[Chris sent me this message in private, but then suggested that I should
send the answer to the list as well]
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:23:35PM +0000, Chris Epicier wrote:
> Hi Jeff
>
> I'd be more than happy to get this up running through emc. The machine
> is currently thought to have one single parallel port and a 4 chnl
> controller, so I must sitch say "X" to "V" in order to get that up
> using one controller. I will have the machine physically availabel vom
> Nov 17 on. You know: big boys, big toys and I am keen to play on right
> away. EMC2 is set up through the live CD and now running happily from
> HD. I prefer KDE, but I guess that is not complicating things. The
> machine is a AMD Geode 1750, 2 G Ram, 60 G HD, Video is a matrox 450
> DH but only one moitor is used. I disabled all ACPI and APM in the
> BIOS as read it is adviseable to do so.
If you have the disk space to spare and a good network connection, you
can add kde to ubuntu after installing it to your hard drive. I believe
it is as simple as executing
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
but search the web to find out the right way to do it before messing up
your working install.
> This week will be dedicated in getting to know emc and probably axis
> as a front end. I should add, I am a civil engineer, kinda crafty but
> zero cnc experience. I do 3D CAD all day and know of the fuzzing
> around to get data converted from one to another system. At the time I
> do not bother how to get from CAD to G-code, there are solutions,
> which one I will use will be decided later on.
>
> Q1: emc is capable of driving cnc machines through 2 lpts. do I need a
> second one or is it possible to get al four channels served through a
> single lpt? According to the manual it should be feasible through one
> lpt.
Yes, you can use multiple parports, and you can put more than 4 step
outputs on one parport. hal allows a lot of flexibility in this regard.
> Q2: can I uses axis to visualise, dry run my hot wire cut assembly? I
> should assume yes, but then how does axis know or being told XZ and UW
> are running independantly?
I don't think axis will have a useful preview for wire cutting. It will
show the XZ movements just fine, but it won't show UW. In the past I've
wondered about how this might be shown, but I don't have any concrete
ideas. If you have used other software that previews wire cutting
gcode, can you tell me what it looks like, or send me a link to a screen
shot?
>
> best regards
>
> chris
>
> PS: If successful, be sure there will be pics and story available for
> inclusion in the emc wiki! My supplier got hot eares when he learned
> about emc!
Jeff
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge
Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes
Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world
http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/
_______________________________________________
Emc-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
