the axis-remote script uses tk send for RPC. This requires that it
connect to the same DISPLAY as the axis program. As a result, I don't
think the suggested useTk=False modification will leave you with a
working axis-remote.
Jeff
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:50:23AM +, Churms, Cecil wrote:
On page 4 of the HAL Manual V2.6.0-pre4, 2014-06-12 a float is defined as 64
bits (i.e which I refer to as a double in my programming), which I take to be
the case within a HAL context.
However, on page 44 of the same Manual,
On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 02:48:16PM -0400, Matt Shaver wrote:
I'm using the latest 2.6-pre version from the buildbot and when I
enable the aux acreen I get the following error the next time I start
linuxcnc:
[the error says, in part,
raise AttributeError, No widget %widget % attr
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:34:09PM +0100, andy pugh wrote:
Looks like Sherline use the Mini GUI
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gui/mini.html
That GUI was originally written for Sherline and contributed to
LinuxCNC, back in the pre-1.0 days AKA dark ages. Its major author may
have been Ray
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 08:37:43AM -0500, Chris Radek wrote:
I recommend using zsync to download it:
% sudo apt-get install zsync
% zsync http://www.linuxcnc.org/binary.hybrid.iso.zsync
FWIW there is a Windows port of zsync. It works as a console
application, just like the Linux version, so
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 03:36:29PM +0300, Marius Alksnys wrote:
I have no idea why, but in my config limit3 works wrong with certain
maxv and maxa parameters.
I tried to reproduce the behavior you report, but I was not able to.
I tested using the 2.6 branch at 0bc4426 on a computer running
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:51:40PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
Howdy folks, at long last LinuxCNC 2.6.0 is here.
Thank you Seb!
Jeff
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I have written 'anonymous net' support in branch jepler/anonymous-net
Here's how I describe the new functionality:
halcmd: allow net command to create anonymous nets
Anonymous nets are named 'n$0', 'n$1', and so forth.
This usage is not ambiguous, because until now it was
I think your concerns about the human ambiguity of a 'net' command with
no signal names are valid ones-- this crossed my mind as well.
(and yes, you caught my error in the change comment)
Personally, in terms of how to expose an explicit anonymous (??) net to
hal, I tend to prefer
net ???
From the motion manpage:
motion.spindle-at-speed IN BIT
Motion will pause until this pin is TRUE, under the following
conditions: before the first feed move after each spindle start
or speed change; before the start of every chain of
I just booked my ticket to the Houston fest. I'll be there saturday
through tuesday (full days, travelling fri/wed). I hope to see some
familiar faces and some new ones!
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On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 03:12:56PM +, Tomaz T. wrote:
Next problem occurred after update to 2.7.0 pre, as when I restart
linuxcnc i'm getting error saying:
Debug file information:insmod: error inserting
'/usr/realtime-2.6.32-122-rtai/modules/linuxcnc/hal_parport.ko': -1
Device or resource
I tested for the hal_parport device or resource busy problem but was
unable to reproduce it.
I tested on a debian 7 system recently installed from the hybrid.iso. I
tested at a master branch revision which describes as
v2.6.3-659-gce43af0 (today's master branch) using a standalone test
script in
On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 03:21:01PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 06 September 2014 12:00:20 Tomaz T. did opine
And Gene did reply:
Commenting out LP line in modules doesn't help, and also
uncommenting install parport_pc /bin/true didn't
in /etc/modprobe.d/linuxcnc.conf
If
Assuming I read your snippet of hal file properly, originally you had
estop-latch.0.ok-out
= EstopOkOut
= iocontrol.0.emc-enable-in
= ppmc.0.dout.07.out
= ppmc.0.dout.Estop.out
= and2.0.in1
You disconnected EstopOutOk from
Newer mesa cards, such as the 5i25, store the FPGA firmware in a flash
chip. This can be changed by use of the mesaflash program, which should
be available via the package manager if it is not preinstalled.
The mesa manual (the pdf you can get at mesanet.com) describes how to
use mesaflash at
sourceforge is aware of the problem, but they have declined to take any
measures to resolve it (there are some they could take, by simply
upgrading the mailing list software).
yahoo is aware of the problem, but caused it deliberately as an antispam
measure.
I have one of those devices. I'm not satisfied with it.
First, the good: the java interface does work in Linux. And it is
pretty cheap.
The bad: almost everything else. I was particularly frustrated when I
was initially trying to debug my 1.8V5V level shifter hm2_spi
driver this summer.
The
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 08:23:42PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
On 10/07/2014 11:13 AM, Jeff Epler wrote:
I have one of those devices. I'm not satisfied with it.
OK, I'm so spoiled by big iron Tektronix logic analyzers,
I might find it
a problem. But, the pocket size is sure a plus. How
It's not currently possible to have multiple instances of classicladder
running within the same hal session. I suspect the modifications to do
this in classicladder would be complex even for someone familiar with
the source code.
Jeff
I had a great time at TX/RX labs and it was good to meet you.
I posted some photos on my personal blog
http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01414165219
and I also noticed that txrx put up a blog entry about us
https://txrxlabs.org/blog/cborn/linuxcnc-fest/
Jeff
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:42:26AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
There is a picture labeled Beagle Bone Black with BeBoPr
board, it
is actually a CRAMPS board.
Updated, thanks.
Jeff
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As Seb says, the properties in the hal module are thin wrappers around
rtapi_is_xxx.
hal.is_userspace is simply always the inverse of hal.is_kernelspace,
which is just rtapi_is_kernelspace(). This is true for RTAI and false
for uspace.
hal.is_sim is simply the inverse of hal.is_rt, which is
The linuxcnc.org CMS software (joomla) is simplistic in the way it
handles language. If you arrive (for instance by search) at a page with
/russian/ in the URL, it sets your language on that computer to
russian until you click the link for your preferred language in the
sidebar.
It's a surprise
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 09:57:52PM +0100, Sven Wesley wrote:
Seems Chrome decided to pickup a language cookie, might be some link I
followed to the site that changed the language.
I've modified the robots.txt of linuxcnc.org to encourage search engines
not to return results on /language/ pages.
This list does not provide support for machinekit software.
As far as I know, the most accurate information about where to get
support for machinekit is on their website
http://blog.machinekit.io/p/support.html
which links to a google group
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/machinekit
Jeff
The lut5 component can be used to implement arbitrary functions of up
to 5 bit inputs. Since the kind of lut you need has just three bit
inputs, it is a good candidate for being implemented by lut5.
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/lut5.9.html
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Lut5
this thread has a reverse-engineered pinout for ZP1.
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/mazak-mitsubishi-mazatrol/77549-mitsubishi-tra41-servo-drives-interface-help-please-2.html
as you might have expected, it looks like the amp is analog velocity
input.
http://innovative-rc.com/tra41.jpg
In the emc HAL, threads must be created in order, starting with the
fastest/highest priority and followed by the slower/lower priority.
In your configuration, you create a slow thread followed by a fast one.
loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT servo_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]SERVO_PERIOD
num_joints=[TRAJ]AXES
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 08:24:23AM -0500, David M. Wright wrote:
[0.00] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with lapic
[ 250.722154] RTAI[hal]: ERROR, LOCAL APIC CONFIGURED BUT NOT
AVAILABLE/ENABLED.
This is the cause of the problem.
This is the likely solution:
Did the config last work with an emc 2.3.x? If so, it could be this
problem:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?UPDATING#emc_nml_changes
Jeff
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Basically this boils down to finding the most extreme X and Y values of
the arc, then checking to see if the extremes are inside the working
area.
The most extreme points of a circle are at the angles that are multiples
of π/2 (for instance, if you consider a circle as going from 0 to 2π
radians,
The reason that emc only supports line and arc moves in the motion
planner is because these are in some sense the simplest forms of motion.
Both lines and circular arcs have very simple equal arc length time
parameterizations, which is a fancy way of saying that it's easy to
find the point that
RTAPI is the name of the real-time portability APIs in emc.
Currently, we provide two implementations of RTAPI that are known to
work: RTAI's kernel-moade interface (the one everyone uses when actually
controlling hardware) and sim (based on gnu pth for threading
primitives, no realtime
Enhanced Machine Controller 2.4.7 has been released. Debian packages
are availble from the regular package servers. A source tarball is
available at
http://linuxcnc.org/emc2/dists/lucid/emc2.4/source/emc2_2.4.7.tar.gz
Due to a mistake during packaging, this version will still identify
There's no fixed answer to your question. If there is one, it's this:
Whatever members of the community step forward to provide
though for the last 4 or so years another answer has been
Each Ubuntu LTS release, sooner or later
If it really tickles your fancy, and you have hardware
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:11:42AM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
So, if I have a UP motherboard and upgrade to 10.04, which pulls SMP and
APIC. I might be able to fix my system by learning how to compile my
kernel and select UP instead of SMP?
You would have to build your own version of the
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:59:14PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
I have a couple EMC2 systems using the Ubuntu 6.06 build from some time
ago, with updated EMC on them.
I recently wanted to check the latency numbers, and ran into this when I
tried to run latency-test :
./latency-test: line 136:
AXIS assumes that the following bitmap fonts are available:
-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-*-1
9x15
if they are not, then you will have to find the gentoo-specific way to
install them and make them available to X programs.
You can test whether these fonts are installed by
1. Install emc2
2. Use a sample configuration such as scara/scara.ini
3. Study the special configuration files in the scara configuration
directory, as well as the files vismach.py scaragui.py and
scarakins.c in the emc2 source and the documentation shown by the
command pydoc vismach.
I am not a pycam user and have never used it.
I see that pycam 0.1.7b includes a README.TXT file that specifies the
supporting software that must be installed to use it, and how to run it.
If this is not enough to get you started, you should consider asking in
a forum for pycam users. I notice
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:53:44PM +0100, Lukas wrote:
First of all, thank you Jeff very much. It works!
Yay.
BTW: How did you know that exactly this font is missing?
I knew where to look in the source for those font names. It's
unfortunate that the error message doesn't contain the font
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:08:32AM +, Tom wrote:
I have 2 unrelated questions:
Cradek mentioned that in the CVS Head version of Emc2/Axis, it is possible
to do M6T(X), then touch off for the tool offset and it will automatically
adjust thevalue in the tool offset table - I have tried
In emc2.3 this will be possible.
halscope -h prints this help:
halscope [-h] [-i infile] [-o outfile]
you will use -i to specify the file to read at startup (instead of the
default, which is now autosave.halscope) and -o to specify the file to
write on exit (again, the new default is
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:47:52PM -0600, Michael Dark wrote:
keystick ui in cvs no longer crashes on my system.
That's good news. Thanks for testing it.
Jeff
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Program two separate moves:
G53 G0 Z-10 ( move to machine Z-10 )
G28 ( all axes move to predefined position )
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On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 07:43:25AM -0800, WF Chan wrote:
Dear all,
What is the unit of amplitude in PID error curve (HAL Oscilloscope)?
it is the same units as the command value. For instance, if your axis
0 is in millimeters, then its pid error value is in millimeters.
Jeff
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:31:17AM +0100, Robert von Knobloch wrote:
Thanks for your solution, which worked perfectly.
Just for my benefit, I would like to know if I misunderstood the
command or does it not work as documented?
I think the documentation is accurate but maybe not terribly clear.
Yes.
Specify in your infile something like:
[FILTER]
PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .tap VCarve Pro program
If you specify a PROGRAM_EXTENSION but not a corresponding handler
(tap=...), then AXIS will load the file directly.
Jeff
count me in.
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emc can use a touch probe. most touch probe programs I've seen are
concerned with finding Z heights at multiple X,Y locations, but there's
no reason that you couldn't write a program to find points on the
perimeter of an object instead.
In emc 2.2.x, the only probing move is g38.2, straight
I think the answer is no. G38.x probing moves will not do what you
are looking for The only types of probing motions are
linear, and they are based on a digital probe input turning on and off.
Jeff
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On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:01:55AM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote:
I try to visit some other websites to check for updates like Chris',
Anders' and others. I wonder if a list of top ten most active/updated
EMC2 sites would be handy on the web and wiki home pages?
I run a site called which shows
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:51:18AM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote:
That looks great Jeff, but now I need to figure out what RSS is. EMC2
made me learn about IRC, I'm glad I did. Sometimes I get into the well
in my day we didn't have ... in the snow with cardboard in my shoes...
syndrome.
RSS is a
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:32:22AM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote:
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 09:39 -0500, Jeff Epler wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:01:55AM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote:
I try to visit some other websites to check for updates like Chris',
Anders' and others. I wonder if a list
The emc2 chat is hosted on chat.freenode.net, channel #emc. You can
connect with clients like xchat and gaim, or with a java applet. For
more information, please see:
http://www.linuxcnc.org/content/view/4/8/lang,en/
Jeff
If you haven't already bought the pluto-p hardware, I recommend you
consider the various interface cards from http://mesanet.com/ or
http://pico-systems.com/motion.html instead -- they are better
constructed and have a better record of hardware compatability.
With that said, the documentation
I'm pleased to announce the second beta release of the emc 2.3, emc
2.3.0beta2.
The new packages are now available for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.
This is a beta release, and should not be installed on production
systems.
For more information and installation/upgrade instructions, please see
Did you get a home all button in emc2.2? home all and the ctrl-home
keystroke are only enabled when AXIS thinks that there's a homing order
defined in the inifile, and disabled otherwise. (they're just two ways
to access the same underlying function)
We didn't intentionally change this between
stepconf should write an inifile that enables home all if you have
home switches for all axes. If you don't have home switches, or you
have them for only some axes, then axis won't write an inifile that
enables home all.
If you do have home switches on all axes, then the home button should
You are missing various important prerequisites to build emc2.
RTAI is the kernel with real-time extensions required by emc2 to control
machinery. A user has contributed instructions on building it on our
wiki:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Debian_Lenny_Compile_RTAI
The same
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:38:48AM +, Steve Blackmore wrote:
I found that stepconf doesn't create a lathe style tooltable, and if you
do try to touch a tool off, it fails with cannot have an x tool offset
with orientation 0
This is a bug. I entered it on sourceforge. For now, you can use
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:11:34AM +, Chris Morley wrote:
the pin motion.motion-inpos doen't seem to exist anymore
try changing it to motion.in-position.
I made a note about this incompatible change on the wiki:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?UPDATING
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:13:42PM +0100, alan battersby wrote:
My question is, are variables #1 etc also global in the sense that if I
set #1= 99 before the call is its value pushed on some stack and
retrieved again after the call or is the value just overwritten by the
parameter value of
Why is it important that the signals be close to 90 degrees out of
phase? Here's why: imagine they're some smaller amount (e.g., 45
degrees). That means that there's a smaller time for at least one of
the 4 states of the quadrature progression at any given speed. In the
45 degree case, it makes
The jitter really leads to two calculations (together with the step
driver timings you enter):
* the maximum step rate (bigger jitter - lower step rate)
* the direction setup/hold value (no real effect on step rate)
If your configuration still starts and doesn't give the unexpected
realtime
Thanks for your report. Another user had reported this problem on irc,
and we already have a fix for the problem that will be in the next
release.
Besides the workaround of not using G64 P-, I believe that specifying
half-circles rather than full circles will avoid the problem.
As you observed,
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:29:51PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
I can't answer this, but I think we need a lot more info on what the
G-code for these holes looks like.
The gcode that causes these problems can be as simple as
G0 X??? Y???
G3 I1 F100
M2
i.e., a full circle of radius 1
probe_parport enables ISA PNP parallel ports which are not assigned
an I/O address by the BIOS. probe_parport is expected to have no effect
for PCI parports. Some on-board parports behave like ISA PNP ports,
though.
Jeff
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:20:24PM +, James Reed wrote:
How big is 2.3.0 Beta 2? Can I load it on a USB stick and transfer it to the
computer in the shop (miles away)?
Yes, you can fit the required files on all but the smallest USB sticks.
See the Installing off-line section of
As far as I know, rtai (the real-time kernel that emc2 uses on x86
ubuntu systems) does not currently support the Sheeva ARM CPU. Before
emc2 can run on a system to control hardware, you have to either port a
supported rtos to it, or port rtapi to an rtos that is available for
that system.
It is
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 05:04:57PM -0400, Andrey Dmitriev wrote:
I have been told, that it's not recommended to have a raid group
across shelves, yet we have a few setups that are working just fine,
however I might not just be aware of either risk, or a potential
performance degradation.
There's essentially no documentation of the user interface APIs besides
the source code.
If you want to develop an interface in C++, have a look at shcom.hh and
a user of the shcom code such as emcrsh.cc.
If you want to develop an interface in Python, have a look at 'pydoc
emc', which is
In the upcoming emc 2.3 we've improved this. The message that is now a
pop-up will instead show in the corner of the axis window, and you can
hit S or click the pause/resume icon immediately. To dismiss the
individual messages, you can click the X, or hit ctrl-space to dismiss
them all.
With
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:50:46PM -0400, John Guenther wrote:
Thanks Jeff, I went looking for pydoc.emc and could not find it on my
emc2=2.3.0 installation. Where does one find this typically? I did a
find on the entire machine and did not come up with it
pydoc emc is a command to type in
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 09:29:47AM +0800, ygdan1001 wrote:
Dear sir:
There is an error when I build emc2 realtime, please tell me how to install
kernel headers package.
2.1. Preparing Ubuntu to compile emc2
[...]
2.1.2. On Ubuntu with EMC2 package already installed
Use
If you're using AXIS, you can add to the default suffix list by
specifying
[FILTERS]
PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .xyzzy My favorite extension
when you do this, .xyzzy files will be shown by default, and you'll be
able to double-click to open them.
However, this does not change the behavior when
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:02:25AM -0400, John Guenther wrote:
Jeff,
Sorry for my ignorance about EMC at this point, but where do make this
change?
In your .ini file, such as ~/emc/configs/my-mill/my-mill.ini. If you
are using stepconf, you have to make this change after you're done
running
I'm pleased to announce the first stable release of the 2.3 series, emc
2.3.0. This version has many new features compared to emc 2.2.8.
The new packages are now available for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron in the
package repositories. Because this version is incompatible with emc
2.2.8 in several
Yes, this is one of the new features in emc 2.3.0.
I modified the sample axis_9axis config file to specify
[DISPLAY]
GEOMETRY=XAYZ
The meaning of [DISPLAY]GEOMETRY is described in the documentation:
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.3/html/config_ini_config.html#sub:AXIS-Interface
besides A
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:28:14PM +1000, John Pfleger wrote:
The HOSTMOT2 firmware package does not seem available.
It looks like there was an error creating the Dapper package repository
for emc2.3. Until this is fixed, you can directly download the firmware
.deb (I recommend saving it and
A web search indicates this is a bug in Suse's gettext package.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264110
You can probably work around this problem by making the following change
in src/emc/usr_intf/stepconf/Submakefile:
-PYI18NSRCS += emc/usr_intf/stepconf/stepconf.py
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:28:14PM +1000, John Pfleger wrote:
The HOSTMOT2 firmware package does not seem available. It does for Hardy on
my test system.
This has now been fixed. After updating package lists again, the
firmware packages should be listed as available.
Jeff
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 02:00:09PM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote:
Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake packages should follow within a few days.
The packages for Dapper are now available as well.
Jeff
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:25:28PM +1000, John Pfleger wrote:
FYI
From the document page http://www.linuxcnc.org/content/view/5/5/lang,en/
the link the HAL Manual PDF is broken (404)
http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/HAL_Documentation.pdf
I've corrected the link.
The updated URL is
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:02:49AM -0700, George Reeder wrote:
I am copying lines from CHAPTER 22 MPG PENDANT 22.2 Hook it up in HAL
to my Servo_Sim .hal file and running the Servo_Sim program after I install
each line in the .hal file. Most lines go in and the program still runs
however
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:06:22AM -0700, George Reeder wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the help. I sure appreciate it.
I have every line working now except the two:
net scale1 mux4.0.se10 = parport.1.pin-09-in
net scale2 mux4.0.se11 = parport.1.pin-10-in
Any ideas what else could be the problem?
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:31:13PM +0300, Kenny wrote:
Hi,
I just upgraded from emc2.2.8 to emc2.3 and it will not startup with my
Logitech Joypad configuration.
HAL: ERROR: pin_new called after hal_ready
ERROR: button 0 export failed with err=-3
custom_postgui.hal:6: pin 'joypad.axis.0'
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:04:47PM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote:
It seems that the Touch Off feature uses the units that are currently
selected.
Yes, it uses the display units. For radius vs diameter mode, it uses
the active gcode (it can't go off of displayed units, because both
radius and
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:04:32PM +0800, ygdan1001 wrote:
checking for glib... configure: error: no -- required until somebody makes
modbu s optional
This line. It means something.
Jeff
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On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:53:37PM +0800, ygdan1001 wrote:
Thanks Jeff.
But what should I do about it ?
Install the required package using your operating system's package
management system.
Jeff
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If your configuration uses hal_joystick, it will not work in 2.3.0.
This issue was reported before, and it will be fixed in 2.3.1, but
that's not released yet.
If your configuration uses hal_input, then as far as I know it'll work
properly in 2.3.0.
Jeff
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 04:37:07PM +1000, Frank Tkalcevic wrote:
I've just configured my first emc project, a 9x20 lathe conversion. I'm
using a large servo for the spindle - I'm hoping to be able to use it as a
4th axis for some light engraving down the track.
My problem - I've set up the
you're using feedback speed to decide when to turn off the spindle? why
not use commanded speed instead? or maybe just a timeout based on the 3
second time you mentioned for acceleration (the component 'timedelay'
can do this)?
Jeff
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:54:05PM +1000, Frank Tkalcevic wrote:
toolpath preview being displayed all grey, or on top of other windows.
I don't know about the other issues you mentioned, but this is usually
caused by Desktop Effects, which Ubuntu enables by default on certain
Intel video
I'm pleased to announce the first bugfix release in the emc 2.3 series,
emc 2.3.1. A number of problems in the 2.3.0 release were fixed. See
below for a list.
The new packages are now available for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron in the
package repositories. If you already installed emc 2.3.0, this
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:30:43PM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote:
The new packages are now available for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron in the
package repositories. If you already installed emc 2.3.0, this will be
offered as an update.
An error on my part prevented this release from showing up
most likely cause: failure to 'addf' the function exported by debounce.
here's a standalone hal file that demonstrates debounce (run it with
'halcmd -I debouncedemo.hal' and use halscope to view the signals)
http://emergent.unpy.net/index.cgi-files/sandbox/debouncedemo.hal
and a screenshot of
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:39:40PM -0700, Michael Jones wrote:
LOGIC CONTROL TO POWER DRIVE TIMING
Symbol Parameter Test Conditions Min. Typ. Max. Unit
Source Current Turn-off Delay 300 ns
[...]
Does this help in deciding on the correct values to plug in to EMC?
No. These appear to be
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 09:31:46PM +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2009 18:00:40 +0100, you wrote:
Just a quick followup on my query about using a single index pulse for
threading. I got it set up on my lathe with a magnet and a hall sensor.
It reads the speed pretty
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