Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/19 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: 2) can I make larger that piece of section display in which I can draw the ladder logics? now it consists of several blocks and it seems pretty inconvenient. No, and there is a reason. ladder evaluates the logic one rung at a time. it

[Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, folks! Is there a way to set commanded position for particular joint from VCP widget? The machine I am building has 1 joint that positions one of the saw blades. I would like to be able to set its position from VCP (most probably pyvcp as it is easier for me to set up), but I have

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 August 2012 13:08, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to set commanded position for particular joint from VCP widget? I am fairly sure that the answer is No. The answer is probably to have the stepgen or PID driven directly by the VCP and to not involve MOTION

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/19 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 19 August 2012 13:08, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to set commanded position for particular joint from VCP widget? I am fairly sure that the answer is No. The answer is probably to have the stepgen or PID driven

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread John Thornton
You could roll your own in GladeVCP... have you seen my tutorials on that? John On 8/19/2012 6:29 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2012/8/19 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 19 August 2012 13:08, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to set commanded position for particular

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/19 John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com: You could roll your own in GladeVCP... have you seen my tutorials on that? Yes, I have played a little with Glade. It is really nice, but there is some learning curve for me to climb. I already am over deadline with this machine, so I am interested to

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread John Thornton
Have you looked at halui to home the joint? Have you seen this? http://linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/component/kunena/?func=viewcatid=48id=23317limit=6 On 8/19/2012 7:00 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2012/8/19 John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com: You could roll your own in GladeVCP... have you seen

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 August 2012 14:00, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, I have an issue of reproducing homing routine either in HAL or in Ladder. Can anyone share some advice, how to do that? I do not really understand, how can I reset stepgen position to 0 or whatever fixed value,

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 August 2012 14:14, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked at halui to home the joint? Have you seen this? http://linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/component/kunena/?func=viewcatid=48id=23317limit=6 Or, for that matterr:

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/19 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 19 August 2012 14:00, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, I have an issue of reproducing homing routine either in HAL or in Ladder. Can anyone share some advice, how to do that? I do not really understand, how can I reset stepgen

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/19 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 19 August 2012 14:14, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked at halui to home the joint? Have you seen this? http://linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/component/kunena/?func=viewcatid=48id=23317limit=6 Or, for that matterr:

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 August 2012 15:04, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure that I understand, how did You mean that. Stepgen has a counts output. You need to store that value somewhere in HAL at the point when the home switch is tripped. (alternatively, store the position-fb value).

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 August 2012 15:09, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: How can I tell Ubuntu to do these 2 commands right after startup? cd /home/machine/linuxcnc/configs/hm2_stepper halrun -I -f whatever.hal Probably in .bashrc. (or some other startup script magic). BTW, where can I see,

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread John Thornton
The problem I've run across with trying to use halrun is how to shut it down when finished. I have however stumbled across how to install your custom gui and run it from linuxcnc without jumping through a bunch of hoops. http://gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/gui/gui03b.html A goodle search for ubuntu

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread John Thornton
changing my search string to ubuntu 10.04 how to run a program on startup brings up even better results On 8/19/2012 8:09 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2012/8/19 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 19 August 2012 14:14, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked at halui to home the

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 August 2012 15:48, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: The problem I've run across with trying to use halrun is how to shut it down when finished. I have however stumbled across how to install your custom gui and run it from linuxcnc without jumping through a bunch of hoops.

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread John Thornton
I've only been able to figure out how to run my GUI with halrun from a terminal which is not very elegant as you have to type in exit or quit to unload the real time environment unless you know the secret to halrun closing when the GUI closes? The new GUI doesn't replace the others it just

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 August 2012 16:33, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: The new GUI doesn't replace the others it just lives beside them... What do you get if you only put your GUI in the INI? -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread John Thornton
You mean if I don't copy the files to the installed folders? On 8/19/2012 9:42 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 19 August 2012 16:33, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: The new GUI doesn't replace the others it just lives beside them... What do you get if you only put your GUI in the INI?

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 August 2012 18:20, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: What do you get if you only put your GUI in the INI? You mean if I don't copy the files to the installed folders? Perhaps I should have said If you put only your GUI in the INI ie, can yours be the only GUI? -- atp If you can't

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread John Thornton
I think I understand but the accent gave me a rough time... I'm not running my GUI on top of or embedded in Axis or any other LinuxCNC GUI. DISPLAY=MyGui So yes it is running stand alone with all of LinuxCNC available to my GUI via the python interface. On 8/19/2012 11:53 AM, andy pugh

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread Gabriel Willen
Hey Viesturs, I have successfully done this twice, its fairly simple. I would be more than happy to help you through it. Including a homing process. I would suggest only using glade for the User Interface, not to handle any time based commands. Found this out very quickly. Its really easy to

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/19 John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com: I think I understand but the accent gave me a rough time... I'm not running my GUI on top of or embedded in Axis or any other LinuxCNC GUI. DISPLAY=MyGui So yes it is running stand alone with all of LinuxCNC available to my GUI via the python

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/19 Gabriel Willen gabewil...@gmail.com: Hey Viesturs, I have successfully done this twice, its fairly simple. I would be more than happy to help you through it. Including a homing process. Thank You for the offer! I appreciate that! Its really easy to write a hal component using

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread John Thornton
Basically there are a dozen lines that do magic then you just add a define for each signal you create in the Gtk Interface Designer to do the function you want. The most confusing thing for me is there is so many ways to get to the end you can get lost along the way... What controls does your

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/19 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/19 Gabriel Willen gabewil...@gmail.com: Its really easy to write a hal component using halcomp and attach the python handlers to those i/o pins you create. I feel familiar with comp, I have customized HAL components for some of my

Re: [Emc-users] Joint position from VCP

2012-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/19 John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com: Basically there are a dozen lines that do magic then you just add a define for each signal you create in the Gtk Interface Designer to do the function you want. The most confusing thing for me is there is so many ways to get to the end you can get

Re: [Emc-users] solder paste

2012-08-19 Thread dave
On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 06:18 -0500, ceen...@in-front.com wrote: I found a high pressure pump (up to 40,000PSI) that may work with solder paste. These are readily available on ebay as high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) pumps. A description is here:

Re: [Emc-users] solder paste

2012-08-19 Thread ceenbot
Thanks Dave. Thought I would throw it out there. I don't have any experience with a HPLC pump. What if the geometry were larger and the check valves could cope with a suspended solid? Think on the scale of a small hydraulic valve body. Dennis HPLC pumps are made to deliver precise

Re: [Emc-users] solder paste

2012-08-19 Thread dave
On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 20:39 -0500, ceen...@in-front.com wrote: Thanks Dave. Thought I would throw it out there. I don't have any experience with a HPLC pump. What if the geometry were larger and the check valves could cope with a suspended solid? Think on the scale of a small hydraulic

Re: [Emc-users] solder paste

2012-08-19 Thread ceenbot
Hi Dave, That's funny. I am an engineer but opinions and others' expertise are always welcome. That is how I learn. I found some inexpensive HPLC pumps on ebay but most are sold as-is. You don't know if the seals are any good and if some yahoo like me tried to push solder paste through