[Emc-users] Homann Designs ModIO

2020-02-05 Thread John Dammeyer
The wiki for this is out of date. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ModIO First of course the folder linkages should now read linuxcnc rather than EMC2. Also the document states: Both Driver Directories Need modbus.c modbus.h findbindir find-libdir find-modinc B

Re: [Emc-users] mesa card trouble shooting

2020-02-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 February 2020 23:37:25 andrew beck wrote: > Hi guys I have a little problem... > > I have a mesa 5i25 7i76 combo which was working 4 months ago. I blew > up a servo drive and only just got back to the project a couple of > months ago. the original config stopped working when I st

Re: [Emc-users] mesa card trouble shooting

2020-02-05 Thread andrew beck
Hi guys ok well I connected up another pc and this one works fine. I have a 24v dc powersupply feeding the mesa 7i76 field io and everything seems to work fine. then I connected it back to my old pc and that works fine also now once it is not connected up to the machine. Its a bit strange. I

[Emc-users] mesa card trouble shooting

2020-02-05 Thread andrew beck
Hi guys I have a little problem... I have a mesa 5i25 7i76 combo which was working 4 months ago. I blew up a servo drive and only just got back to the project a couple of months ago. the original config stopped working when I started it up again and came up with a error message."Pin 'hm2_5i2

Re: [Emc-users] Probing a Profile

2020-02-05 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 21:25, Todd Zuercher wrote: > To deal with probe tip, probe the perimeter, connect the dots, then just > offset the shape you made with the probe's tip radius. That works a treat once the points are in the CAD. And here is the G-code routine I used. ;probe a profile ;the

Re: [Emc-users] Probing a Profile --> Coordinate measurement machine

2020-02-05 Thread Eric Keller
I have programmed a cmm, but I really don't remember anything about it. Rapid moves are like g code, but I think the one I used had a probe command. On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 1:00 PM N wrote: > Anyone used a coordinate measurement machine and know how they do? > > Maybe I happen to have manual but

Re: [Emc-users] Probing a Profile --> Coordinate measurement machine

2020-02-05 Thread N
Anyone used a coordinate measurement machine and know how they do? Maybe I happen to have manual but will probably not have to much time to look into it this week. > I think it comes down to constructing lines perp to the profile at > probed points. CMM's obviously take care of this somehow. >

Re: [Emc-users] Open source CNC architecture --> RTOSes

2020-02-05 Thread N
On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 11:21:25 -0800 Chris Albertson wrote: > If LinuxCNC where to be ported, the best platform likely would not use an > OS like Linus or BSD or Windows.The RTOSes all are very different from > the more general-purpose OSes. Linux.BSD/Windows all have kernels and > can load

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-05 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 2020-02-05 01:57, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 04:25, Thomas D. Dean wrote: How do I do a clean install of buster rtai and llinuxcnc? Experimental at the moment. But: 1) Install Buster 2) Download the .debs at www.linuxcnc.org/temp 3) Install the Linux-image and Linux-headers de

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-05 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 04:25, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > How do I do a clean install of buster rtai and llinuxcnc? Experimental at the moment. But: 1) Install Buster 2) Download the .debs at www.linuxcnc.org/temp 3) Install the Linux-image and Linux-headers debs sudo apt-get install ./linux-ima

Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc 2.9.0 hangs

2020-02-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
A PCI Express SATA II card with 4 ports can be bought pretty cheaply. PCI SATA cards can be found for around $15 for SATA 1.0 and a bit higher for SATA II, but they'll bottleneck SATA II devices. Found something I thought would never exist, and it's at a totally not stupidly insane price, 2 and