On 1/25/2012 1:11 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
> It may be annoying to know LinuxCNC works best with G-code programs
> tailored to it, but isn't this true also for other controllers?
Yes.
--
Keep Your Developer Skills Current
On 1/25/2012 12:31 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
>> since I am about 5 miles from the base a second trip would not be a
>>
> problem - if I forgot some paperwork
>
>
>
That is extremely convenient. :-)
The last two base visits I had the GL guy met me at the gate and I
followed his car b
On 01/24/2012 11:21 AM, gene heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 01:46:15 PM Rafael Skodlar did opine:
>
> [...]
>
> Chuckle, I need that this morning (morning? Duh, it's past 2pm), the 2nd
> cup hasn't kicked in yet. :(
>
> I've now been searching the package repo looking for a sed-lik
On 1/24/2012 4:52 PM, John Prentice wrote:
> On one hand I think it is unusual CNC behaviour in threading (so
> possible difficulties for CAM users without a special postprocessor).
John:
Since I haven't had the pleasure of using serious CAM software I don't
have first-hand experience with their
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Mark Cason wrote:
> On 01/23/2012 11:58 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
> > If no one on this list buys this machine I will bid on it. This machine
> is
> > on the Air Force Base. If I can, I will pick it up for anyone that buys
> it.
> > I have never been on the base
On 1/24/2012 11:34 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> Kent A. Reed wrote:
>> At best I'm a dilettante with machine tools and certainly I'm no expert
>> with a lathe. That not withstanding, long, long ago, I was taught to cut
>> a tapered thread on a manual lathe by shifting the tailstock over. It
>> seems to m
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012, at 10:02 PM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 24 January 2012 21:52, John Prentice
> wrote:
>
> > (b) For most practical tapered pipe threads no one will notice the pitch
> > error. On one hand I think it is unusual CNC behaviour in threading (so
> > possible difficulties for CAM use
Kent A. Reed wrote:
> At best I'm a dilettante with machine tools and certainly I'm no expert
> with a lathe. That not withstanding, long, long ago, I was taught to cut
> a tapered thread on a manual lathe by shifting the tailstock over. It
> seems to me this would necessarily mean the thread pi
Kirk Wallace wrote:
> Just in case, my guess is that the internal resistor was sized for
> current limiting 5 Volts, so the current would go up by around 120%
> without an external resistor, which is okay?
>
The 5 V isolated source is IN the UPC (and USC) board. It cannot be
bypassed the
way i
On 01/23/2012 11:58 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
> If no one on this list buys this machine I will bid on it. This machine is
> on the Air Force Base. If I can, I will pick it up for anyone that buys it.
> I have never been on the base before so I don't know their rules. I will
> try to find out.
>
Thanks, Andy, Kirk, John, and Steve, for the input on lathe taper
attachments. It took me a minute to realize what I was looking at but
then the light bulb turned on. Obviously, I never made it past the row
of entry-level South Bend lathes in my own work, although I was acutely
aware of the too
On 25 January 2012 00:53, gene heskett wrote:
> For the help I have received, durn tootin I'll donate. But I'd prefer you
> who are footing the bills agree
I was thinking about this while doing the dishes.
Something I have never seen is a "donate" button that shows the
current balance, and disa
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:53 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 07:50:23 PM Dave did opine:
>
> > On 1/24/2012 2:48 PM, Chris Radek wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:31:11AM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> > >> Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 07:50:23 PM Dave did opine:
> On 1/24/2012 2:48 PM, Chris Radek wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:31:11AM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> >> Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and such.
> >> It looks like PMDX gets credit for this. Thank you.
>
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:33:04 +
andy pugh wrote:
> On 24 January 2012 22:52, Kenneth Lerman
> wrote:
>
> > 4 -- Hire someone to do #2. (Don't even ask -- I have two prices
> > for my work on LinuxCNC, the first is free and you probably can't
> > afford the second.)
>
> This is the nub of th
On 24 January 2012 22:54, Steve Blackmore wrote:
> My CAM programs know this, and cut the threads accordingly -
> unfortunately they turn out wrong.
With the ability to remap G-codes which is in Master it will be
possible to re-map G33 to calculate the trigonometric correction (I
think that this
On 24 January 2012 22:52, Kenneth Lerman wrote:
> 4 -- Hire someone to do #2. (Don't even ask -- I have two prices for my
> work on LinuxCNC, the first is free and you probably can't afford the
> second.)
This is the nub of the very crux of one of the problems.
None of the people who are in a po
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 05:55:14 PM Ed Nisley did opine:
> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 00:12 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > Its doing all moves on the .bot. files
> > in negative X from the reference point
>
> I'm pretty sure there's a checkbox along the way that reads "Mirror X
> axis" to make th
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:09:34 -0500, you wrote:
>Not being able to imagine (I said limited brain, remember) how else they
>cut tapered threads on a lathe in the old days, I expect the standard
>specifications (ASME B1.20.1, fer instance) of the times would reflect this.
Hi Kent
Commercially ta
On 1/24/2012 4:52 PM, John Prentice wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Kent A. Reed"
>
>
>> Several items were called out recently as being show stoppers for
>> LinuxCNC. I do not aspire to learn the inner workings of LinuxCNC well
>> enough to contribute to discussion of the first item
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 05:34:12 PM Fox Mulder did opine:
> Am 23.01.2012 01:23, schrieb gene heskett:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > I just ran it and had it generate a bunch of stuff I copied to the
> > mill, and I recall seeing a checkmark in the setup menu that asked if
> > I wanted the bott
On 24 January 2012 21:52, John Prentice wrote:
> (b) For most practical tapered pipe threads no one will notice the pitch
> error. On one hand I think it is unusual CNC behaviour in threading (so
> possible difficulties for CAM users without a special postprocessor). But on
> the other hand the c
- Original Message -
From: "Kent A. Reed"
>
> Several items were called out recently as being show stoppers for
> LinuxCNC. I do not aspire to learn the inner workings of LinuxCNC well
> enough to contribute to discussion of the first item, "No jog on
> feedhold".
>
> However, the sec
On 1/24/2012 2:48 PM, Chris Radek wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:31:11AM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
>
>> Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and such. It
>> looks like PMDX gets credit for this. Thank you.
>>
> Nope. SWP pays for our advertisement-free hosting
On 01/24/2012 12:36 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> John Thornton wrote:
>> Why on earth would you want to close down the LinuxCNC forum and shift
>> to a commercial laden for profit forum? There is nothing more annoying
>> that waiting for all the commercials to load and clutter up your screen
>> at the zo
I entirely agree.
There is nothing wrong with the forum as it is.
The CNCZone is not open and could go to a paid subscription service in a
heartbeat.
Dave
On 1/24/2012 9:56 AM, John Thornton wrote:
> Why on earth would you want to close down the LinuxCNC forum and shift
> to a commercial laden f
On 1/24/2012 3:49 AM, Eric Keller wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Stuart Stevensonwrote:
>
>> The motor was probably removed by the same process that modified the
>>
> control boxes.
>
> That's pretty sad to see. It really looks like the whole thing has been on
> its side, and
On 24 January 2012 21:09, Kent A. Reed wrote:
> At best I'm a dilettante with machine tools and certainly I'm no expert
> with a lathe. That not withstanding, long, long ago, I was taught to cut
> a tapered thread on a manual lathe by shifting the tailstock over. It
> seems to me this would neces
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 16:09 -0500, Kent A. Reed wrote:
... snip
> how else they
> cut tapered threads on a lathe in the old days,
My guess is by using a taper attachment:
http://its.fvtc.edu/machshop2/operations/taperw_attach.htm
http://www.lathes.co.uk/hardinge/img19.gif
http://www.lathes.co.
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:48 -0600, Chris Radek wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:31:11AM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> >
> > Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and such. It
> > looks like PMDX gets credit for this. Thank you.
>
> Nope. SWP pays for our advertisement-free
Gentle persons:
Several items were called out recently as being show stoppers for
LinuxCNC. I do not aspire to learn the inner workings of LinuxCNC well
enough to contribute to discussion of the first item, "No jog on feedhold".
However, the second item "Taper thread pitches are measured along
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 11:41 -0800, steve...@newsguy.com wrote:
> >Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and such. It
> >looks like PMDX gets credit for this. Thank you.
> >--
> >Kirk Wallace
>
> Duh, well once upon a time, but not any longer.
>
> I think that credit now goes
>Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and such. It
>looks like PMDX gets credit for this. Thank you.
>--
>Kirk Wallace
Duh, well once upon a time, but not any longer.
I think that credit now goes to Stephen Willie Padnos
and DreamHost.
Perhaps you could point out the refer
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:48:08PM -0600, Chris Radek wrote:
>
> Nope. SWP pays for our advertisement-free hosting of the website, web
> forum, and wiki. He and Alex and sometimes Jeff administer it.
Replying to myself:
In trying to summarize where the dollars and sweat come from that keep
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:31:11AM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
>
> Thank goodness for the servers that host our website, wiki and such. It
> looks like PMDX gets credit for this. Thank you.
Nope. SWP pays for our advertisement-free hosting of the website, web
forum, and wiki. He and Alex and som
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 12:42 -0600, John Thornton wrote:
> That is the main reason I don't go to the zone as with my 1Mb (sometimes
> that good sometimes not so good) it takes 30 minutes to load a page then
> you have to navigate all the ads to find the forum...
>
> John
Thank goodness for the s
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 01:46:15 PM Rafael Skodlar did opine:
[...]
> What I have in all my Linux workstations is this:
> - in konsole (my favorite GUI terminal) I open a number of tabs. First
> one is always reserved for root. I label it root and to use it I
> normally do sudo su -
I prob
On 01/24/2012 12:36 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> Oh, that's a different story. The performance of CNCzone was never
> great, but
> tolerable. NOW, it is EXECRABLE! I have a 20 MB/s internet, and I
> often have
> to wait a MINUTE for the ads to load before I can see some discussion.
> Their
It is eas
That is the main reason I don't go to the zone as with my 1Mb (sometimes
that good sometimes not so good) it takes 30 minutes to load a page then
you have to navigate all the ads to find the forum...
John
On 1/24/2012 12:36 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> John Thornton wrote:
>> Why on earth would you w
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 12:26 -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
> Kirk Wallace wrote:
> >
> > but I used the paradigm of a switch closure at the time I did the
> > installation, after giving it more thought and referring to:
> > http://pico-systems.com/images/univstep.png
> >
> > it looks as if the inputs alr
John Thornton wrote:
> Why on earth would you want to close down the LinuxCNC forum and shift
> to a commercial laden for profit forum? There is nothing more annoying
> that waiting for all the commercials to load and clutter up your screen
> at the zone. Do you work for or derive profit the zon
andy pugh wrote:
> On 24 January 2012 13:47, Sven Wesley wrote:
>
>
>> 3. There are too many info channels! Close down the forum on the LinuxCNC
>> website ASAP! It doesn't work, Google can't make correct forward links and
>> some browsers fail to show it. There is an active forum at cnczone
>>
Kirk Wallace wrote:
>
> but I used the paradigm of a switch closure at the time I did the
> installation, after giving it more thought and referring to:
> http://pico-systems.com/images/univstep.png
>
> it looks as if the inputs already go to an opto-isolator on the UPC
> anyway. It may be that a
Just my view.
I would think that LinuxCNC could do fine as is for the next few years.
If one is energetic enough, there is plenty of documentation and support
to get a CNC conversion done. There are plenty of flaws and
contradictory sources, but someone with reasonable skills should be able
to so
Eric Keller wrote:
>> The LinuxCNC forum shows 14,000 posts to 8,000 for the cnczone one.
>> > I (personally) find the cnczone forum rather hard to find, at the end
>> > of a very long list, and I don't think that the sub-forums are broken
>> > down small enough.
>> >
> Seems to me that the CNCz
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:10 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> The LinuxCNC forum shows 14,000 posts to 8,000 for the cnczone one.
> I (personally) find the cnczone forum rather hard to find, at the end
> of a very long list, and I don't think that the sub-forums are broken
> down small enough.
>
Seems to m
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 00:12 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> Its doing all moves on the .bot. files
> in negative X from the reference point
I'm pretty sure there's a checkbox along the way that reads "Mirror X
axis" to make that answer come out right without any further attention.
The Eagle gerbv2
On 1/24/2012 8:47 AM, Sven Wesley wrote:
> 3. There are too many info channels! Close down the forum on the LinuxCNC
> website ASAP! It doesn't work, Google can't make correct forward links and
> some browsers fail to show it. There is an active forum at cnczone (I'll
> fix the renaming), there's a
Why on earth would you want to close down the LinuxCNC forum and shift
to a commercial laden for profit forum? There is nothing more annoying
that waiting for all the commercials to load and clutter up your screen
at the zone. Do you work for or derive profit the zone?
John
On 1/24/2012 7:47 A
On mar, 2012-01-24 at 14:10 +, andy pugh wrote:
> On 24 January 2012 13:47, Sven Wesley wrote:
>
> > 3. There are too many info channels! Close down the forum on the LinuxCNC
> > website ASAP! It doesn't work, Google can't make correct forward links and
> > some browsers fail to show it. Ther
> On 24 January 2012 13:47, Sven Wesley wrote:
> Google can't make correct forward links
I just tried a search for something I knew would find the LinuxCNC
website forum, and it worked fine. Can you elaborate on this point?
--
atp
The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth is, qui
On 24 January 2012 13:47, Sven Wesley wrote:
> 3. There are too many info channels! Close down the forum on the LinuxCNC
> website ASAP! It doesn't work, Google can't make correct forward links and
> some browsers fail to show it. There is an active forum at cnczone
I disagree. I don't like the
2012/1/24 gene heskett
> On Monday, January 23, 2012 11:57:10 PM Jeff Epler did opine:
>
> > Michael,
> >
> > I would like to address your concerns over the quality of the rebranding
> > changes and the degree of consideration that they were given before they
> > were made. I can speak only for
On 22 January 2012 08:07, wrote:
> why retrofit bridgeport machine when one can buy cnc machine X 50" Y 26"
> travel CNC mill for $6.5 k
That machine cost $85k new, so the standard of bearings, castings,
screws etc is likely to be a lot better than a built-down-to-a-price
$6.5k machine. Given t
On 01/23/2012 02:16 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> Thanks Mark, but I think NFS is going to solve my problems in that regard.
> After 14 years of failure, I made it work, with a lot of help from this
> list, this morning. Sweet! Shame on the man page writers for abstracting
> the requirements till nobo
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
> The motor was probably removed by the same process that modified the
control boxes.
That's pretty sad to see. It really looks like the whole thing has been on
its side, and it's hard to believe there isn't significant damage to the
impor
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