Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/5/14 charles green : > well, there's your spline form right there in the video.  screen capture.   > the eliptical bearing is nice, but you can get away with a diametrically > opposed pair of rollers for that function. > No, diametrically opposed rollers is bad idea. Rollers determine only t

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread dave
On Mon, 14 May 2012 20:40:14 -0500 Jon Elson wrote: > Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > I had two MHP machines. MHP = M(oog) H(ydra) P(oint) > > They ran gcode just like any NC/CNC machine. Each linear axis had > > two cylinders opposing one another. A hydraulic servo valve > > released pressure from o

Re: [Emc-users] simple conversational utility to cut off remnants

2012-05-14 Thread Tom Easterday
On May 14, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > On 05/14/2012 09:24 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: >> Is there a simple conversational way in Linuxcnc (2.5) to cut a straight >> line or a simple pattern? After cutting some parts on a large sheet with >> the plasma machine today we wanted

Re: [Emc-users] simple conversational utility to cut off remnants

2012-05-14 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 05/14/2012 09:24 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: > Is there a simple conversational way in Linuxcnc (2.5) to cut a straight line > or a simple pattern? After cutting some parts on a large sheet with the > plasma machine today we wanted to cut a straight line starting from a touch > off point at a s

[Emc-users] simple conversational utility to cut off remnants

2012-05-14 Thread Tom Easterday
Is there a simple conversational way in Linuxcnc (2.5) to cut a straight line or a simple pattern? After cutting some parts on a large sheet with the plasma machine today we wanted to cut a straight line starting from a touch off point at a specific feed rate ending at a specific distance. Thi

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread Jon Elson
Stuart Stevenson wrote: > I had two MHP machines. MHP = M(oog) H(ydra) P(oint) > They ran gcode just like any NC/CNC machine. Each linear axis had two > cylinders opposing one another. A hydraulic servo valve released pressure > from one or another cylinder to allow the table to move away from the

Re: [Emc-users] Debian with LinuxCNC

2012-05-14 Thread Eric Keller
I think you are in trouble since the top 4 hits on google for "building rtai on debian" go to linuxcnc. I have built many RTAI kernels, but it was always painful, and it has been long enough that I really would rather change operating systems. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Tux Lab wrote: > I

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Mine looked very similar. My control had a CRT and could hold a short program. I believe the tape reader was optic. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:59 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 14 May 2012 20:51, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > I had two MHP machines. MHP = M(oog) H(ydra) P(oint) > > Interesting: > http:

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread andy pugh
On 14 May 2012 20:51, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > I had two MHP machines. MHP = M(oog) H(ydra) P(oint) Interesting: http://www.lathes.co.uk/bridgeport/page18.html -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ---

[Emc-users] Debian with LinuxCNC

2012-05-14 Thread Tux Lab
Is there a more up to date tutorial on how to compile rtai with Debian.It took me a whole weekend to compile a kernel that will boot but when I try the latency test, I get insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.32-rtai/rtai/rtai_hal.ko': -1 Invalid module format ERROR: cannot load /lib/modu

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread Stuart Stevenson
I had two MHP machines. MHP = M(oog) H(ydra) P(oint) They ran gcode just like any NC/CNC machine. Each linear axis had two cylinders opposing one another. A hydraulic servo valve released pressure from one or another cylinder to allow the table to move away from the high pressure side. The position

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread Jon Elson
Dave wrote: > There were/are some manufacturers of hydraulic cylinder driven milling > machines. > > I forget who made them in the USA - Cincinnati Milacron perhaps. > > Cincinnatti made the machine, Moog made the control. The control was all pneumatic, no interpolation, not even linear. It

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Moog Hydra Point mills are hydraulic cylinder actuated. On May 14, 2012 10:52 AM, "dave" wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2012 14:03:51 +0100 > andy pugh wrote: > > > On 14 May 2012 13:41, Dave wrote: > > > There were/are some manufacturers of hydraulic cylinder driven > > > milling machines. > > > > I

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread dave
On Mon, 14 May 2012 14:03:51 +0100 andy pugh wrote: > On 14 May 2012 13:41, Dave wrote: > > There were/are some manufacturers of hydraulic cylinder driven > > milling machines. > > I used to drive a servo-hydraulic tensile-testing machine. The > actuator was extremely stiff and extremely fast.

Re: [Emc-users] Compiling 2.5 as simulator

2012-05-14 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/14/2012 9:49 AM, Chris Radek wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 02:03:40PM +0200, Robert von Knobloch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I retrieved from git the 2.5 branch, grabbed all the dependencies and >> versions etc. and compiled it OK, well no errors reported (opensuse 12.1). >> It runs fine except the

Re: [Emc-users] Help with 5i25 + 7i77

2012-05-14 Thread Eugenio Yime
Hi Peter, well, I made a mistake, I was counting from up to down and analog0 is forth pin from bottom. I test analog0 to analog4 and everything was fine, for analog5 I did "halcmd:setp hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.1.spinena TRUE" and it works fine too. Thanks for you help, Eugenio. On Sat, 2012-05-12 a

Re: [Emc-users] Compiling 2.5 as simulator

2012-05-14 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 02:03:40PM +0200, Robert von Knobloch wrote: > Hi, > > I retrieved from git the 2.5 branch, grabbed all the dependencies and > versions etc. and compiled it OK, well no errors reported (opensuse 12.1). > It runs fine except there is no backplot (visible) in axis. Does your

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread andy pugh
On 14 May 2012 13:41, Dave wrote: > There were/are some manufacturers of hydraulic cylinder driven milling > machines. I used to drive a servo-hydraulic tensile-testing machine. The actuator was extremely stiff and extremely fast. And _extremely_ expensive. That particular one used a leaky piston

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa board / Embedded PC / HW issues....

2012-05-14 Thread Dave
Yep, same here in the US. Dave On 5/14/2012 7:27 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > Viesturs > > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > > > 2012/5/14 Jon Elson: > >> and the memory >> is 204-pin, not the 240-pin that has been standard for a while. >> > A mon

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread Dave
There were/are some manufacturers of hydraulic cylinder driven milling machines. I forget who made them in the USA - Cincinnati Milacron perhaps. I found a company in India making them. Dave On 5/14/2012 1:00 AM, charles green wrote: > there are hydrualic servo systems, but it seems like the

[Emc-users] Compiling 2.5 as simulator

2012-05-14 Thread Robert von Knobloch
Hi, I run the Ubuntu cd version 2.5 on my CNC mill (Optimum BF20L) and like to have a sim version on my desktop. I retrieved from git the 2.5 branch, grabbed all the dependencies and versions etc. and compiled it OK, well no errors reported (opensuse 12.1). It runs fine except there is no backplot

Re: [Emc-users] psu for atom boards

2012-05-14 Thread Dave
The standard PICO power supplies are designed to be run off a regulated 12 volt PSU, not a 12 volt battery. Only the wide range units are designed for car use - and some of them will survive an engine starting cycle which is handy since you PC will not reboot when starting the car, boat, etc as

Re: [Emc-users] psu for atom boards

2012-05-14 Thread Ted Hyde
dave wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Sometime ago I bought a D510MO to replace my aging 1.2 GHz Duron. I'm >> finally frustrated enough with the present cpu, etc. to actually >> upgrade. ;-) >> >> http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/power_supplies/dc_converters?gclid=COeJt5m4_q8CFSIHRQodoQGGHA >> >> I've

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread charles green
yes, the hourglass shaped worm would only fit an infinitesmally thin disk of a gear exactly. from my research, such fitting scheme is practiced in conventional worm gear mesh to make alingment of the two rotation axes less critical: an over large radius is used on the gear tooth form with resp

Re: [Emc-users] Mesa board / Embedded PC / HW issues....

2012-05-14 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto 2012/5/14 Jon Elson : > and the memory > is 204-pin, not the 240-pin that has been standard for a while. A month ago I needed to add RAM to my modeling PC and then 204-pin memory actually was cheaper. Viesturs ---

Re: [Emc-users] Some advice needed

2012-05-14 Thread andy pugh
On 14 May 2012 06:00, charles green wrote: > i wonder, in the ball worm mechanism, why not make the worm engagement happen > over more like a quarter of the diameter of the gear. This can be done, to an extent, with conventional worms, but it gets a bit difficult as eventually you have to telep

[Emc-users] re picoPSU for ATOM motherboards

2012-05-14 Thread Rudy du Preez
I have recently installed picoPSU 90W (with extra 12V plug for MB) and 80W (without the plug) onto ten D425KT atom MB's and one N2700 MB. The latest range N2500..N2700 do not need the 12V link. I use standard 12V laptop PSU's. The Atoms all have a riser card with one MESA 5i20 or 5i23 or 5i22 i