Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 22.03.2012 um 10:09 schrieb Erik Christiansen: It is my (limited) understanding that LinuxCNC cannot intrinsically test the current state of its many modalities, so we don't seem to have anything that can be checked, AIUI. ... But LinuxCNC doesn't know its current state in an

[Emc-users] A fixed example, and a question. [Was: Tool change question]

2012-03-23 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 23.03.12 16:47, Erik Christiansen wrote: Sub drill_em_there (123.456, 789.012) { Rel Drill X#1 Y#2 Z1.5 Retract 2.8 Repeat 3 // Drills 3 holes. } Ugh, too much typing of grammars and emails, and not enough observation. Those parameters shouldn't be there ...

Re: [Emc-users] OT - Re: Tool change question

2012-03-23 Thread Mark Wendt
On 03/22/2012 04:35 PM, Dave wrote: Now really OT! My tech book says: Case LA: 6516 lbs 4 cylinder engine 403 cu inches displacement!! 34 SAE drawbar HP My Case 400 is actually a model 411, but they were known as 400's. Case made a 400B model in the 60's that was a small tractor. 6144

Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question

2012-03-23 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 23.03.12 08:53, Michael Haberler wrote: As for introspection on state at the gcode level, see http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gcode/overview.html#_predefined_named_parameters_a_id_sec_predefined_named_parameters_a Many thanks for that link, Michael. And I thought that:

Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question

2012-03-23 Thread charles green
'squiggly' brackets are technically braces. [=left bracket, {=left brace, and (=left paren for anyone tempted to call it a curvey bracket. --- On Thu, 3/22/12, Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net wrote: From: Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Tool

Re: [Emc-users] Total OT - TV signal

2012-03-23 Thread Roger Holmquist
Ok Viesturs! As a former RF-engineer and a radioamateur hunting RF signals in the woods I believe your first job still is to find a better antenna-position. This is after you have made sure the cabling is in order so that is not the real cause of your problems. It's not certain you need a 30

Re: [Emc-users] CAM / G-code Generation

2012-03-23 Thread Anders Wallin
Hi Anders, Do you have the link for the forked currently developed version? Thanks! Playing with PyCam right now. Seems to come a long ways since I last played with it. There's a group of projects on github. https://github.com/Heeks They will differ, more or less, from the corresponding

Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 23.03.2012 um 10:30 schrieb Erik Christiansen: On 23.03.12 08:53, Michael Haberler wrote: As for introspection on state at the gcode level, see http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gcode/overview.html#_predefined_named_parameters_a_id_sec_predefined_named_parameters_a Many thanks for

Re: [Emc-users] Total OT - TV signal

2012-03-23 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/3/22 Peter Blodow p.blo...@dreki.de: First: are you sure the dish is directed correctly to the satellite? My apologies for not stating it clearly - it is DVB-T signal, terrestrial, not satellite. Thanks, Kirk and Gene! The antenna is ~2m long, its orientation is the same as previous

Re: [Emc-users] Total OT - TV signal

2012-03-23 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 23.03.12 15:24, Viesturs Lācis wrote: The thing is that there is a hill with trees on one side of the house. It is very nice, because to large extent it protects the house from western winds (statistically wind from west is most common in LV, as it blows from sea/ocean to continental

Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question

2012-03-23 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, March 23, 2012 10:23:48 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: On 22.03.12 11:24, gene heskett wrote: On Thursday, March 22, 2012 09:59:01 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: But LinuxCNC doesn't know its current state in an exportable way, so has nothing to put on a stack, AIUI. And we

Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question

2012-03-23 Thread charles green
fanuc controls offer the current state of the controller modes via their current parameter values, including the current values of the various axes. so, for example, a g28 x0 command could equivalantly be g#2002 x-#5030, where parameter 5030 is the axis position, and parameter 2002 is 0, 1, 2,

Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question

2012-03-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On Mar 23, 2012, at 10:16 , charles green wrote: i seem to remember linuxcnc looking like it had alot of those type of things analogously accessible through parameter space. i'm sure i saw stuff about the work coord params, and tool offsets i think. ..sections 12.5 and 12.13 of emc2 user

Re: [Emc-users] Total OT - TV signal

2012-03-23 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/3/23 Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net: That hill and its trees are casting a signal shadow. Yupp, exactly! Do you have a friend living on the top or side of the hill? No, it is relatively small - less 10 m high, pretty close to house. There are only trees on it, no buildings or

Re: [Emc-users] Total OT - TV signal

2012-03-23 Thread Ray Mitchell
If your terrestrial receiver is 3 years or so old, you may want to look into a newer tuner. The chip sets in the newer tuners have better multipath rejection/equalization, and can pick out the digital signal better from the ghost signals. In digital more signal is not necessarily better if you

Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question

2012-03-23 Thread charles green
nicer, but still only a handful of documented params. i was looking at a document dated a little over a year ago (11jan2011). do you know if the params #31 to #5000 contain useful info? like g90/g91 state, for example, or any registration of the other groups apart from group 12? you started

Re: [Emc-users] Total OT - TV signal

2012-03-23 Thread Kirk Wallace
In case anyone might be interested. I want to get a receiver for HD Radio, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Radio but would also like to have the receiver in my attic and stream the audio through my LAN. I found this chip:

Re: [Emc-users] Total OT - TV signal

2012-03-23 Thread Peter Blodow
Viesturs, I should have read your message more investigatively. In our area, DVB-T is no problem because everybody still have the old antennas on the roofs and the transmitted channels are the same, to. If you don't have the rakes anymore, try to get one from people who have gone satellite.

Re: [Emc-users] Total OT - TV signal

2012-03-23 Thread dave
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:14:19 +1100 Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net wrote: On 23.03.12 15:24, Viesturs Lācis wrote: The thing is that there is a hill with trees on one side of the house. It is very nice, because to large extent it protects the house from western winds

[Emc-users] Unhoming when powered off.

2012-03-23 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
My gantry still has some spring in it. If I manually cut power, or fault, the slaved axis move slightly, so when I try to power on again (F1/F2), it immediately faults. I need to unhome, go back to joint mode and rehome, but I can't because Axis disables the unhome menu options. Is there any

Re: [Emc-users] Unhoming when powered off.

2012-03-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On Mar 23, 2012, at 13:17 , Frank Tkalcevic wrote: My gantry still has some spring in it. If I manually cut power, or fault, the slaved axis move slightly, so when I try to power on again (F1/F2), it immediately faults. I need to unhome, go back to joint mode and rehome, but I can't because

Re: [Emc-users] C Compiler

2012-03-23 Thread Cathrine Hribar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:51:38 -0400 Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net wrote: I don't know whether you'll have to switch or not. You can still try mplabx, but it may take some effort to get everything going. You can turn in a support ticket now, its just whether or not you want to spend the time

[Emc-users] PM - Re: OT - Re: Tool change question

2012-03-23 Thread Dave
On 3/23/2012 4:11 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On 03/22/2012 04:35 PM, Dave wrote: Now really OT! My tech book says: Case LA: 6516 lbs 4 cylinder engine 403 cu inches displacement!! 34 SAE drawbar HP My Case 400 is actually a model 411, but they were known as 400's. Case made a 400B

Re: [Emc-users] Tool change question

2012-03-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 03/23/2012 11:42 AM, charles green wrote: nicer, but still only a handful of documented params. i was looking at a document dated a little over a year ago (11jan2011). do you know if the params #31 to #5000 contain useful info? like g90/g91 state, for example, or any registration of