Re: [Emc-users] Knee mill w/ encoder on knee

2012-10-23 Thread Sven Wesley
Sven, How did you fit the knee motor? I'm considering it myself but looking for some more details. I figure I'd have to mount knee limits on both ends of travel, and figure out how to fix the motor. Matt I didn't, both the Abene and the Deckel was factory built. The guys I know that

[Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-23 Thread Sven Wesley
Guys, I know, poor performance is a every-now-and-then-upcoming-debate... I had pretty good performance with my old servo drives and Ubuntu 8. I upgraded to better (more secure) and faster drives and the speed was marvelous. And then I upgraded to Ubuntu 10 and lost 30 % speed. If I push the

Re: [Emc-users] What should I do to get the performance back?

2012-10-23 Thread andy pugh
On 23 October 2012 09:48, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: I really not want to step back to Ubuntu 8... If it worked better, why not? -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] OT - CNC Workshop not to be hosted by Digital

2012-10-23 Thread Mark Wendt
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: The north side. She has an apartment on Wisconsin Ave in Chevy Chase, MD. Technically, a block or two outside of DC. It is a nice area, but a little crowded. You can waste a lot of time sitting in traffic if you are not

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Week in Wichita

2012-10-23 Thread John Stewart
Hmmm - No boat needed for me, just 25 hours driving and 2,367km each way! (Ottawa, Canada) Sounds interesting, though. Maybe I'll see what flights cost. Thanks for the place/time; --- John Alexander Stewart

Re: [Emc-users] OT - CNC Workshop not to be hosted by Digital

2012-10-23 Thread Dave
On 10/23/2012 7:19 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Davee...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: The north side. She has an apartment on Wisconsin Ave in Chevy Chase, MD. Technically, a block or two outside of DC. It is a nice area, but a little crowded. You can waste a lot

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Week in Wichita

2012-10-23 Thread Dave
On 10/22/2012 9:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote: dave wrote: I'm intrigued by Jon's work on the serial Fanuc encoders. Those could be really nice on a tight machine. Quadrature plus index works now, I have a professional board made. I will eventually have the commutation signals added

[Emc-users] Stupid LinuxCNC Tricks

2012-10-23 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So I finally cobbled together enough pieces to glue LinuxCNC to my 3D printer and get a print. Figured I'd share in case anyone else reading this list is as crazy as I am. :) Photos:

Re: [Emc-users] Stupid LinuxCNC Tricks

2012-10-23 Thread jeremy youngs
you go charles -- jeremy youngs -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct

Re: [Emc-users] Stupid LinuxCNC Tricks

2012-10-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 10/23/2012 09:38 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Oh...and everything is running under a stock Debian system using the preempt-rt patched version of LinuxCNC (not required...the Ubuntu version with a custom RTAI kernel will work just fine too). Oh, just one little detail ;-) Cool Charles!

Re: [Emc-users] Stupid LinuxCNC Tricks

2012-10-23 Thread cogoman
On 10/23/2012 11:54 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Cool Charles! I'd love to see your config added to the sample configs we distribute Ditto to that! I'd like to see this become commonplace! -- Everyone hates

Re: [Emc-users] Stupid LinuxCNC Tricks

2012-10-23 Thread N. Christopher Perry
Outstanding! N. Christopher Perry On Oct 23, 2012, at 23:38, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: delta-arm 3D printer -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with