Re: [Emc-users] Converting a Euro placer pick-and-place machine to LinuxCNC

2013-11-09 Thread David Armstrong
On 08/11/13 22:06, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: To be more precise, my pick-and-place machine really looks like a CNC. I am quite confident that it can be controlled by LinuxCNC. It has old connectors everywhere. What I am worried about is the overall software framework on top of

[Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; It appears that /usr/bin/halui has never been edited and rebuilt since a long time back. When the camview-emc stanza for [HALUI] is added to the ini file, I am getting a whole raft load of errors because halui can't find stuff it is apparently hard coded for, starting with the use

Re: [Emc-users] Controlling an infrared reflow oven using LinuxCNC

2013-11-09 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
Le vendredi 08 novembre 2013 à 23:00 +, andy pugh a écrit : It might be the case that the Arduino Mega (16 analogue inputs) is a better choice for the oven controller. Thanks for all answers. I am not aware yet of the temperature sensors. Apparently, they are built-in the infrared heaters

[Emc-users] (no subject)

2013-11-09 Thread aaron moore
Hi I am trying to get my head around running a rotary axis on top of a 3 axis router, but I am having problems; The main one is low feed speed. I have tried editing the code and increasing feed and acceleration in the ini file to increase the speed, but in makes no difference. I am trying to

Re: [Emc-users] Controlling an infrared reflow oven using LinuxCNC

2013-11-09 Thread David Armstrong
On 09/11/13 10:46, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: Le vendredi 08 novembre 2013 à 23:00 +, andy pugh a écrit : It might be the case that the Arduino Mega (16 analogue inputs) is a better choice for the oven controller. Thanks for all answers. I am not aware yet of the temperature sensors.

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2013-11-09 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Aaron When you cut stuff with a lot of little cuts, especially curved cuts, the speed will always be slow. If you look at the constant velocity parameters of any CNC machine you will find that the machine has to accelerate and then decelerate again at the beginning and end of every cut or

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2013-11-09 Thread andy pugh
On 9 November 2013 10:58, aaron moore aaronmo...@linuxmail.org wrote: The main one is low feed speed. I have tried editing the code and increasing feed and acceleration in the ini file to increase the speed, but in makes no difference. I am trying to cut a helical final cut, which seems to

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2013-11-09 Thread Belli Button
I think LCNC can only execute one Gcode per servo cycle. Does it help to reduce your servo cycle time? -Original Message- From: aaron moore [mailto:aaronmo...@linuxmail.org] Sent: 09 November 2013 12:58 PM To: EMC userslist Subject: [Emc-users] (no subject) Hi I am trying to get my

Re: [Emc-users] Controlling an infrared reflow oven using LinuxCNC

2013-11-09 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 09.11.13 11:46, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: Le vendredi 08 novembre 2013 à 23:00 +, andy pugh a écrit : It might be the case that the Arduino Mega (16 analogue inputs) is a better choice for the oven controller. While I haven't used any of the PID algorithms at:

Re: [Emc-users] Controlling an infrared reflow oven using LinuxCNC

2013-11-09 Thread andy pugh
On 9 November 2013 11:54, Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net wrote: Fortunately the temperature in a reflow oven needn't be regulated to within one degree, AIUI, because the A/D converter on an AVR (Arduino) or any other 8 bit MCU that I've come across is only 8 bits, minus offset and

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2013-11-09 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I don't think it will help as the problem is acceleration over distance. I.E. Distance of move to short to reach max feed rate. On 2013/11/09 01:47 PM, Belli Button wrote: I think LCNC can only execute one Gcode per servo cycle. Does it help to reduce your servo cycle time? -Original

Re: [Emc-users] Controlling an infrared reflow oven using LinuxCNC

2013-11-09 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 09.11.13 12:14, andy pugh wrote: On 9 November 2013 11:54, Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net wrote: Fortunately the temperature in a reflow oven needn't be regulated to within one degree, AIUI, because the A/D converter on an AVR (Arduino) or any other 8 bit MCU that I've come

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2013-11-09 Thread aaron moore
I have a stepper system and know nothing about servo cycles. - Original Message - From: Belli Button Sent: 11/09/13 11:47 AM To: 'Enhanced Machine Controller \(EMC\)' Subject: Re: [Emc-users] (no subject) I think LCNC can only execute one Gcode per servo cycle. Does it help to reduce

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)Rotary problems

2013-11-09 Thread aaron moore
Marius Thanks for your replymakes sense. Does G64 p# work on rotary files/systems? It didn't seem to when I ran it. Do you have any tips for reducing the numer of moves in a job? Sorry. I forgot to put a subject up top, Aaron - Original Message - From: Marius Liebenberg Sent: 11/09/13

Re: [Emc-users] Fanuc 420F 6-axis robot

2013-11-09 Thread Duesentrieb Yahoo
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Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)

2013-11-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 November 2013 10:11:49 Marius Liebenberg did opine: I don't think it will help as the problem is acceleration over distance. I.E. Distance of move to short to reach max feed rate. The other problem no one has mentioned is that his LCNC machine is old slow, however the OP did

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)Rotary problems

2013-11-09 Thread Marius Liebenberg
Aaron G64 will have some effect but I cannot say how much. The amount of moves are really determined by you cam software. Some people do an aggressive roughing cycle to use as little time as possible and then they can afford the time spent on the finishing cut. What you can try is to make your

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
I was recently looking at task, which also looked like it had no source. After poking around a while, it looks like task, and likely halui, are made up from other files brought to gether by the local makefile. I think having a good understanding of the make system, which I don't possess,

Re: [Emc-users] Converting a Euro placer pick-and-place machine to LinuxCNC

2013-11-09 Thread Jon Elson
David Armstrong wrote: have you taken a look at OpenPnP http://openpnp.org it's written in java and communicates to Linuxcnc Looks interesting, but I can't see much indication of what they've accomplished. I browsed the Google group but couldn't see much there that really showed what they

Re: [Emc-users] Controlling an infrared reflow oven using LinuxCNC

2013-11-09 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 11/08/2013 02:38 PM, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: Dear all, I need to know to what extend Linux CNC could be used to manage an infrared SMT reflow oven. Any ideas are welcome. Linuxcnc could handle your oven control. In my opinion the advantages would be: -Common, cheap,

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread Kent Reed
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings; It appears that /usr/bin/halui has never been edited and rebuilt since a long time back. When the camview-emc stanza for [HALUI] is added to the ini file, I am getting a whole raft load of errors because halui

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 November 2013 11:11:40 Kirk Wallace did opine: I was recently looking at task, which also looked like it had no source. After poking around a while, it looks like task, and likely halui, are made up from other files brought to gether by the local makefile. I think having a good

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread David Armstrong
On 09/11/13 16:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2013 11:11:40 Kirk Wallace did opine: I was recently looking at task, which also looked like it had no source. After poking around a while, it looks like task, and likely halui, are made up from other files brought to gether by

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread David Armstrong
On 09/11/13 16:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2013 11:11:40 Kirk Wallace did opine: I was recently looking at task, which also looked like it had no source. After poking around a while, it looks like task, and likely halui, are made up from other files brought to gether by

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 November 2013 12:00:34 Kent Reed did opine: On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings; It appears that /usr/bin/halui has never been edited and rebuilt since a long time back. When the camview-emc stanza for [HALUI] is added to

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 November 2013 12:36:00 David Armstrong did opine: On 09/11/13 16:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2013 11:11:40 Kirk Wallace did opine: I was recently looking at task, which also looked like it had no source. After poking around a while, it looks like task,

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 November 2013 12:42:46 David Armstrong did opine: On 09/11/13 16:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2013 11:11:40 Kirk Wallace did opine: I was recently looking at task, which also looked like it had no source. After poking around a while, it looks like task,

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread David Armstrong
On 09/11/13 17:31, Gene Heskett wrote: halio.c:7:21: error: GL/glut.h: No such file or directory you seem to be missing the freeglut3 librarys Dave -- November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread David Armstrong
On 09/11/13 17:44, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2013 12:42:46 David Armstrong did opine: On 09/11/13 16:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2013 11:11:40 Kirk Wallace did opine: I was recently looking at task, which also looked like it had no source. After poking

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread David Armstrong
On 09/11/13 17:51, David Armstrong wrote: On 09/11/13 17:44, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2013 12:42:46 David Armstrong did opine: On 09/11/13 16:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2013 11:11:40 Kirk Wallace did opine: I was recently looking at task, which also

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread andy pugh
On 9 November 2013 17:31, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: So I am confused when you say it is part of the LinuxCNC build? Me goes off scratching head. :) You seem to be using the words halui and halio interchangeably. Computers are a lot less flexible. -- atp If you can't fix it, you

Re: [Emc-users] gcmc - v1.1.1

2013-11-09 Thread alan
I also think this is a good idea. To test it I have quickly rewritten my g-code wheels program see attached file. It currently works only for paths cut in XY plane using XY movements. I cannot check this but the axis path plot look ok. My setup is a rotary system so I need to convert all

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 November 2013 13:50:32 David Armstrong did opine: On 09/11/13 17:31, Gene Heskett wrote: halio.c:7:21: error: GL/glut.h: No such file or directory you seem to be missing the freeglut3 librarys Dave I put that in, which ripped out a bunch of x11-mesa stuff. Built it,

Re: [Emc-users] gcmc - v1.1.1

2013-11-09 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 11/09/2013 07:40 PM, alan wrote: I also think this is a good idea. To test it I have quickly rewritten my g-code wheels program see attached file. It currently works only for paths cut in XY plane using XY movements. I cannot check this but the axis path plot look ok. Nice pattern. I'll

Re: [Emc-users] Something that bugs me

2013-11-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 November 2013 15:55:25 andy pugh did opine: On 9 November 2013 17:31, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: So I am confused when you say it is part of the LinuxCNC build? Me goes off scratching head. :) You seem to be using the words halui and halio interchangeably.

Re: [Emc-users] Converting a Euro placer pick-and-place machine to LinuxCNC

2013-11-09 Thread Marius Liebenberg
My impression as well. I found it very difficult to make head or tail out of what is going on there. On 2013/11/09 06:34 PM, Jon Elson wrote: David Armstrong wrote: have you taken a look at OpenPnP http://openpnp.org it's written in java and communicates to Linuxcnc Looks interesting,

Re: [Emc-users] gcmc - v1.1.1

2013-11-09 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 11/09/2013 07:40 PM, alan wrote: To test it I have quickly rewritten my g-code wheels program see attached file. It currently works only for paths cut in XY plane using XY movements. I cannot check this but the axis path plot look ok. I made some small changes to the code. It runs a bit

Re: [Emc-users] Converting a Euro placer pick-and-place machine to LinuxCNC

2013-11-09 Thread Jon Elson
Marius Liebenberg wrote: My impression as well. I found it very difficult to make head or tail out of what is going on there. There is a video of a machine placing 0604 parts from tape, and it seems to work, but there was no info, screen shots or other indications of what they were doing.

Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)Rotary problems

2013-11-09 Thread Marius Alksnys
Aaron, Marius L. is right about current LinuxCNC behaviour, but I would not say so about any CNC machine when you can let some amount of error in your toolpath, what G64P..Q.. (BTW, I suggest using Q parameter too) should do, but it does not do much in LinuxCNC and your case actually yet.

Re: [Emc-users] Way to control 6 axis robot, jerk limitation. Araisrobo?

2013-11-09 Thread Yishin Li
Hello Marius, On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Marius Alksnys marius.alks...@gmail.comwrote: I am using MESA 5i23, 8i20, 7i49 (resolver card). I have 7i43-P (but without USB). Now I have even more questions: Isn't it possible to run some simulation without a hardware? For simulation, run