Re: [Emc-users] Documentation question

2023-11-07 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 at 19:10, Ray Henry wrote: > > a Debian release is referred to as "Boolworm." Is this a typo Yes, just a typo. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitc

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation - hal_manualtoolchange manpage

2017-04-05 Thread Joe Hildreth
OK, I see what you mean, the change_button is an input pin of the component, when it is triggered the component will set the changed pin high. Some days, I wonder why I get out of bed. haha Sorry for all the chatter. Joe - On Apr 5, 2017, at 1:48 PM, Joe Hildreth j...@threerivershospital.

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation - hal_manualtoolchange manpage

2017-04-05 Thread Joe Hildreth
Sebastian, Thanks for the information and the patience with me. In the config created by stepconf on my machine I see the following in the hal file. loadusr -W hal_manualtoolchange net tool-change iocontrol.0.tool-change => hal_manualtoolchange.change net tool-changed iocontrol.0.tool-changed <

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation - hal_manualtoolchange manpage

2017-04-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 04/05/2017 09:58 AM, Joe Hildreth wrote: > I have a good portion of the manpage written for this user component, > but have a question. Great! > If one wanted to use the hal_manualtoolchange.change_button as an > external button, should this input be ORed with the > hal_manualtoolchange.chang

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation Clarification

2017-03-24 Thread andy pugh
On 24 March 2017 at 19:23, Joe Hildreth wrote: > "... hundreds of pins. But right now there are only nine pins. All eight of > these pins are floating point, Fixed -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, dare

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation auto-generation [Was: Tuning a spindle servo]

2014-10-02 Thread andy pugh
On 2 October 2014 12:33, Erik Christiansen wrote: > A commonly used tool for auto-generating documentation from code is: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxygen I am fairly sure that halcompile (nee "comp") does this for LinuxCNC components. As I said, we would need a new keyword in halcompile.

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation

2012-03-24 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 19:30 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > Greg Bernard wrote: > > I too have been following all the various CNC schemes being > implemented on small boards but I fail to see the advantage over a > computer based controller either with LinuxCNC or Mach. Seems to be a > lot of misplaced e

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation

2012-03-24 Thread Jon Elson
Greg Bernard wrote: > I too have been following all the various CNC schemes being implemented on > small boards but I fail to see the advantage over a computer based controller > either with LinuxCNC or Mach. Seems to be a lot of misplaced effort. Am I > missing something? > A few years ago w

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation

2012-03-24 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 19:35 +0100, Bernhard Kubicek wrote: > well, no realtime needed on a host pc, or even no host at all, like > e.g. > on ultimaker+ultipanel+sd card printing. > > the only thing todo for smoothie is blending+ better motion control. > and maybe support for variables, loops, and

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation

2012-03-24 Thread Bernhard Kubicek
well, no realtime needed on a host pc, or even no host at all, like e.g. on ultimaker+ultipanel+sd card printing. the only thing todo for smoothie is blending+ better motion control. and maybe support for variables, loops, and other rather complex stuff. On 3/24/2012 7:28 PM, Greg Bernard wrote

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation

2012-03-24 Thread Greg Bernard
I too have been following all the various CNC schemes being implemented on small boards but I fail to see the advantage over a computer based controller either with LinuxCNC or Mach. Seems to be a lot of misplaced effort. Am I missing something? > > From: Kirk

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation in Spanish?

2011-07-07 Thread andy pugh
On 7 July 2011 02:29, anson parker wrote: > am on osx - is there a preferred software > for syncing up with translators of a given language? Asciidoc is plain text, but Xcode is as good an editor/environment as any other, and it integrates with git. (I use it for the EMC2 work that I do, though t

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation in Spanish?

2011-07-06 Thread Kim Kirwan
Hi Anson, AsciiDoc files are simply .txt files, so you can use any plain text editor of your choice. Speaking for myself, right now I prefer gVim for two reasons: - Because I find it very helpful to be able to open multiple windows in a variety of arrangements, side-by-side, high-n-low, four up

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation in Spanish?

2011-07-06 Thread anson parker
new to the translation tools... am on osx - is there a preferred software for syncing up with translators of a given language? ap On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Kim Kirwan wrote: > Hi Oscar, > > As I think I mentioned before, we are moving away from LyX, > so it would be better if you could w

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation in Spanish?

2011-07-06 Thread Kim Kirwan
Hi Oscar, As I think I mentioned before, we are moving away from LyX, so it would be better if you could wait just a bit and start with the revised AsciiDoc (.txt) files I'm about to push. Or, if you can't wait, start with the existing .txt files instead of the .lyx files. In either case I would

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation for spindle-rpm-filtered?

2010-10-01 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:53:52 +0100, you wrote: >On 29 September 2010 09:32, Andy Pugh wrote: > >Just put the various lines in your HAL file. Put the loadrt and addf >lines with the similar lines in the file, then put the rest anywhere >you want. Thanks Andy - sorted now, works a treat. Only othe

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation on using beckhoff EtherCAT with emc2

2010-10-01 Thread Viesturs Lācis
I think that You have managed to describe the process very well. I feel like I understood it although I have never had any experience with trying to use ethernet for this purpose. I would appreciate, if You could continue, because I find this topic to be extremely useful for me and I think that usi

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation for spindle-rpm-filtered?

2010-09-29 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:04:16 +0100, you wrote: >On 28 September 2010 23:48, Steve Blackmore wrote: >> >> Is there any documentation for >> >> spindle-rpm-filtered ?? > >No. It is a signal name, and the next paragraph says "assuming that >spindle-rpm-filtered already exists" Yes, but the manual o

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation for spindle-rpm-filtered?

2010-09-29 Thread Andy Pugh
On 29 September 2010 09:32, Steve Blackmore wrote: > I'll try stepconf again, see if it's improved any and put's the other > required half in the hal file.. I would be surprised if it did. There was also a fatal flaw in the hal code I posted; no source for the speed signal. Just put the variou

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation for spindle-rpm-filtered?

2010-09-28 Thread Jon Elson
Steve Blackmore wrote: > Is there any documentation for > > spindle-rpm-filtered ?? > > Saw it in on page 105 of the Integrator manual but can't find any other > reference in any of the manuals/ > > I hope it's what I need to stabilise the very twitchy speed display on > my panel. > Here's what

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation for spindle-rpm-filtered?

2010-09-28 Thread Andy Pugh
On 28 September 2010 23:48, Steve Blackmore wrote: > > Is there any documentation for > > spindle-rpm-filtered ?? No. It is a signal name, and the next paragraph says "assuming that spindle-rpm-filtered already exists" signal names (the first item in a "net" command) can be freely chosen and ar

Re: [Emc-users] documentation?

2009-12-02 Thread Andy Pugh
2009/12/2 Andy Pugh : > 2009/12/2  : >> >> I want to explain what i have. My machine is very simple - 3 axis >> I have 2 5i20 and 4 7i37 cards. > I make that 336 general purpose I/O bits in total, which seems rather > a lot for 3 axes. Ignore me, I can't read. I mistook 7i37 for 7i43. You still

Re: [Emc-users] documentation?

2009-12-02 Thread Andy Pugh
2009/12/2 : > > I want to explain what i have. My machine is very simple - 3 axis > I have 2 5i20 and 4 7i37 cards. I think i will be better without of > 74hc148 and maybe without sd3486. I make that 336 general purpose I/O bits in total, which seems rather a lot for 3 axes. I don't think there i

Re: [Emc-users] documentation?

2009-12-02 Thread a
Hi Anders I want to explain what i have. My machine is very simple - 3 axis I have 2 5i20 and 4 7i37 cards. I think i will be better without of 74hc148 and maybe without sd3486. I only want to use Jog wheel (a; a-; b; b-), Increment selector (0.1; 0.01; 0.001), and Axis selector (off, XYZ). It is

Re: [Emc-users] documentation?

2009-12-02 Thread Andy Pugh
2009/12/2 Anders Wallin : > if you have lots of I/O pins to spare and are using 3 or 4-way rotary > switches it may not be worth it to encode the position of the switch > with a 74hc148 An alternative would be to just start with a binary-coded rotary switch, though that is no help with multiplexi

Re: [Emc-users] documentation?

2009-12-02 Thread Anders Wallin
> I am not sure how to wire 74HC148 > Can you show how to connect wires 7-20 to 74HC148 and to 11 pins on 7i37 > (00in, 01in, 02in. ………10in) take a close look at the datasheet http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74hc148.pdf the 74hc148 has three output bits, you wire these to your m5i20. since i

Re: [Emc-users] documentation?

2009-12-02 Thread a
Hi I want to ask for more information. I know how to wire jog wheel and use of DS3486. 1 Red +5V 2 Blue GND 3 Green +A 4 Yellow -A 5 White +B 6 Black –B I am not sure how to wire 74HC148 Can you show how to connect wires 7-20 to 74HC148 and to 11 pins on 7i37 (00in, 01in, 02in. ………10in) 7 Brown

Re: [Emc-users] documentation?

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Morley
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 07:54:41 +0200 > From: anders.e.e.wal...@gmail.com > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] documentation? > > HAL is very much like wiring real electronic components (data-flow, if > you want a fancy word LabVIEW and simul

Re: [Emc-users] documentation?

2009-11-30 Thread Stuart Stevenson
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Anders Wallin wrote: > next time when I have copious amounts of free time it would be nice to > work on something that reads and understands a HAL-file (or a running > EMC via halshow?) and produces a picture of the connections. There was > some work in this dire

Re: [Emc-users] documentation?

2009-11-30 Thread Anders Wallin
HAL is very much like wiring real electronic components (data-flow, if you want a fancy word LabVIEW and simulink uses...). I think the best representation for our brains to understand and remember these things is not a text file with components and links but a schematic. I tried drawing the electr

Re: [Emc-users] documentation?

2009-11-30 Thread a
Hi Each 7i37 has 15 pin IN. There are 2 -7i37 cards. So, I have 30 in all together. Pins 1- 11 used for XYZ axis (Limits + Home) I do not need Feed Override and Spindle Override. For pendant I need pins: 2- for Jog wheel, 2- for Jog Increment 3- for jog-selector (X Y Z) Conclusion: I need 7 pins o

Re: [Emc-users] documentation?

2009-11-30 Thread Andy Pugh
2009/11/30 : > I am checking documentation > http://www.anderswallin.net/wp-content/2006_11jog/jog.hal > and here i can see: > linksp joga m5i20.0.in-09 > and > linksp jogb m5i20.0.in-10 > > At the same time in file m5i20_IO_hal > pin 09 and 10 are used for Z axis > linksp Zmaxlim <=m5i20.0.in-09

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation Question

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Joni
There is also some information in html form, most of it included in the manuals. Most docs can be found at : www.linuxcnc.org/docs/ from where you can select version dependent stuff (devel is the latest TRUNK) Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: "Matthew Glenn Shaver" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation Question

2007-07-20 Thread Jon Elson
Matthew Glenn Shaver wrote: > If I read the latest version of EMC2_Developer_Manual.pdf, > EMC2_Integrator_Manual.pdf, EMC2_Manual_Pages.pdf, EMC2_User_Manual.pdf, > and HAL_User_Manual.pdf, plus all the pages in wiki.linuxcnc.org, have I > read _ALL_ the EMC2 related documentation? Pretty much so.

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation Drawings

2006-12-16 Thread Luis Fdo. Leiva
> > How do you document your machine's wiring > (schematic), emc > > hal configuration (diagram), etc? Hi, I use XCircuit.(http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/) You need to read the tutorials and some time to learn to use it. Once you handle it fairly well it is very useful. It outputs in pos

Re: [Emc-users] Documentation Drawings

2006-12-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:32:33PM +0100, Marc Bodmer wrote: > > How do you document your machine's wiring (schematic), emc > hal configuration (diagram), etc? > > Which Linux Software is most useful for this task? Marc, qcad looks pretty good at first glance but I haven't used it myself yet. C