Re: [Emc-users] Two hal+gladevcp questions

2013-04-23 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/4/23 John Kasunich jmkasun...@fastmail.fm halcmd show will show pin names as well. You can also use halcmd in interactive mode; type halcmd -f at the shell prompt, and halcmd will display a halcmd: prompt. You can then use commands like show pin, complete with wildcards, tab

Re: [Emc-users] Machine documentation: software, best practices

2013-04-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 15:55:19 Kent A. Reed did opine: On 4/22/2013 6:49 PM, andy pugh wrote: [...] We have 46,000 labels to calibrate and 5000 pages of these diagrams. I don't know which is worse---dealing with the diagrams themselves or trying to grok the designers' intent. I'd say

Re: [Emc-users] Machine documentation: software, best practices

2013-04-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 15:59:53 Kent A. Reed did opine: On 4/22/2013 10:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 22 April 2013 22:25:37 Kent A. Reed did opine: On 4/16/2013 7:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: clipping out the previous discussion about documenting LinuxCNC configurations

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual - Why one Document

2013-04-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 16:16:48 Stuart Stevenson did opine: Gene - The parabole function may not work but I see the hyperbole button is working. :) ROTFLMAO! Thanks for the flowers Stuart! But, really, does it HAVE to be that picky? Seems to me that .0001 or .005mm really ought to be

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes3 branch

2013-04-23 Thread Michał Geszkiewicz
W dniu 23.04.2013 14:47, Andrew pisze: 2013/4/23 Yishin Li y...@araisrobo.com AFAIK, the world mode jogging had been fixed on araisrobo's ja3 branch. This is the github repository: https://github.com/araisrobo/linuxcnc/commits/feature/usb-rigid-tap (We are working on feature/usb-rigid-tap

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual - Why one Document

2013-04-23 Thread John Kasunich
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013, at 04:21 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 23 April 2013 16:16:48 Stuart Stevenson did opine: Gene - The parabole function may not work but I see the hyperbole button is working. :) ROTFLMAO! Thanks for the flowers Stuart! But, really, does it HAVE to be that

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes3 branch

2013-04-23 Thread Andrew
2013/4/23 Michał Geszkiewicz mic...@wp.plhttps://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cmfs=1tf=1to=mic...@wp.pl I think i fixed teleop jogging on ja3, please try it. Hi, Thanks a lot! I just did pull and make, there was a change in motmod. I'll try it tomorrow on the machine. FYI a warning appeared

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual - Why one Document

2013-04-23 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:57:24 -0400, you wrote: What is the path tolerance thing, G64? In any event, it has no effect, you can tell it to use a .5000 tolerance but you cannot get past the brick wall that is the error checker for g2-3. I don't think G64 was ever intended to override arc end

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual - Why one Document

2013-04-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 20:12:51 Steve Blackmore did opine: On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:57:24 -0400, you wrote: What is the path tolerance thing, G64? In any event, it has no effect, you can tell it to use a .5000 tolerance but you cannot get past the brick wall that is the error checker for

Re: [Emc-users] Black BeagleBoard: available at $45 (was LinuxCNC would be very nice on the UDOO board.)

2013-04-23 Thread Jon Elson
Jon Elson wrote: Ralph Stirling wrote: One show stopper I found with the RPi was the high probability of SD card corruption during power cycles (power failure without full OS shutdown first). Is the BeagleBone Black immune to this problem? The quoted ten second shutdown is good, but I'd

Re: [Emc-users] Cubieboard: available at 49$ (was: LinuxCNC would be very nice on the UDOO board.)

2013-04-23 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 23.04.2013 00:07, schrieb Kasey Matejcek: Has anyone tried to play a video file from something like a Gopro camera is there a enough power to play these type of files ? Or isn't there enough video or cpu power to do this I have costumer that is asking if I could put something together that

[Emc-users] Joints_axes3 branch

2013-04-23 Thread Andrew
Hello gentlemen, I'm trying joints_axes3 for my delta robot. It has Yaskawa Sigma II servo motors with analog control and MESA 7i43+7i48. Working config is converted from 2.5.2 to ja3 (attached). I should say that ja3 is much better than 2 years ago when I tried it. Generally the machine works

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes3 branch

2013-04-23 Thread andy pugh
On 23 April 2013 10:56, Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com wrote: hm2/hm2_7i43.0: Encoder 0: quadrature count error Though nothing seems to happen, I'm afraid that the encoder might lose impulses or smth. What's the problem? Nothing similar on 2.5.2 with exactly same settings, so the

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes3 branch

2013-04-23 Thread Andrew
2013/4/23 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com On 23 April 2013 10:56, Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com wrote: hm2/hm2_7i43.0: Encoder 0: quadrature count error Though nothing seems to happen, I'm afraid that the encoder might lose impulses or smth. What's the problem? Nothing similar

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes3 branch

2013-04-23 Thread Yishin Li
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.comwrote: Another problem appeared: world mode always jogs full speed. If it was not for world mode limits, that could be painful. AFAIK, the world mode jogging had been fixed on araisrobo's ja3 branch. This is the github

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes3 branch

2013-04-23 Thread Michał Geszkiewicz
W dniu 23.04.2013 12:42, Andrew pisze: 2013/4/23 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com On 23 April 2013 10:56, Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com wrote: hm2/hm2_7i43.0: Encoder 0: quadrature count error Though nothing seems to happen, I'm afraid that the encoder might lose impulses or smth.

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual

2013-04-23 Thread John Thornton
The biggest problem is none of the items after the warning are actually used by LinuxCNC. When the subheading was there it implied that LinuxCNC actually used them somehow. IMHO each one of those entries really belongs with what ever component might use them, but I have no way of knowing which

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual - Why one Document

2013-04-23 Thread John Thornton
At one time there were 4 manuals and 2 of them contained almost the same content. After years of work I put the stuff needed for a newbee to get started into the Getting Started Manual pdf and the stuff needed to USE LinuxCNC in the User Manual pdf and the stuff needed to integrate LinuxCNC

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes3 branch

2013-04-23 Thread Andrew
2013/4/23 Yishin Li y...@araisrobo.com AFAIK, the world mode jogging had been fixed on araisrobo's ja3 branch. This is the github repository: https://github.com/araisrobo/linuxcnc/commits/feature/usb-rigid-tap (We are working on feature/usb-rigid-tap branch.) This is the guide to pull and

Re: [Emc-users] Joints_axes3 branch

2013-04-23 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Andrew wrote: Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:56:30 +0300 From: Andrew parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users]

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual - Why one Document

2013-04-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 10:35:41 John Thornton did opine: At one time there were 4 manuals and 2 of them contained almost the same content. After years of work I put the stuff needed for a newbee to get started into the Getting Started Manual pdf and the stuff needed to USE LinuxCNC in the

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual - Why one Document

2013-04-23 Thread andy pugh
On 23 April 2013 15:57, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: The biggest confusion to me yet is that even though the machine is in absolute movement mode, G2/3 moves are still made relative to where it starts from, See G91.1 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode/gcode.html#sec:G90_1-G91_1

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC would be very nice on the UDOO board.

2013-04-23 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 4/22/2013 11:40 AM, Matt Shaver wrote: On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:30:23 +0200 Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: We'll have a ready-to-go SD card image with xenomai, all prerequisite packages and linuxcnc installed in a week or two; that will include Charles' PRU stepgen and

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual

2013-04-23 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 4/23/2013 7:34 AM, John Thornton wrote: The biggest problem is none of the items after the warning are actually used by LinuxCNC. When the subheading was there it implied that LinuxCNC actually used them somehow. IMHO each one of those entries really belongs with what ever component might

Re: [Emc-users] Machine documentation: software, best practices

2013-04-23 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 4/22/2013 6:49 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 22 April 2013 19:33, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com wrote: We both suffer from the problem that the size and complexity of a HAL diagram is potentially unbounded. Not just you. My job basically revolves around peering at Simulink diagrams

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual - Why one Document

2013-04-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 11:30:19 andy pugh did opine: On 23 April 2013 15:57, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: The biggest confusion to me yet is that even though the machine is in absolute movement mode, G2/3 moves are still made relative to where it starts from, See G91.1

Re: [Emc-users] Machine documentation: software, best practices

2013-04-23 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 4/22/2013 10:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 22 April 2013 22:25:37 Kent A. Reed did opine: On 4/16/2013 7:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: clipping out the previous discussion about documenting LinuxCNC configurations There was a thingy that I assume worked, I installed it last fall,

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual

2013-04-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 04/23/2013 09:37 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: That issue aside, I just did what I should have done yesterday and compared the HTML and PDF versions of the Integrator manual. The subheadings Rudy and I questioned are present in the HTML version

Re: [Emc-users] Black BeagleBoard: available at $45 (was LinuxCNC would be very nice on the UDOO board.)

2013-04-23 Thread Jon Elson
Ralph Stirling wrote: One show stopper I found with the RPi was the high probability of SD card corruption during power cycles (power failure without full OS shutdown first). Is the BeagleBone Black immune to this problem? The quoted ten second shutdown is good, but I'd like to have the

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC would be very nice on the UDOO board.

2013-04-23 Thread Jon Elson
Matt Shaver wrote: On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:19:19 -0500 Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: I sent one of these EPP emulator/converters to Dale Grover, I think it ended up with Matt Shaver. Nope, I think Dale's still got it. I was discouraged by the lack of RTAI for ARM, but

Re: [Emc-users] Integrators Manual - Why one Document

2013-04-23 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gene - The parabole function may not work but I see the hyperbole button is working. :) On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Tuesday 23 April 2013 11:30:19 andy pugh did opine: On 23 April 2013 15:57, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: The biggest