Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-03 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> I've been asking about this for years and have been met with resounding > silence. I rather like the idea of doing it remotely. Not that most > cpu's can't handle it but tends to get one thinking shopwise rather then > just a single machine. > > Thanks for poking the bear. ;-) > > I have no

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-03 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
zon 4G LTE smartphone > > > Original message > From: Chris Albertson > Date: 12/2/19 4:41 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition > > I think scheduling might be a usef

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-03 Thread Todd Zuercher
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition Todd, Oops, flawed memory. The application is called schedrmt, emcsched is the main module. The description for how it is supposed to work is in the comments of schedrmt.cc. Regards, Eric On December 2

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Todd, Oops, flawed memory. The application is called schedrmt, emcsched is the main module. The description for how it is supposed to work is in the comments of schedrmt.cc. Regards, Eric On December 2, 2019 6:50:17 PM EST, "Eric H. Johnson" wrote: >Todd, > >I wrote something along those

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Todd, I wrote something along those lines years ago, and still exists in the source code. It is called emcsched. I wrote it for a jewelry application that did lots of small parts. It basically lets you put a job in queue, pick a starting point, feed rate, etc. and runs the jobs in the order in

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread Todd Zuercher
) To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Subject: Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition I think scheduling might be a useful feature but it is best done as a separate application.The schedule app could run CNC jobs on remote computers. It would be able to do shop-wide scheduling on

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 23:03, dave engvall wrote: > I have no idea what hooks are there or need to be added to make this happen. The first thing I would try would be: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man1/linuxcncrsh.1.html Which allows each machine on the network to specify its own

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread dave engvall
I've been asking about this for years and have been met with resounding silence. I rather like the idea of doing it remotely. Not that most cpu's can't handle it but tends to get one thinking shopwise rather then just a single machine. Thanks for poking the bear. ;-) I have no idea what

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 21:17, Todd Zuercher wrote: > > How hard might it be to add a Job Queue to one of the user interfaces? I think this might be an easy thing to do as a VBA Macro in Excel. If Excel is the current input level. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread Chris Albertson
I think scheduling might be a useful feature but it is best done as a separate application.The schedule app could run CNC jobs on remote computers. It would be able to do shop-wide scheduling on any number of CNC machines. Also, I think you'd want the scheduler to run on a computer that

[Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread Todd Zuercher
How hard might it be to add a Job Queue to one of the user interfaces? At our factory it is common for a supervisor to create a list of jobs that are to be ran on a machine for the next shift(s). I think it would be nice if this could be handled as part of Linuxcnc. The supervisor could build

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread John Guenther
Eric, Thank you for the information, I am beginning to grasp what I need to know to proceed down this path. I have tried to connect to emcrsh following your instructions below, I am using Hardy Heron and EMC2.2.3 but I cannot get a connection to emcrsh. It either tells me the connection is

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread Eric H. Johnson
John, It is generally pretty simple. If you are getting connection refused that usually means emcrsh is not running. Another way to start it from any configuration is to use halcmd (after starting emc) from a terminal session as follows: halcmd loadusr emcrsh Then see if you can connect with:

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread John Guenther
Eric, That did not help either, here is what I got: j...@john-desktop:~$ halcmd loadusr emcrsh j...@john-desktop:~$ telnet localhost 5007 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. emc/usr_intf/emcrsh.cc 2767: can't connect to emc Connection closed by foreign host.

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread Eric H. Johnson
John, Does the error message come up right away, or do you get a chance to enter anything? You should be able to type 'help' after getting: Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. I am also running 2.3.0 on Hardy, so I know that it works for that configuration. I will not be able to

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread John Guenther
Eric, Thanks, no hurry when ever you get to it. Here is some additional information: j...@john-desktop:~$ halcmd loadusr emcrsh j...@john-desktop:~$ emc/usr_intf/emcrsh.cc 2767: can't connect to emc j...@john-desktop:~$ it takes about 10 seconds on this machine for the error message to come

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread Alex Joni
Guenther j.guent...@verizon.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] user interface development? Eric, Thanks, no hurry when ever you get to it. Here is some additional information: j...@john

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread John Guenther
: Thursday, May 07, 2009 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] user interface development? Eric, Thanks, no hurry when ever you get to it. Here is some additional information: j...@john-desktop:~$ halcmd loadusr emcrsh j...@john-desktop:~$ emc/usr_intf/emcrsh.cc 2767: can't connect

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread John Guenther
emcrsh still needs to get some hardcoded defaults. Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: John Guenther j.guent...@verizon.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] user

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread Dewey Garrett
j...@john-desktop:~$ halcmd loadusr emcrsh j...@john-desktop:~$ emc/usr_intf/emcrsh.cc 2767: can't connect to emc Using trunk, I tried and saw this problem so i straced emcrsh and found it gave up when trying to open emc.nml You could try to cd to a directory containg emc.nml and then start

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread Eric H. Johnson
John, You should not be able to do much if you have not successfully negotiated a Hello. Only help and quit should work. Do the following after establishing the connection: Hello EMC client 1.0 EMC is the connection password, the remainder is basically a hook for the future to facilitate

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread Dewey Garrett
Hello results in a HELLO NAK Specify : Hello password cleint version for shutdown, it must enabled first with: set enable the_enable_password Once a telnet session is started, help hello, help set, help shutdown are very useful example session: $ telnet localhost 5007 Trying 127.0.0.1...

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-07 Thread John Guenther
Eric, Dewey, Alex, Thanks for the help, I have now been able to get emcrsh to work as it is supposed to. Everything is working as it should, I have also been able to access emcsh and check out the commands there also. I will now crawl back in the wood work and study more code as I progress down

[Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-03 Thread John Guenther
Is there any documentation available on user interface development for EMC2? I have looked through the various manuals and the code for axis, Tkemc, mini and keystick all of which give me some idea as to the system calls to EMC2 for the various interfaces. Is there a complete list of the calls

Re: [Emc-users] user interface development?

2009-05-03 Thread Eric H. Johnson
John, There are two main functions which a user interface must perform. 1 Issue NML commands. The best reference for these is in the Developers Handbook: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/EMC2_Developer_Manual.pdf See chapter II on NML messages. You can also see examples of how these commands

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface

2007-09-19 Thread Andre' Blanchard
At 07:07 PM 9/18/2007, you wrote: is there a way to edit the tool table via the user interface, or do you have to manually open the tool file and edit it there? AXIS doesn't have a tool-table editor built in. In the upcoming EMC 2.2 it will be possible to re-load the tool table and open an

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface

2007-09-19 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:39:00AM -0500, Andre' Blanchard wrote: AXIS doesn't have a tool-table editor built in. In the upcoming EMC 2.2 it will be possible to re-load the tool table and open an external tool editor (such as the gedit text editor) from the menu in AXIS. Is that going to be

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface

2007-09-19 Thread Ed
Jeff Epler wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:39:00AM -0500, Andre' Blanchard wrote: SNIP AXIS will support opening an editor on the tool offsets and on the loaded gcode file. I have been hoping this would be coming along soon. I will be setting up a CNC retrofit for a high school in the

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface

2007-09-19 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:06:40AM -0400, Ed wrote: Is there a timeframe? No. This spring I was saying this summer, but now I'm saying hopefully this fall. Jeff - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface

2007-09-19 Thread Ed
Jeff Epler wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:06:40AM -0400, Ed wrote: Is there a timeframe? No. This spring I was saying this summer, but now I'm saying hopefully this fall. Jeff Whenever it gets here I will be happy. I really do appreciate what you fellows are doing with EMC2, it

[Emc-users] User Interface

2007-09-18 Thread AKSYS Tech Pty Ltd
Hi, I have been playing around with the different user interfaces for EMC and have a couple of questions. I was initially interested in using the MINI interface but I would like to be able to backplot my code before actually running the machine - is this possible? My other question about the MINI

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface

2007-09-18 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:17:31AM +1000, AKSYS Tech Pty Ltd wrote: Hi, I have been playing around with the different user interfaces for EMC and have a couple of questions. I was initially interested in using the MINI interface but I would like to be able to backplot my code before actually

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface

2007-09-18 Thread Jon Elson
Jeff Epler wrote: AXIS doesn't have a tool-table editor built in. In the upcoming EMC 2.2 it will be possible to re-load the tool table and open an external tool editor (such as the gedit text editor) from the menu in AXIS. Ohh, thank you thank you thank you! I just ran into this last

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:41:48PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: Ohh, thank you thank you thank you! I just ran into this last week when rerunning the same code with slightly different diameters entered in the tool table to correct for tool deflection, and it was just the slightest bit