Re: [Emc-users] Rewiring the BP

2015-12-29 Thread Jerry Scharf
Hi, RS232 is an old connection from terminals (DTE) to modems (DCE). at some point, every wire in the 25 line cable had active signals. To connect two DTEs together, you need a "null modem" crossover. The most typical null modem does the following. (I will note the pin number on the DB25 conector

Re: [Emc-users] Rewiring the BP

2015-12-29 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 12/29/2015 08:59 PM, John Thornton wrote: > An update, I got the serial isolator but it did not work out of the box. > It had something about DTE and DCE that I didn't understand how to tell > what the GS2 uses and can't find anything about DTE or DCE in the manual... DTE/DCE is whether you n

Re: [Emc-users] Rewiring the BP

2015-12-29 Thread John Thornton
An update, I got the serial isolator but it did not work out of the box. It had something about DTE and DCE that I didn't understand how to tell what the GS2 uses and can't find anything about DTE or DCE in the manual... JT On 12/25/2015 4:51 PM, John Thornton wrote: > I think a fresh thread is

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle control

2015-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 December 2015 11:35:09 Todd Zuercher wrote: > That is fine if he has spindle feed back, but if not, then the best > option is to use the at speed output from his VFD. > If it has such a beast. I'd assume todays stuff would be expected to have that as a given. But that means you are

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle control

2015-12-29 Thread Todd Zuercher
That is fine if he has spindle feed back, but if not, then the best option is to use the at speed output from his VFD. All you need to do is net the input pin motion.spindle-at-speed to the signal from your VFD, it is that simple. So if your VFD signal is connected to the parallel port pin #15

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle control

2015-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 December 2015 09:59:34 lloyd wilson wrote: > I'm trying to add a pyvcp panel to control a spindle vfd. To take > advantage of the 'at-speed' signal from the vfd to inhibit motion > until ready, the motion component of LCNC needs to be aware of the > spindle command state- from the do

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle control

2015-12-29 Thread Sarah Armstrong
arh , if i'm reading correctly , you wish to use an external output form your vfd to trigger ? , hence an input pin the spindle at speed signal is internally generated within linuxcnc , using the spindle rpm encoder so therfore does not need an input from the vfd directly to use . so long as your

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle control

2015-12-29 Thread Dave Caroline
motion.spindle-at-speed IN BIT the IN states it is an input so you already found it. that pin being in the pins section of http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/motion.9.html Dave Caroline --

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle control

2015-12-29 Thread Sarah Armstrong
you can use stepconf to produce a configuration , you usually see a sets spindle-at-speed true , this overides the spindle at speed it may be in your postgui.hal file . comment it out and you should be ok On 29 December 2015 at 14:59, lloyd wilson wrote: > I'm trying to add a pyvcp panel to

[Emc-users] Spindle control

2015-12-29 Thread lloyd wilson
I'm trying to add a pyvcp panel to control a spindle vfd. To take advantage of the 'at-speed' signal from the vfd to inhibit motion until ready, the motion component of LCNC needs to be aware of the spindle command state- from the documentation: *motion.spindle-at-speed* IN BIT Motion will pau

Re: [Emc-users] Cutsim update

2015-12-29 Thread Les Newell
Hi Anders, Just a note to add to the instructions. On a pretty bare Ubuntu install I needed apt-get install libqglviewer-dev libboost-all-dev I tried opening a file as per the instructions but when I hit play I just get an error: Interpreter exited with error Unable to a open file. I have a

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on Fujitsu Siemens FUTRO S400

2015-12-29 Thread andy pugh
On 29 December 2015 at 06:53, Paul Lacatus wrote: > Please indicate me where can I find a procedure to transfer the setting for > my MF 70 from my old Linux CNC with 2.6 . I have found some paragraphs about > and I have understood that is not a copy only procedure. Some more details ? It shoul

Re: [Emc-users] Advice needed

2015-12-29 Thread John Thornton
Here is an example of a simple HAL spool winder, not that it has anything to do with a beam saw just showing simple control of a device. http://gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/examples.html Do you have a photo of the beam saw? JT On 12/28/2015 6:30 PM, CNC wrote: > Hello all > > I have an old beam saw th

[Emc-users] Cutsim update

2015-12-29 Thread Anders Wallin
Hi all, I was delighted to see that Kasuyasu Hamada has picked up my old cutsim work from 2011 and made it into a working 5-axis prototype application. It now looks like this: https://youtu.be/aSwDVi8W2XM and code over here: https://github.com/KASUYASU/cutsim It uses a linuxcnc-derived g-code int