Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-17 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:37:30PM -0500, Erik Friesen wrote: > > One downside to this, is that unless your chosen variable is persistent, it > won't show up correctly in the axis preview. One workaround is to use one > of the unused persistent variables from something, or the way I did it, I > c

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-17 Thread Erik Friesen
This takes some special work for your g code, but I have done something remotely similar. What I did was use the G54-59 offset system and G file subroutines called from pyvcp. If I have this straight in my mind what you are doing, it would be something like this. 1. Home to G54 x,y, and z. 2. P

Re: [Emc-users] Servo Tuning

2013-01-17 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Marshland Engineering wrote: > Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:03:05 +1300 > From: Marshland Engineering > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Emc-users] Servo Tuning > > We finally have the test system up and runn

[Emc-users] Servo Tuning

2013-01-17 Thread Marshland Engineering
We finally have the test system up and running. We are running servo drives. The drives themselves have some adjustments so the best operation will have to be a combination of drives and PID values. I can't seem to find a Hal pin that I can trace on the Halscope to measure either required value

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-17 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 17:19 -0500, Todd Zuercher wrote: > > Is there a simple way to add or subtract a small amount to the offset > for an axis. It seems all the G10 commands replace the stored value, > What I would like is a comand that adds to the old one regaurdless of > machine position . I

[Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-17 Thread Todd Zuercher
Is there a simple  way to add or subtract a small amount to the offset for an axis.  It seems all the G10 commands replace the stored value, What I would like is a comand that adds to the old one regaurdless of machine position .  Is there such a thing?  How hard would it be to make one? I

[Emc-users] Homing?

2013-01-17 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I just trim to trim the z backlash (its hopeless, wait for new ball screw) and set my auto-zero-cal code up to establish its home position as being the back end of this gage I have made. The code I think, is doing exactly what I wrote it to do, but when I run it, expecting it to

Re: [Emc-users] converting TO a Mesa 5I25

2013-01-17 Thread John Stewart
John; On 2013-01-17, at 11:28 AM, John Thornton wrote: > Basically you just need to change the pin names to match the 7i76 and > change to the 5i25. > Hmm - seems simple enough. The mill 5i25 is going to be driving a Gecko G540, so maybe the changes are not that great. I have read before

Re: [Emc-users] gladevcp info

2013-01-17 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 10:48 -0600, kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote: > Is it possible to write a standalone app such as > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal/pyvcp_examples.html#_port_tester > using gladevcp that will run without linuxcnc > All the standalone apps I find in the documentation use pyvcp > I a

Re: [Emc-users] gladevcp info

2013-01-17 Thread Eric Keller
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:48 AM, wrote: > Is it possible to write a standalone app such as > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal/pyvcp_examples.html#_port_tester > using gladevcp that will run without linuxcnc > All the standalone apps I find in the documentation use pyvcp > Of course it is, but

[Emc-users] gladevcp info

2013-01-17 Thread kqt4at5v
Is it possible to write a standalone app such as http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal/pyvcp_examples.html#_port_tester using gladevcp that will run without linuxcnc All the standalone apps I find in the documentation use pyvcp I am sure this is a ridiculous question but I am just trying to learn --

Re: [Emc-users] converting TO a Mesa 5I25

2013-01-17 Thread John Thornton
Basically you just need to change the pin names to match the 7i76 and change to the 5i25. My plasma hal # kinematics loadrt trivkins # motion controller, get name and thread periods from ini file loadrt motmod servo_period_nsec=100 num_joints=[TRAJ]AXES # hostmot2 driver loadrt hostmot2 #

[Emc-users] converting TO a Mesa 5I25

2013-01-17 Thread John Stewart
Hi all; Received my 2x Mesa 5I25 plus 1 7i76 (the stepper interface) One of the 5I25s is going into a sw-stepper to Gecko G540 based box, on a mill with rotary table, touch probe and mpg. Other than starting from scratch with pncconf, is there an easy way to convert the ini files by hand to th