Re: [Emc-users] email failures.

2018-03-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 March 2018 at 02:20, Kurt Jacobson wrote: > I have noticed lately that several old SourceForge and > Yahoo list are moving to groups.io, so I guess others are either having > trouble with SF or think it is not going to be around for much longer It might be simpler to run mailman on a server

Re: [Emc-users] non-contact position sensors, surprisingly good performance.

2018-03-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 March 2018 at 01:23, Chris Albertson wrote: > I'm not contributing to EMC development so I have no say in how to do > it. But I'd suggest a move to Github. The code moved to Github some time ago. ( https://github.com/LinuxCNC ) Moving a mailing list is more tricky as people will have the e

Re: [Emc-users] email failures.

2018-03-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/5/2018 4:19 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 5 March 2018 at 02:20, Kurt Jacobson wrote: >> I have noticed lately that several old SourceForge and >> Yahoo list are moving to groups.io, so I guess others are either having >> trouble with SF or think it is not going to be around for much longer > >

Re: [Emc-users] non-contact position sensors, surprisingly good performance.

2018-03-05 Thread Mark
On 03/04/2018 08:22 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Seem like you machine runs into some form of resonance at 7 to 20 ipm. I'd like to see a controllers that can be reconfigured in real time. for low speeds you might use 1/8 steps them move to

Re: [Emc-users] Bringing the saw beveler back to life

2018-03-05 Thread Mark
On 03/04/2018 12:53 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: That is something that Andy wrote, called lincurve, see man 9 lincurve for a basic explanation. What isn't mentioned is that in a motion scenario, it will probably feed a pair of sum2's, one summing the command from motion to the machine in order to sum

Re: [Emc-users] Bringing the saw beveler back to life

2018-03-05 Thread Mark
On 03/04/2018 01:17 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 4 March 2018 at 12:53, Mark wrote: There was something Andy talked about that he wrote, but I don't remember what that was. It was something in hal code if I remember correctly. Sounds like a job for the external_offsets branch, and either a distanc

Re: [Emc-users] Bringing the saw beveler back to life

2018-03-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 March 2018 at 13:07, Mark wrote: > I'm leaning towards lincurve. In order to utilize that, I've got to upgrade > linuxcnc to a bit new version. That's not strictly necessary, the file is a standalone module, you could just download the comp file and sudo comp --install lincurve.comp https:

Re: [Emc-users] Bringing the saw beveler back to life

2018-03-05 Thread Mark
On 03/05/2018 08:56 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 March 2018 at 13:07, Mark wrote: I'm leaning towards lincurve. In order to utilize that, I've got to upgrade linuxcnc to a bit new version. That's not strictly necessary, the file is a standalone module, you could just download the comp file and

Re: [Emc-users] email failures.

2018-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 05 March 2018 07:17:54 Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 3/5/2018 4:19 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 5 March 2018 at 02:20, Kurt Jacobson wrote: > >> I have noticed lately that several old SourceForge and > >> Yahoo list are moving to groups.io, so I guess others are either > >> having tr

Re: [Emc-users] Bringing the saw beveler back to life

2018-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 05 March 2018 08:01:58 Mark wrote: > On 03/04/2018 12:53 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > That is something that Andy wrote, called lincurve, see man 9 > > lincurve for a basic explanation. What isn't mentioned is that in a > > motion scenario, it will probably feed a pair of sum2's, one summ

Re: [Emc-users] Bringing the saw beveler back to life

2018-03-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 March 2018 at 14:17, Mark wrote: >> You set the curve up (rather clunkily) in HAL. If X = 0 is nominal and >> X = 3" is 5 thou high: >> setp lincurve.0.x-val-00 0 >> setp lincurve.0.y-val-00 0 >> setp lincurve.0.x-val-01 3 >> setp lincurve.0.y-val-01 -0.005 >> >> and so-on. > > > Okay, so ho

Re: [Emc-users] Bringing the saw beveler back to life

2018-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 05 March 2018 09:17:00 Mark wrote: > On 03/05/2018 08:56 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 5 March 2018 at 13:07, Mark wrote: > >> I'm leaning towards lincurve. In order to utilize that, I've got > >> to upgrade linuxcnc to a bit new version. > > > > That's not strictly necessary, the file i

Re: [Emc-users] Bringing the saw beveler back to life

2018-03-05 Thread Mark
On 03/05/2018 09:41 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 March 2018 at 14:17, Mark wrote: You set the curve up (rather clunkily) in HAL. If X = 0 is nominal and X = 3" is 5 thou high: setp lincurve.0.x-val-00 0 setp lincurve.0.y-val-00 0 setp lincurve.0.x-val-01 3 setp lincurve.0.y-val-01 -0.005 and so-

Re: [Emc-users] Bringing the saw beveler back to life

2018-03-05 Thread Mark
On 03/05/2018 10:06 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: You lost me on this one.  What is the curve definition?  Speaking of HAL, is the placement order in the main HAL file for something like this going to bite me if it's put in too early or late in the declarations? I remember Gene having issues with some

Re: [Emc-users] Bringing the saw beveler back to life

2018-03-05 Thread John Kasunich
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, at 10:25 AM, Mark wrote: > At any rate, what the question above is asking, does the correction > happen while the X axis is moving to smoothly blend the adjustment, or > does it try to jump to the correction without blending the two axis's moves? The "lin" in lincurve sta

Re: [Emc-users] Bringing the saw beveler back to life

2018-03-05 Thread Mark
On 03/05/2018 10:33 AM, John Kasunich wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, at 10:25 AM, Mark wrote: At any rate, what the question above is asking, does the correction happen while the X axis is moving to smoothly blend the adjustment, or does it try to jump to the correction without blending the two a