[Emc-users] How can I find who actually made a Taiwan made mill?

2013-10-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I've not been able to find a manual for my Acra WS-18VH mill, made in 1990. Acra doesn't have one. They only have manuals for their current products, which aren't from the company they were buying from in the early 90's. I know some mills sold by Acra were actually made by Sharp, remove the Ac

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 October 2013 21:51:14 Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 10/28/2013 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > <...> > > What do I use to translate that .igs to a format I can view? > > Does the file contain a part model (e.g. 3D) or a drawing (e.g. 2D)? > > IGES Viewer (http://igsviewer.com/) is p

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy with 1024x600 resolution display?

2013-10-28 Thread andy pugh
On 28 October 2013 22:59, Thomas Kaiser wrote: > Touchy is too big for this screen! (LinuxCNC 2.5.3 on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS) IIRC the trick is to fiddle with the font DPI until the width works System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts->Details->Reolution Then in Touchy play with the font sizes to fit

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread Stuart Stevenson
the part is a 3D model - points and a curve On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 10/28/2013 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > <...> > > What do I use to translate that .igs to a format I can view? > > > > > > Does the file contain a part model (e.g. 3D) or a drawing (e.g. 2D)

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/28/2013 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > <...> > What do I use to translate that .igs to a format I can view? > > Does the file contain a part model (e.g. 3D) or a drawing (e.g. 2D)? IGES Viewer (http://igsviewer.com/) is pretty decent free 3D viewer but it was written for MS Windows. I have

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 October 2013 18:06:41 Stuart Stevenson did opine: > Andy, > Does this look ok? > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vzrepcbrmw44nw/ballworm.igs > > this is > > 5 inches from the center of table to the center of the ball > 1 inch from the center of the worm to the center of the ball > 90

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy with 1024x600 resolution display?

2013-10-28 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 10/29/2013 12:07 AM, John Thornton wrote: > Your screen is too small... I don't think so! The fonts and the buttons are really big. When one does not limit the resolution for Touchy, it will fit fine. As written in the design notes it should fit to any resolution. Thomas --

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy with 1024x600 resolution display?

2013-10-28 Thread John Thornton
Your screen is too small... JT On 10/28/2013 5:59 PM, Thomas Kaiser wrote: > On 10/28/2013 11:30 PM, Chris Radek wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:20:23PM +0100, Thomas Kaiser wrote: >>> Sorry for a ping again. >>> >>> Is it not possible to run Touchy on 1024x600? >> Sure it is. Say what prob

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy with 1024x600 resolution display?

2013-10-28 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 10/28/2013 11:30 PM, Chris Radek wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:20:23PM +0100, Thomas Kaiser wrote: >> >> Sorry for a ping again. >> >> Is it not possible to run Touchy on 1024x600? > > Sure it is. Say what problem you are having? What doesn't fit? Touchy is too big for this screen! (Lin

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy with 1024x600 resolution display?

2013-10-28 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:20:23PM +0100, Thomas Kaiser wrote: > > Sorry for a ping again. > > Is it not possible to run Touchy on 1024x600? Sure it is. Say what problem you are having? What doesn't fit? -- Android i

Re: [Emc-users] Touchy with 1024x600 resolution display?

2013-10-28 Thread Thomas Kaiser
On 10/25/2013 06:43 PM, Thomas Kaiser wrote: > Hello All > > I would like to run Touchy on the resoltution 1024x600. > > I found this sentence in the file "design.notes" in the Touchy src > directory: "Configurability of font sizes makes it work with any screen > resolution." > > Where can I config

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Andy, Does this look ok? https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vzrepcbrmw44nw/ballworm.igs this is 5 inches from the center of table to the center of the ball 1 inch from the center of the worm to the center of the ball 90 worm revolutions is one table revolution any of the parameters can be changed have

[Emc-users] testing again

2013-10-28 Thread Len Shelton
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Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Look up double enveloping (AKA double throated) worm gear. I'd like to see the machines made to cut those before any kind of NC or CNC was available. -- Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platf

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2013-10-28 Thread Sven Wesley
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Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread Eric Keller
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Steve Stallings wrote: > With patents all that matters is the claims. Usually > there is only one real claim and the rest of the > "claims" are derivative of the first claim. > > In this case it looks like claim number one is very > specific to a device that utili

Re: [Emc-users] Technical vision

2013-10-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/10/28 Ralph Stirling > Should be no problem to change the script I posted to trigger > image capture from a hal pin rather than continuously capturing. Thanks, that is exactly what I meant with that "linuxcnc requesting recapture". -- Viesturs

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread Steve Stallings
With patents all that matters is the claims. Usually there is only one real claim and the rest of the "claims" are derivative of the first claim. In this case it looks like claim number one is very specific to a device that utilizes 3 design elements together. My guess is that the ball return path

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread andy pugh
On 28 October 2013 14:33, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Are you engaging three ring gear teeth? > Do you want a split nut for backlash adjustment? I started off seeing if it was possible to engage a _lot_ of teeth. The fact that the balls can be inserted later means that the normal assembly problems

Re: [Emc-users] Technical vision

2013-10-28 Thread Ralph Stirling
Should be no problem to change the script I posted to trigger image capture from a hal pin rather than continuously capturing. -- Ralph From: Viesturs Lācis [viesturs.la...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 6:49 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (E

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Are you engaging three ring gear teeth? Do you want a split nut for backlash adjustment? On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:01 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 28 October 2013 13:41, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > Do you have a design you can share? I would try to model it. > > The idea is stolen from: > http:/

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 10/28/2013 08:41 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Do you have a design you can share? I would try to model it. > maybe of use from John Hopkins http://urobotics.urology.jhu.edu/pub/2006-stoianovici-uspto-07051610.pdf yeah its patented but you can make for for your own use cantcha? regards Tomp tjtr

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread andy pugh
On 28 October 2013 13:41, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Do you have a design you can share? I would try to model it. The idea is stolen from: http://urobotics.urology.jhu.edu/projects/BW/ (I hate to think what a urology department intends to do with a ball worm) I was trying to model an enveloping v

Re: [Emc-users] Technical vision

2013-10-28 Thread Viesturs Lācis
I would prefer running the vision software (opencv) and LinuxCNC on the same pc. So do I understand correctly that my best option is userspace component that reads the coordinates from vision software and export them as HAL pins and then access those pins from g-code? Can I use reverse sequence to

Re: [Emc-users] Rotary stage

2013-10-28 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Do you have a design you can share? I would try to model it. On Oct 25, 2013 7:18 AM, "andy pugh" wrote: > On 25 October 2013 08:15, Steve Blackmore wrote: > > The newer Vertex ones are nowhere near as good as the older ones and > > there are a lot of cheap copies out there too. > > I think that

[Emc-users] Technical vision

2013-10-28 Thread Roland Jollivet
Not exactly what you want, but if you're prepared to run the vision software on a windows box, it could pass all the parameters to you over a com link. See Roborealm.com for a versatile low cost program. Roland On 26 October 2013 14:20, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > Hello! > > I have a guy from un