Re: [Emc-users] ldconfig question

2013-11-13 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 11/13/2013 09:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have added /usr/lib/camunits to one of the files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, and have verified that path is correct, but I don't seem to be able to make a sudo ldconfig -v|less show me that it is seeing a single one of the dozen plus .so files there.

Re: [Emc-users] ldconfig question

2013-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2013 16:37:00 Bertho Stultiens did opine: On 11/13/2013 09:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have added /usr/lib/camunits to one of the files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, and have verified that path is correct, but I don't seem to be able to make a sudo ldconfig -v|less show

Re: [Emc-users] ldconfig question

2013-11-13 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 11/13/2013 10:37 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have added /usr/lib/camunits to one of the files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, and have verified that path is correct, but I don't seem to be able to make a sudo ldconfig -v|less show me that it is seeing a single one of the dozen plus .so files there. I

Re: [Emc-users] ldconfig question

2013-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2013 16:59:12 Bertho Stultiens did opine: On 11/13/2013 10:37 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have added /usr/lib/camunits to one of the files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, and have verified that path is correct, but I don't seem to be able to make a sudo ldconfig -v|less show

Re: [Emc-users] ldconfig question

2013-11-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 November 2013 17:09:04 Gene Heskett did opine: On Wednesday 13 November 2013 16:59:12 Bertho Stultiens did opine: On 11/13/2013 10:37 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have added /usr/lib/camunits to one of the files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, and have verified that path is correct,

Re: [Emc-users] Linux question

2013-10-20 Thread Marius Liebenberg
And Ubuntu has a setting that will shut down all open applications before shutting down the MB. This way you just push the button for on and again for off. If you loaded LCNC in the startup file, it makes it very easy. On 2013/10/20 05:36 AM, Jon Elson wrote: Terry Christophersen wrote: Hi

[Emc-users] Linux question

2013-10-19 Thread Terry Christophersen
Hi all, When I turn on the main power  switch my computer will come on for a couple of seconds then shut off.I wait for this to happen then push the computer on switch.This is how it been since I switched to a 525. Why does the computer come on without me hitting the computer on switch? Thanks

Re: [Emc-users] Linux question

2013-10-19 Thread Kenneth Lerman
That may depends on the computer configuration. I believe that my Intel board has a jumper to enable that. In some environments, you want the computer to come back online after a power failure. Ken On 10/19/2013 6:38 PM, Terry Christophersen wrote: Hi all, When I turn on the main power

Re: [Emc-users] Linux question

2013-10-19 Thread Jack Coats
You might check bios settings. For servers, I configure them to auto-boot at power on and after any power failure (simulated by a power strip turn off). Desktops are normally configured to power down if they find they were on or off when a power fails. It does sound like the power control is

Re: [Emc-users] Linux question

2013-10-19 Thread Jon Elson
Terry Christophersen wrote: Hi all, When I turn on the main power switch my computer will come on for a couple of seconds then shut off.I wait for this to happen then push the computer on switch.This is how it been since I switched to a 525. Why does the computer come on without me hitting

[Emc-users] A question for the Unimat owners.

2013-05-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Is this an X-Y mill base for a Unimat mill column? Would make a much nicer mill than mounting the headstock on the column over the lathe bed. http://www.PartsByEMC.com/pub/unimat The table is 10-5/8 long. -- Get 100%

Re: [Emc-users] A question for the Unimat owners.

2013-05-31 Thread John Alexander Stewart
Gregg; The Emco Compact 5 head used to have a table like this for doing as you say. (take head off of lathe and put it on an x/y table) The colour looks like it's from Proxxon; (Proxon??) The issue with these Emco/Unimat heads is the lack of Z depth setting, etc. On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:14

Re: [Emc-users] A question for the Unimat owners.

2013-05-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Some more digging shows it must be an earlier version of the Proxxon 24106 compound table. --- On Fri, 5/31/13, John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com wrote: From: John Alexander Stewart ivatt...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Emc-users] A question for the Unimat owners. To: Enhanced Machine

Re: [Emc-users] Modbus Question

2013-05-15 Thread andy pugh
On 15 May 2013 05:48, Todd Zuercher zuerc...@embarqmail.com wrote: Several of the registers of these drives use a format of A chain of two 8 bit unsigned integers to quote the manual. Basically the drive is using 1 register to write two different pieces of data. The

Re: [Emc-users] Modbus Question

2013-05-15 Thread Dave
On 5/15/2013 12:48 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: I have a Modbus question. I hope there are some Modbus gurus listening. I am trying to use mb2hal to control a bunch of VFDs on a gang router . I have successfully gotten mb2hal to communicate with the drives but... Several of the registers of

[Emc-users] Modbus Question

2013-05-14 Thread Todd Zuercher
I have a Modbus question. I hope there are some Modbus gurus listening. I am trying to use mb2hal to control a bunch of VFDs on a gang router . I have successfully gotten mb2hal to communicate with the drives but... Several of the registers of these drives use a format of A chain of two 8 bit

[Emc-users] Sim question

2013-01-30 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I have previously played with gcode on this machine by running linuxcnc and selecting the axis.ini. But just now it threw up the initial splash bar with version number, then virtually locked the machine up, as if the base thread was perhaps set to 15 microseconds. I waited a

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-22 Thread John Thornton
On 1/20/2013 1:02 PM, Chris Morley wrote: oh and .glade is the old ending I think they use .ui now, same thing. you must be using a new version of glade then me. The glade on Ubuntu 10.04 defaults to .glade, if you use .ui then click on the file Qt will take 5 minutes to load and then open

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-22 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/1/22 John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com: On 1/20/2013 1:02 PM, Chris Morley wrote: oh and .glade is the old ending I think they use .ui now, same thing. you must be using a new version of glade then me. The glade on Ubuntu 10.04 defaults to .glade, if you use .ui then click on the file Qt

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-22 Thread John Thornton
You can use any extension you want it is just inconvenient to have to open the file if you don't use .glade. I doubt a glade file made on 10.04 will work with 12.anything due to improvements. If your working in the glade interface designer in 10.04 and select save and put in a file name it

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Morley
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:25:02 -0600 From: bjt...@gmail.com To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Glade question You can use any extension you want it is just inconvenient to have to open the file if you don't use .glade. I doubt a glade file made on 10.04

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-22 Thread Dewey Garrett
In blu174-w477cc65c70a24dc640dc80c0...@phx.gbl Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com writes: There is a big change coming for us: GTK3 In 12.04 GLADE uses GTK3 which is not compatible with GTK2 I'm not sure if you can load GLADE GTK2 version - maybe I've been using xubuntu 12.10 (ubuntu with

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Morley
How can I not use .ui? On 10.04, when selected save as I did not see .glade file type. BTW in 12.04 I cannot open this file, Glade tries to open it and terminates with an error, saying something about missing library gladevcp (I get that error in Latvian, not sure I can translate it

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/1/20 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: Can you post your glade and handler file I put them in my site: www.cutting.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/plasma.ui www.cutting.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/plasma.py -- Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-20 Thread Chris Morley
From: viesturs.la...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:17:26 +0200 To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Glade question 2013/1/20 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: Can you post your glade and handler file I put them in my site: www.cutting.lv

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2013/1/20 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: From: viesturs.la...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:17:26 +0200 To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Glade question 2013/1/20 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: Can you post your glade and handler

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-20 Thread Chris Morley
I put them in my site: www.cutting.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/plasma.ui www.cutting.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/plasma.py -- Viesturs Yes your handler file is not right. Can you just include your GLADE file? I want to load it in glade - copy and paste from website doesn't work.

[Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello! I have created a gladevcp panel. Besides other things it contains also one spinbox and one horizontal scale widgets. I have created adjustments for each of these widgets, where I have set min, max and initial values and also value increments. The thing is that it does not set initial value

Re: [Emc-users] Glade question

2013-01-19 Thread Chris Morley
Can you post your glade and handler file Chris M From: viesturs.la...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:54:21 +0200 To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Glade question Hello! I have created a gladevcp panel. Besides other things it contains also one spinbox

Re: [Emc-users] Hardware Question - Mesa

2012-10-26 Thread mark center
The 5i25 + 7i77 is as close to dead simple easy as my limited knowledge and ability could imagine. All of my problems were user error. The combo-pak comes with firmwares pre-loaded. The only feature I that would have helped was better A/D input resolution and accuracy, but that is a rather odd

[Emc-users] Hardware Question - Mesa

2012-10-25 Thread Gandjpappy
Brand new to Linux and LinuxCNC. I have an old CNC Mill that I am gutting and even though it had been converted with a stand alone motion board, I am thinking about starting over with LinuxCnC. My question is on the Mesa boards. My mill uses servos so it looks like a 5i25 and 7i77 would work

Re: [Emc-users] Hardware Question - Mesa

2012-10-25 Thread andy pugh
On 25 October 2012 23:43, Gandjpappy gandjpa...@aol.com wrote: My question is on the Mesa boards. Don't forget to look at the Pico solutions too. http://www.pico-systems.com/motion.html My mill uses servos so it looks like a 5i25 and 7i77 would work but I read where someone was using a

[Emc-users] makefile question

2012-10-19 Thread lloyd wilson
I'm starting to work on a user interface program for a physical control panel for my hurco mill can't get the makefile to cooperate. The program will essentially provide a subset of the NML messages as defined in halui, but with modbus communication rather that HAL. To verify the build

Re: [Emc-users] makefile question

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 08:42:15PM -0400, lloyd wilson wrote: make: Failed to remake makefile `Makefile'. You can ask make to elaborate on this error; see http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FailedToRemakeMakefile

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 August 2012 04:15:33 dave did opine: On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 12:45 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 24 August 2012 12:26:40 dave did opine: On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:12 +0200, Jan de Kruyf wrote: I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan.

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread Jan de Kruyf
I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. Where does one get it? DuPont makes it if I am not mistaken. It is used to make bearing bushes for valves and the like. The price is not quite up to Moglice standards. But $100 is also quickly paid for that stuff. I forget what

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread Dave Caroline
The hands-down favorite resource in Internet discussions seems to be the 1955 book Machine Tool Reconditioning and Applications of Hand Scraping by Edward Connelly. I see it's offered, presumably as a reprint, by http://www.machinetoolpublications.com/ (see the table contents at

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 August 2012 03:59:31 Jan de Kruyf did opine: I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. Where does one get it? DuPont makes it if I am not mistaken. It is used to make bearing bushes for valves and the like. The price is not quite up to Moglice

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com wrote: The hands-down favorite resource in Internet discussions seems to be the 1955 book Machine Tool Reconditioning and Applications of Hand Scraping by Edward Connelly. I see it's offered, presumably as a reprint, by

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I had to do a bunch of work on the bottom ways on my lathe. The ways varied in thickness the entire length. Mark I took the serial number bumps off first thing, but I think now, since this puppy has quite a few hours on

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread andy pugh
On 24 August 2012 11:12, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: In case anybody is interested in making up a set of tapered saddle gibs, and really smoothening out the travel, here's Rick Kruger's mod to the mini lathe:

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread Mark Wendt
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:19 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 August 2012 11:12, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: In case anybody is interested in making up a set of tapered saddle gibs, and really smoothening out the travel, here's Rick Kruger's mod to the mini lathe:

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 August 2012 05:41:47 Mark Wendt did opine: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I had to do a bunch of work on the bottom ways on my lathe. The ways varied in thickness the entire length. Mark I took the serial number bumps off first

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 8/24/2012 5:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Oh no! Last I knew he only had 3 legs left cuz they weren't going to eat him all at once.:) I thought I was the only one left who knew that joke. People who grow up in farm country have a different view of animals than the 3-rd generation suburban

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread Kenneth Lerman
On 8/24/2012 8:41 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 8/24/2012 5:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Oh no! Last I knew he only had 3 legs left cuz they weren't going to eat him all at once.:) I thought I was the only one left who knew that joke. People who grow up in farm country have a different view of

[Emc-users] Quick question about 7i37

2012-08-24 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello! I looked at 7i37 manual, but did not find it explained: How am I supposed to connect input signal from source, whose ground is connected to 7i37 power supply ground? Is it sufficient to connect only the signal wire, or must I connect also GND? I could not find it anywhere, if GND on

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 August 2012 09:33:05 Kent A. Reed did opine: On 8/24/2012 5:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Oh no! Last I knew he only had 3 legs left cuz they weren't going to eat him all at once.:) I thought I was the only one left who knew that joke. People who grow up in farm country have a

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question about 7i37

2012-08-24 Thread Eric Keller
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.comwrote: Hello! I looked at 7i37 manual, but did not find it explained: How am I supposed to connect input signal from source, whose ground is connected to 7i37 power supply ground? Is it sufficient to connect only the

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread dave
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:12 +0200, Jan de Kruyf wrote: I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. Where does one get it? DuPont makes it if I am not mistaken. It is used to make bearing bushes for valves and the like. The price is not quite up to Moglice

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread dave
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 04:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 24 August 2012 03:59:31 Jan de Kruyf did opine: I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. Where does one get it? DuPont makes it if I am not mistaken. It is used to make bearing bushes for

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question about 7i37

2012-08-24 Thread Peter C. Wallace
Subject: [Emc-users] Quick question about 7i37 Hello! I looked at 7i37 manual, but did not find it explained: How am I supposed to connect input signal from source, whose ground is connected to 7i37 power supply ground? Is it sufficient to connect only the signal wire, or must I connect also GND

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question about 7i37

2012-08-24 Thread Karl Cunningham
On 08/24/2012 07:13 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: Hello! I looked at 7i37 manual, but did not find it explained: How am I supposed to connect input signal from source, whose ground is connected to 7i37 power supply ground? Is it sufficient to connect only the signal wire, or must I connect also

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question about 7i37

2012-08-24 Thread Viesturs Lācis
(EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Quick question about 7i37 Hello! I looked at 7i37 manual, but did not find it explained: How am I supposed to connect input signal from source, whose ground is connected to 7i37 power supply ground? Is it sufficient to connect only

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question about 7i37

2012-08-24 Thread Peter C. Wallace
Thank You, got it! It is the 7i37com that had it much easier to wire up inputs... -- Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto Yes but if you need a contact to ground input or a sinking output the 7I37COM cannot be used. The 7I737/TA are universal

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question about 7i37

2012-08-24 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/24 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: Thank You, got it! It is the 7i37com that had it much easier to wire up inputs... -- Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto Yes but if you need a contact to ground input or a sinking output the 7I37COM

Re: [Emc-users] Quick question about 7i37

2012-08-24 Thread Peter C. Wallace
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Quick question about 7i37 2012/8/24 Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com: Thank You, got it! It is the 7i37com that had it much easier to wire up inputs... -- Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto Yes but if you need a contact

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 August 2012 12:26:40 dave did opine: On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:12 +0200, Jan de Kruyf wrote: I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. Where does one get it? DuPont makes it if I am not mistaken. It is used to make bearing bushes for valves and

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-24 Thread dave
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 12:45 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 24 August 2012 12:26:40 dave did opine: On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:12 +0200, Jan de Kruyf wrote: I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. Where does one get it? DuPont makes it if I am not

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread andy pugh
On 23 August 2012 01:33, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Today as I was reassembling it and attempting to adjust the gib screws, I noted that the top face not only wasn't in contact with the bottom of the slider, the tip of it at the bottom of the carriages v-cut was sharper than the

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Mark Wendt
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the next step of the assembly, I find that I have not fixed a gib problem this POS has had

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread John Thornton
It is very likely your ways are not very precise and fit up properly as well as your gib being junk. Take a look at Nick Muller's videos on cheap chinese ways http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1eOQa1gYiUfeature=player_embedded John On 8/22/2012 6:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Hi all; I am

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:20 AM, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: It is very likely your ways are not very precise and fit up properly as well as your gib being junk. Take a look at Nick Muller's videos on cheap chinese ways

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread andy pugh
On 23 August 2012 13:39, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: I had to do a bunch of work on the bottom ways on my lathe. The ways varied in thickness the entire length. My bottom ways on mine both fitted quite well. Unfortunately they didn't both fit at the same time. Took quite a lot of

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:44 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 August 2012 13:39, Mark Wendt wendt.m...@gmail.com wrote: I had to do a bunch of work on the bottom ways on my lathe. The ways varied in thickness the entire length. My bottom ways on mine both fitted quite well.

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:18:58 andy pugh did opine: On 23 August 2012 01:33, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Today as I was reassembling it and attempting to adjust the gib screws, I noted that the top face not only wasn't in contact with the bottom of the slider, the tip of it

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the next step of the

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Mark Wendt
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, and

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 8/23/2012 12:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up,

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Jan de Kruyf
Hallo, Gene. I have on a few occasions glued brass filled teflon (with an etched surface, otherwise the glue does not hold) onto the running surface of a taper gib. Like 2mm thick or so. The stuff scrapes readily with the back of a stanley knife, quite quick. Blue, scrape, blue, scrape etc. until

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 August 2012 18:36:57 John Thornton did opine: It is very likely your ways are not very precise and fit up properly as well as your gib being junk. Take a look at Nick Muller's videos on cheap chinese ways http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1eOQa1gYiUfeature=player_embedded

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:11:54 Mark Wendt did opine: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:20 AM, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: It is very likely your ways are not very precise and fit up properly as well as your gib being junk. Take a look at Nick Muller's videos on cheap chinese ways

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:23:17 Kent A. Reed did opine: On 8/23/2012 12:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:38:47 Jan de Kruyf did opine: Hallo, Gene. I have on a few occasions glued brass filled teflon I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. Where does one get it? (with an etched surface, otherwise the glue does not hold) onto the running

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread dave
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 19:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:23:17 Kent A. Reed did opine: On 8/23/2012 12:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 August 2012 20:07:17 dave did opine: On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 19:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:23:17 Kent A. Reed did opine: On 8/23/2012 12:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: On Wed, Aug 22,

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-22 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/21 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/20 Klemen Ozebek klemen.oze...@gmail.com: Hi, Try: loadrt classicladder_rt numTimersIec=15 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_realtime_module Thank You! I did not understand, what those variable names

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-22 Thread Klemen Ozebek
Hi, you can give inputs and outputs names with changing symbol name in symbol window check link below: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_symbol_window after tahat you can display symbols in section display with checking/unchecking option display symbols check link

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-22 Thread Dave
On 8/22/2012 2:50 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2012/8/21 Viesturs Lācisviesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/20 Klemen Ozebekklemen.oze...@gmail.com: Hi, Try: loadrt classicladder_rt numTimersIec=15 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_realtime_module

[Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-22 Thread Gene Heskett
Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the next step of the assembly, I find that I have not fixed a gib problem this POS has had since day one, and likely cannot without a new, more precisely fitting

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-22 Thread jeremy youngs
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Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Cason
On 08/22/2012 06:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the next step of the assembly, I find that I have not fixed a gib problem this POS has had since day one, and likely

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

2012-08-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 22:28:10 Mark Cason did opine: On 08/22/2012 06:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the next step of the assembly, I find that I have

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Morley
Hi, you can give inputs and outputs names with changing symbol name in symbol window check link below: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_symbol_window after tahat you can display symbols in section display with checking/unchecking option display symbols

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-21 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/20 Klemen Ozebek klemen.oze...@gmail.com: Hi, Try: loadrt classicladder_rt numTimersIec=15 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_realtime_module Thank You! I did not understand, what those variable names in table in section 3.3 meant. Now I got it! --

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/19 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: Thank You very much for the explanation! This should go to the manuals or at least ladder-newbie wiki page... Now I start to understand the way I should arrange the order of all the logics. Now I encountered one more thing that I do not

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/20 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/19 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: Thank You very much for the explanation! This should go to the manuals or at least ladder-newbie wiki page... Now I start to understand the way I should arrange the order of all the logics.

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/20 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/20 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/19 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: Thank You very much for the explanation! This should go to the manuals or at least ladder-newbie wiki page... Now I start to understand the

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-20 Thread Klemen Ozebek
hi, try: loadrt classicladder_rt numTimers=15 without brackets. Br. On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.comwrote: 2012/8/20 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/19 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: Thank You very much for the

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-20 Thread Klemen Ozebek
Hi, Try: loadrt classicladder_rt numTimersIec=15 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_realtime_module Br. On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.comwrote: 2012/8/20 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/20 Viesturs Lācis

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-20 Thread John Thornton
That's because you didn't change the default number of IEC timers. You do have 15 Timers now... On 8/20/2012 2:35 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2012/8/20 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/20 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/19 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com:

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-20 Thread John Thornton
We have a winner here folks On 8/20/2012 2:45 PM, Klemen Ozebek wrote: Hi, Try: loadrt classicladder_rt numTimersIec=15 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_realtime_module Br. On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/19 Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: 2) can I make larger that piece of section display in which I can draw the ladder logics? now it consists of several blocks and it seems pretty inconvenient. No, and there is a reason. ladder evaluates the logic one rung at a time. it

[Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello! I started to work on config for the machine I am building and I am now stuck with figuring out, how to properly set up material pushers. I decided that I might try out classicladder. In HAL file I have: loadrt classicladder_rt addf classicladder.0.refresh servo-thread In LinuxCNC window

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-18 Thread John Thornton
Are you loading the user part of classicladder? loadusr classicladder --nogui hardinge.clp John On 8/18/2012 7:34 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: Hello! I started to work on config for the machine I am building and I am now stuck with figuring out, how to properly set up material pushers. I

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/18 John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com: Are you loading the user part of classicladder? loadusr classicladder --nogui hardinge.clp I have only these 2 lines in HAL: loadrt classicladder_rt addf classicladder.0.refresh servo-thread I can open Ladder editor from LinuxCNC menu. I think that

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-18 Thread John Thornton
If you don't load your ladder at start up it won't be there... The variable assignment along with your input logic should work. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_variable_assignment On 8/18/2012 10:44 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2012/8/18 John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com:

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/18 John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com: The variable assignment along with your input logic should work. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_variable_assignment Thanks! I already found that part. The question is: Can I assign different values to _one and the same_ s32

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-18 Thread John Thornton
It's hard to describe here but I'll try... sounds like you need a timer and based on the value of the timer you assign a value to your output pin. you have to arrange your rungs... this would be so much easier on the forum I could upload a screenshot... John 8/18/2012 11:08 AM, Viesturs Lācis

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/8/18 John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com: It's hard to describe here but I'll try... sounds like you need a timer and based on the value of the timer you assign a value to your output pin. you have to arrange your rungs... this would be so much easier on the forum I could upload a

Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question

2012-08-18 Thread John Thornton
A rung is the network from the left rail to the right rail which may include branches if you click on a section and with the editor open click on delete you will delete one rung. The section display (rung) appears to be fixed at 6 high On 8/18/2012 1:30 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2012/8/18

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