy pugh did opine: On 15 January 2012 20:50, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Now, what do most of you folks use for converting an eagle's 'excellon' drill file to gcode? If you install Octave, you could use this that I wrote for the job:

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 08:55:19 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/15/2012 2:48 PM, gene heskett wrote: But I cut my computer teeth on an RCA 1802 without an assembler, I looked Gene: I think I had more genuine fun with the 1802 than with any other microchip I've ever used. I still

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 09:20:33 PM Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp did opine: You know you have a problem when you first have to explain what the thing was before you can explain why what you did with the thing was so cool and still you get a blank look. This perfectly sums up the loss tech

[Emc-users] tapping problem?

2012-01-15 Thread a
Hi i there spindle motor and motor drive that can be better used for tapping? Problem with use tap is that spindle motor can easy crash tap and after that extra charge - + equipment - to remove broke tap from hole. Every one try to get max from each tap and many times tap that look good crashed