[Emc-users] a request

2015-10-18 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear Sirs, I would like to ask you to quit sending me any more emails. I have changed my area of interest to something other than CNC machines now. Please do not send me more emails. Thanks Farzin Kamangar

[Emc-users] Touchy interface question

2012-02-04 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I have a qestion about spindle brake for touchy interface. If I want to have a button to use spindle brake and make it on or off, how can I use the touchy.emc_interface.emc_control to turn the brake on and off? I need something like

Re: [Emc-users] touchy interface

2012-01-26 Thread Farzin Kamangar
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 03:32:02PM +0330, Farzin Kamangar wrote: Hello, dear EMC users, Regarding the touchy interface, I have a problem on one computer and that is in the MDI page with G shown as the command, when

[Emc-users] touchy interface

2012-01-23 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hello, dear EMC users, Regarding the touchy interface, I have a problem on one computer and that is in the MDI page with G shown as the command, when I enter 0 or 1 for G0 or G1 and with pushing the Next button I see the lines X Y Z show up for getting their coordinates just the first time

[Emc-users] Commanded positions

2012-01-08 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I was wondering how I could get the commanded positions, meaning the commanded positions from Gcode, and show them on the GUI. In the code for AXIS GUI it says we could read it from emc.stat.position, but I think this is not a correct statement. The actual positions is read

Re: [Emc-users] Commanded positions

2012-01-08 Thread Farzin Kamangar
is correct. I was looking for an interface from emc.stat which can show the correct commanded position. Farzin On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Farzin Kamangar wrote: Dear EMC users, I was wondering how I could get the commanded positions, meaning

[Emc-users] tool changer question

2011-11-14 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hello, dear EMC users; Considering the tool changing process, is there a way to send some movement commands from PLC to CNC? I have entered the TOOL_CHANGE_POSITION and TOOL_CHANGE_QUILL_UP in the INI file and in the EMCIO section. This is fine and causes the tool go to the tool change

[Emc-users] Generating messages regarding inputs changing their levels

2011-11-11 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hello, dear EMC users; I checked all the manuals but I did not find anything regarding generation of user error messages. I need to show a message when one of my axis drives have an alarm and cannot move the axis. I have connected one of the drive outputs to one of parallel port inputs. When

[Emc-users] emc interface with tcl in Mini GUI

2011-10-24 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hello Dear EMC users, I was looking at the mini.tcl file for the MINI GUI for EMC yesterday. I was wondering how I could find the emc interface documentation for this GUI. I did not see any module import for the interfaces like : emc_ini, emc_home, emc_mode, emc_machine, emc_spindle, emc_abort,

[Emc-users] Angular axis A moving, tool not moving in Axis interface

2011-10-12 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I have a question regarding the tool movement when angular axis A is moving. When the angular axis A is moving, tool is not moving in the openGL graphic page in the axis interface. I checked the tool when angular B and angular C axes move around Y and Z axes in the graphic page

[Emc-users] EMC2 error at startup related to Parallel Port

2011-08-16 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I have a problem when starting EMC2. I have enclosed the error-file with this email. Sometimes I do not have this problem at all when exiting EMC and running it again many times. But I cannot run EMC when the problem starts. It keeps on giving the same error (non stop). I have

[Emc-users] touchy interface

2011-08-09 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, Hi, I am using the TOUCHY interface and I have a problem with the length unit. Whatever length I enter in MDI or in a program in AUTO mode is considered in INCH. I entered G21 to make the controller consider the length unit MM, but it does not pay attention to it. I need your

[Emc-users] Operation modes

2011-08-04 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hello EMC users, We have a selector on our control panel with the following options for modes of operation: AUTO - MDI - HANDWHEEL - CONTINUOUS - INCREMENTAL 1 - INCREMENTAL 10 - INCREMENTAL 100. The four last modes are actually used in manual mode. I can use the halui mode for the modes

[Emc-users] Using index pulse for homing

2011-08-03 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I am going to use the Z pulse of my servo motor in order to go home with the flag HOME_USE_INDEX = YES. Now my question is: where should I connect my index pulse as an input? Do I have to use a HAL encoder and set its encoder.0.index-enable bit to YES or what. What is the

[Emc-users] Adding parallel port

2011-07-30 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hello EMC users, I have difficulty when adding additional parallel ports (other than the parallel port on mother board) and configuring them as input. When I monitor the pins 2 to 9 they are always off, but the pins 10 or 11 are on. I do not have this problem when I configure the parallel port

[Emc-users] A question

2011-07-15 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear Sirs, I want to make a PCI card for EMC. I have experience of making ISA and PCI I/O board, but I have never done it for Linux. Can you give me some information how can I go ahead for EMC? Do I need to write a driver for that? Where is the interface data of EMC

[Emc-users] Using index pulse for homing

2011-04-09 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I am using a servo-motor which has a Z pulse output and I used a software counter module and connected this signal to the phase-Z of this module. My problem is that I am seeing weird behaviour when I ask the axis to go home. Would you please let me know what I need for the

[Emc-users] Turning spindle off

2011-02-16 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I was asked to make the following change in the controller behaviour. As you know when we want to stop the running program and we push the stop program button, program stops and so does spindle from turning. Now the request is: when we stop the program by pressing the stop

[Emc-users] Jog plus and jog minus using I/O

2011-02-09 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hello EMC users, I was wondering if I could use HAL for jog plus and jog minus for any axis. This is like using the + and - buttons for the selected axis in the manual page. The idea is to use I/O through the parallel port for jog plus and jog minus. Thanks Farzin

[Emc-users] Handwheel use

2011-02-05 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hello, Dear EMC users I read the getting started, Integrator, Hall and User manuals but I could not find anything about 'Handwheel and how it could be connected to a machine running with EMC2. I need help on that. Thanks for all the help and guidance so far. Farzin

[Emc-users] Spindle

2011-01-29 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, As you know when running a program, we can stop the program run by clicking on Stop button. Now by clicking the Stop button, if spindle is also running during the program run it stops turning too. Is there anyway that if we click on the Stop button, we stop the program from

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port pins

2011-01-29 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hi Steve, During the period between PC on and machine on, some of the parallel port pins are on which make some outputs on. How do I know which pins are on during that period and which pins are off. This is all before the time EMC starts. Thanks Farzin On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Steve

[Emc-users] Specifications for EMC

2011-01-16 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear Emc users, Would you please help me find specifications for something like : emc.stat.settings[0], [1], [2], etc. I am new to emc and sorry for low level questions. I am trying to get stronger on both Linux and emc. Thanks, Farzin

[Emc-users] The specifications for emc

2011-01-12 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I was wondering how I can find the specs for somethings like emc.stat.settings[0]. I need a thorough descriptions for some stuff to have a better understanding of what is happening. Thanks for your help, Farzin

[Emc-users] Isolating inputs to the Parallel port pins

2011-01-12 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I am using the cable shield and the input pins of the parallel ports to make any input on or off. When the shield is not connected to the input pin it is on or in 1 state and when it is connected to the pin it makes the pin off or have zero level. Now my concern is that how

[Emc-users] Commanded feed

2011-01-08 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I was going to show the commanded feed from the Gcode program in the AXIS Gui. This way we could see feed from Gcode instructions like F1000 somewhere in terms of unit length per minute. Would you please let me know how I can read this from something like emc.stat.??? updated all

[Emc-users] Commanded feed in the Gcode program

2011-01-04 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hello folks, I was going to show the commanded feed in unit length per minute from the Gcode (Fxxx) on Axis graphics. As you know we have the actual feed calculated from the current velocity reading from emc.stat.current_vel which is in unit length per second. Now how can I read the commanded

[Emc-users] Interface with the parallel port

2010-10-10 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hello guys, I have a question regarding an output signal on the parallel port. I need to know how I can interface an output signal on the parport with for instance a signal on a drive for spindle. For example I have a 0 and five volt signal on pin-2-out and I want to use it to turn spindle

Re: [Emc-users] Questions about changing the error message texts

2010-07-18 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear Sirs, I would like to change and modify some of the English language messages, notifications, and I also need to know how to rebuild the emc software, using makefiles. I need help on how to do that. What are the ingredients of the emc software to build it? What parts can I configure or

Re: [Emc-users] Questions about changing the error message texts

2010-07-05 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Hello Jeff, I am new to the EMC and the source code and the source tree. I still do not have git installed on my computer and do not know what version of git I should use and install and do not know if I really need git installed to search for the error messages. I could not find the control.c

[Emc-users] Questions about changing the error message texts

2010-06-17 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear Sirs, I am going to change some error messages from emc. These errors are generated when we poll the emc.error_channel. I just need to know where these error messages are coming and read from, so I could change their texts to make them clearer. Thanks for the help. F.Kamangar