On 4/12/2015 5:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Neil, are you doing printed circuit boards?
That's the intention at first. The machine will be multi-use, so 3D
printer is next, and laser cutter later.
> This does take a more precise Z drive than is the usual for affordable
> machines. Tight balls
On 4/12/2015 5:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> If you have a "position.txt" file set in the ini, nuke it and the file it
> generates, and it will then default to 0,0,0 regardless of where it is
> physically at, at powerup. This is as opposed to having it at 25,25,25
> when it was exited. With the f
On 4/12/2015 2:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> A dim led just came on in my mind, and I believe the HOME_OFFSET
> setting might be able to do that. Its intended to allow a precise home
> position to be set relative to the switch closure it finds, allowing
> the switch to be mounted at an arbitray
On Sunday 12 April 2015 15:47:13 Neil wrote:
> I don't have a homing switch on Z (yet), and even if I did, I need Z
> to be set *very* accurately, so I think I'll need to manually set this
> still. I need to try this to see if HOME_OFFSET is taken into account
> without homing switches.
Neil, are
On Sunday 12 April 2015 15:41:21 Neil wrote:
> The touch-off is different as far as I've discovered so far. My min
> and max Z is -25 and +100 in the .ini file. If I move to what the
> machine thinks is 0 (wherever it was when the table booted up), and
> touch that off to say 40, then the machine
On 04/12/2015 02:41 PM, Neil wrote:
> The touch-off is different as far as I've discovered so far. My min and
> max Z is -25 and +100 in the .ini file. If I move to what the machine
> thinks is 0 (wherever it was when the table booted up), and touch that
> off to say 40, then the machine will sti
Homing is only to set the machine soft limits not for material touch off...
On 4/12/2015 2:47 PM, Neil wrote:
> I don't have a homing switch on Z (yet), and even if I did, I need Z to
> be set *very* accurately, so I think I'll need to manually set this
> still. I need to try this to see if HOME_
On 04/12/2015 10:07 AM, Neil wrote:
> Another couple things I can't yet find...
>
> (1) How do I tell LinuxCNC that I am at a specific position. So I set Z
> to touch the top of a part and I want to tell it that's Z=-20. In Mach
> 3, I type the value in the DRO-displayed field.
The touch-off butt
You can HOME anywhere but typically Z0 is all the way up. If you don't
have home switches then put some match marks on each axis and jog to
line them up then home the axis. After you home you "touch off" to the
material and you will be able to move within the soft limits of the
machine. You can
I don't have a homing switch on Z (yet), and even if I did, I need Z to
be set *very* accurately, so I think I'll need to manually set this
still. I need to try this to see if HOME_OFFSET is taken into account
without homing switches.
On 4/12/2015 2:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> On Sunday
The touch-off is different as far as I've discovered so far. My min and
max Z is -25 and +100 in the .ini file. If I move to what the machine
thinks is 0 (wherever it was when the table booted up), and touch that
off to say 40, then the machine will still only move -25 *from there*...
so min
Arg, that ain't the material touch off button...
net z-material halui.mdi-command-10 <+ pyvcp.z-material-touchoff
MDI_COMMAND = G10 L20 P1 Z0.375
"z-material-touchoff"
"Z Material Touch Off"
3
On 4/12/2015 2:11 PM, John Thornton wrote:
> In my postgui.hal file I have the f
In my postgui.hal file I have the following
net z-fixture halui.mdi-command-08 <= pyvcp.z-touchoff
in my ini file in the [HALUI] section the 8th one is:
MDI_COMMAND = G10 L11 P#5400 Z0.0
in the [DISPLAY] section is:
PYVCP = hardinge.xml
In my hardinge.xml file I have:
"z-touchoff"
The Homing function is to set the machine 0 for each axis so soft limits
work and has nothing to do with setting the material offsets. Look at
G10 in the manual.
JT
On 4/12/2015 11:33 AM, Neil wrote:
> The PnP software I'm playing with (openpnp) is hardcoded such that Z=0
> to clear the PCB and
On Sunday 12 April 2015 12:33:02 Neil wrote:
> The PnP software I'm playing with (openpnp) is hardcoded such that Z=0
> to clear the PCB and components. I don't have much of an option at
> this point.
>
> Haven't heard of PyVCP but looking it up now. Seems like it will
> create it's own app (or
On Sunday 12 April 2015 11:07:41 Neil wrote:
> Another couple things I can't yet find...
>
> (1) How do I tell LinuxCNC that I am at a specific position. So I set
> Z to touch the top of a part and I want to tell it that's Z=-20. In
> Mach 3, I type the value in the DRO-displayed field.
To me,
The PnP software I'm playing with (openpnp) is hardcoded such that Z=0
to clear the PCB and components. I don't have much of an option at this
point.
Haven't heard of PyVCP but looking it up now. Seems like it will create
it's own app (or panel). That might be a good thing actually, but for
Well normally the top of the material is Z0... and you use the touch off
button for that as it has nothing to do with homing.
Yes, you can add a PyVCP button to issue a MDI command to set the Z
material height.
JT
On 4/12/2015 10:07 AM, Neil wrote:
> Another couple things I can't yet find...
>
Another couple things I can't yet find...
(1) How do I tell LinuxCNC that I am at a specific position. So I set Z
to touch the top of a part and I want to tell it that's Z=-20. In Mach
3, I type the value in the DRO-displayed field.
(2) Extra credit -- is there any way for me to set the Z-pos
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