Re: [Emc-users] OT: X-Y query

2019-01-13 Thread dave engvall
Not just to be contrary I use the upper left corner of the vise. However, I do admit the upper right is more logical.  For Z my travel so short I don't worry about reaching the bed. Dave On 1/12/19 9:41 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, I always set up my machines with the home posit

Re: [Emc-users] OT: X-Y query

2019-01-13 Thread jrmitchellj
I always reference the fixed jaw. As good as the vices are, the moving jaw can twist slightly if the work you are clamping is not square. As far as which corner of the jaw you reference to, do what you are most comfortable with, the machine will obey the command set you send it On some parts I h

[Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-13 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; In search of something, anything that might give me a clue as to why about a months work on custompanel.xml was killing linuxcnc, I installed xmlindent, and xmlcopyeditor. Thinking I might find a clue in the re-indented code, I checked the man page for xmlindent. But it has only

Re: [Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-13 Thread Mark Wendt
Didn't have it backed up anywhere? Mark On Sun, Jan 13, 2019, 19:47 Gene Heskett Greetings all; > > In search of something, anything that might give me a clue as to why > about a months work on custompanel.xml was killing linuxcnc, I installed > xmlindent, and xmlcopyeditor. > > Thinking I might

Re: [Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 13 January 2019 20:01:16 Mark Wendt wrote: > Didn't have it backed up anywhere? Yeah, by amanda, but thats 18+ hours old and way the hell outta date by now. I've enough unused garbage hanging around in that config dir now. But I should be able to extract the tally leds I had added to

Re: [Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-13 Thread Chris Albertson
For editing XML, I just use Eclipse. It's default HTML editor will color hi light XML. But if you are not doing software development then Eclipse will not be something you already have. But other editors have language plug-ins will certainly have one for XML that will do colored syntax hi light

Re: [Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
Have the authors of those programs ever actually used a properly functioning text editing program? Can xmlcopyeditor even open the files it saves?I have, several times over the years, run into programs that could save in formats they could not open, or would auto-corrupt files they'd just saved

Re: [Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 13 January 2019 22:24:24 Chris Albertson wrote: > For editing XML, I just use Eclipse. It's default HTML editor will > color hi light XML. But if you are not doing software development > then Eclipse will not be something you already have. But other > editors have language plug-ins wi

Re: [Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 13 January 2019 22:39:54 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > Have the authors of those programs ever actually used a properly > functioning text editing program? Can xmlcopyeditor even open the > files it saves? yes, np. > I have, several times over the years, run into programs > tha

[Emc-users] Fusion360 gcode= "Radius to end arc differs from radius start"

2019-01-13 Thread Danny Miller
I'm managing a community shop with the CNC I designed and built. It's running on LinuxCNC 2.7.4 I was told people brought in some Fusion360-generated code that created an error "Radius to end arc differs from radius start". Nobody has provided me that gcode, so I have no further details. Googl