Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread R C
ah ok, It sounds like the coordinate systems in essence are the same,  they just have a different origin, for all the other parts,   it's just the same thing, just translated and/or rotated for another part? Ron On 9/10/20 8:04 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 09/10/2020 08:28 PM, R C wrote: I f

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread Jon Elson
On 09/10/2020 08:28 PM, R C wrote: I figured out the "touch off", and that it 'works' the same as homing, functionally. I wondered what all the different coordinate systems are for, their differnces. (I know what a coordinat system is, mathematician here.) This allows you to set up an offse

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread R C
I figured out the "touch off", and that it 'works' the same as homing, functionally. I wondered what all the different coordinate systems are for, their differnces. (I know what a coordinat system is, mathematician here.) Ron On 9/10/20 6:53 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 09/10/2020 05:59 PM,

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread Jon Elson
On 09/10/2020 05:59 PM, R C wrote: I was just playing with it a bit, I have the idea, that , like homing is done per axis, "touching Off" is done per axis too? Yes, you should be able to select the axis that is to have its offset changed and then enter what that coordinate should be set to.

Re: [Emc-users] Q for Peter CW.

2020-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 September 2020 19:53:16 andy pugh wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 22:46, Gene Heskett wrote: > > True but subject to the time granularity of the servo-loop, and not > > fast enough to catch the first step without thinking about addf > > ordering. > > The step-gen won't make steps

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread R C
On 9/10/20 5:49 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 10 September 2020 18:50:03 jrmitchellj wrote: On a Mill setup, touch-off only affects the Z axis. You will need to find your X0, and Y0 positions. I use the end key to bring up the dialog and set the offset. --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche

Re: [Emc-users] Q for Peter CW.

2020-09-10 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 22:46, Gene Heskett wrote: > True but subject to the time granularity of the servo-loop, and not fast > enough to catch the first step without thinking about addf ordering. The step-gen won't make steps until it sees the new target. So running the step-gen servo-thread sec

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 22:51, R C wrote: > this is probably a rookie question, but sometime when I do a "Touch > Off", the Z-position indeed becomes 0, but the X and Y are not. Then > in teh axis program, it will still go to the "first" spot where it needs > to start milling There are two di

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 September 2020 18:59:09 R C wrote: > I was just playing with it a bit, > > > I have the idea, that , like homing is done per axis, "touching Off" > is done per axis too? > yes, and has forever here. > > thanks, > > > Ron > > On 9/10/20 4:50 PM, jrmitchellj wrote: > > On a Mill setup

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 September 2020 18:50:03 jrmitchellj wrote: > On a Mill setup, touch-off only affects the Z axis. You will need to > find your X0, and Y0 positions. I use the end key to bring up the > dialog and set the offset. > > --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > jrmitche...@gmail.com > It works for all 4

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-PC

2020-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 September 2020 18:32:41 Eric Keller wrote: > Gene, do you have pictures of your sheldon? > Yes, I've posted some to the list so they s/b in the archive. Yell if you can't find them. There has been a couple changes since, the rpi3 is now an rpi4, and a honking big z-motor that was

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread R C
yup,  that's why I noticed too.  I thought "touch off" would be more like "this is (0, 0, 0)"  and just hit that button once... I guess I got lucky a few times. On 9/10/20 5:28 PM, Dave Matthews wrote: That is how I do it. There are three radio buttons, one for each axis. It defaults to th

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread Dave Matthews
That is how I do it. There are three radio buttons, one for each axis. It defaults to the last axis moved which is usually z. Dave On Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 19:01 R C wrote: > I was just playing with it a bit, > > > I have the idea, that , like homing is done per axis, "touching Off" is > done pe

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread R C
I was just playing with it a bit, I have the idea, that , like homing is done per axis, "touching Off" is done per axis too? thanks, Ron On 9/10/20 4:50 PM, jrmitchellj wrote: On a Mill setup, touch-off only affects the Z axis. You will need to find your X0, and Y0 positions. I us

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread jrmitchellj
On a Mill setup, touch-off only affects the Z axis. You will need to find your X0, and Y0 positions. I use the end key to bring up the dialog and set the offset. --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com "Good enough is the enemy of excellence"author unknown On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 2:51 P

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-PC

2020-09-10 Thread Eric Keller
Gene, do you have pictures of your sheldon? On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 5:30 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2020 13:53:53 Scott Harwell via Emc-users wrote: > > > I'm testing on the HP8300 $115 with keyboard and mouse from Newegg. > > It looks good but I have two problems (proba

Re: [Emc-users] Q for Peter CW.

2020-09-10 Thread Sam Sokolik
I think peters solution would work just fine. You have acceleration time. It isn't like the stepper is going to be instantly moving at to speed. The leadshine seems to have this built in. After it doesn't see any steps it lowers power. Once it sees steps - it raises it back up. Unknown to linu

Re: [Emc-users] cnc axis "Touch Off"

2020-09-10 Thread R C
Hello, this is probably a rookie question, but sometime when I do a "Touch Off",  the Z-position indeed becomes 0,  but the X and Y are not.   Then in teh axis program, it will still go to the "first" spot where it needs to start milling, and in the  drawing it fllows the correct lines/patte

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-PC

2020-09-10 Thread Sam Sokolik
And this does things that the engineers at K&T could only dream of... Like arc radius bigger than 9." ;) On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2020 13:53:53 Scott Harwell via Emc-users wrote: > > > I'm testing on the HP8300 $115 with keyboard a

Re: [Emc-users] Q for Peter CW.

2020-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 September 2020 15:07:51 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:53:24 -0400 > > From: Gene Heskett > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > Subject: [Emc-user

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-PC

2020-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 September 2020 13:53:53 Scott Harwell via Emc-users wrote: > I'm testing on the HP8300  $115 with keyboard and mouse from Newegg. > It looks good but I have two problems (probably me). No root password > and power management time out. > > Scott > > > On Thursday, September 10,

Re: [Emc-users] Q for Peter CW.

2020-09-10 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:53:24 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Subject: [Emc-users] Q for Peter CW. Greetings Peter; How hard would it be to convert the joint.#.free-

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-PC

2020-09-10 Thread andy pugh
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 18:56, Scott Harwell via Emc-users wrote: > > I'm testing on the HP8300 $115 with keyboard and mouse from Newegg. It > looks good but I have two problems (probably me). No root password and power > management time out. The no-root-password is deliberate as, if a root pa

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-PC

2020-09-10 Thread Scott Harwell via Emc-users
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Re: [Emc-users] Mini-PC

2020-09-10 Thread Scott Harwell via Emc-users
I'm testing on the HP8300  $115 with keyboard and mouse from Newegg. It looks good but I have two problems (probably me). No root password and power management time out. Scott On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 11:02:19 AM CDT, Sam Sokolik wrote: I just downloaded the buster 2.8 iso

[Emc-users] Q for Peter CW.

2020-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings Peter; How hard would it be to convert the joint.#.free-tp-enable into move-is-in-progress signal? Prowling around with a hal-meter, I found this signal is true for the duration of a keyboard jog, but doesn't react during an gcode move from the mdi command line, or a keyboard jog aft

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-PC

2020-09-10 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Just to inform you guys, as Sam did. I tried it yesterday on a MSI A68HM-E33 V2 motherboard with an AMD A6 7480 processor, with onboard video support. I got 80 usecs of jitter on the servo thread with 3 instances of glxgears running almost an hour approximately. LinuxCNC runs well with the sim con

Re: [Emc-users] Mini-PC

2020-09-10 Thread Sam Sokolik
I just downloaded the buster 2.8 iso and tested it on an 8200 (8300 usually runs just slightly better in my experience) This was overnight with glxgears running. On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:45 PM Bruce Layne wrote: > > > On 9/8/20 12:48 PM, Dave Matthews wrote: > > A few weeks ago someone menti

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.8.0 is released

2020-09-10 Thread Alan Condit
Andy, Thanks for all the hard work on the release of LinuxCNC 2.8.0. It seemed at times that it was never going to happen. So many other changes intervening: EOL for Wheezy, introduction of new linux versions, almost cessation of work on RTAI, introduction of RT Preempt, etc. I felt your frustra