Could you send your configuration files?
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 19:21:40 -0400 Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings everybody; > > Noisy, wet Saturday evening in progress. > > Over on the pi, I am attempting to combine enough code, and using 92 > offsets, make a brass 8mmx1.0 bolt for the cathead with a single file, > and 3 tool changes. > > So I have noted the default net settings in the config I started out > with appeared to be connected bass-ackward in terms of signal i/o. > > Without loading hal_manualtoolchange, it sails right on by an M6 > Tanything command like it was an empty line. > > So, following hints, I added to the end of the loadxx's in the hal file, > loadusr -w hal_manualtoolchange. > > That hangs it up and LCNC never brings up its screen. Take out the -w, > and it then tries to run but exits at the bottom of the hal file, > because the hal_manualtoolchange pins are not there. > > So the docs say to see such and such a manualtoolchange.hal file in > the configs/sim/axis subdir. Doesn't exist anywhere on the pi. > > Walk over to the mill and locate spits out at least 3 copies. So I cat > the last one, and copy its 'net' commands over to the pi's .hal file. > > Still will not run, doesn't open any gfx except the little box that > says its part of the tool changer stuffs, and it eventually, like it > says, times out and goes away. > > Call up another terminal_emulator on the pi and run a halmeter. > > halmeter says the documented signal pins are all there, and all false. > > I have not yet tried a direct copy of that stanza from the GO704fast.hal > file, which I now note is slightly different: > > loadusr -W hal_manualtoolchange > net tool-change-request iocontrol.0.tool-change => > hal_manualtoolchange.change > net tool-change-confirmed iocontrol.0.tool-changed <= > hal_manualtoolchange.changed > net tool-number iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number => > hal_manualtoolchange.number > net tool-prepare-loopback iocontrol.0.tool-prepare => > iocontrol.0.tool-prepared > > I do not have, from following the tuts, a net name hal-toolchange- > request, but at first glance the logic looks the same: > > unlinkp iocontrol.0.tool-change > unlinkp iocontrol.0.tool-changed > # now hook it up like the G0704 version > net tool-change <= hal_manualtoolchange.change => iocontrol.0.tool-change > net tool-changed <= hal_manualtoolchange.tool-changed => > iocontrol.0.tool-changed > net tool-prep-number <= hal_manualtoolchange.number => > iocontrol.tool-prep-number > > A tool change on the other 3 x86 machines from the M6 Tnumber line works > as expected w/o all this hassle. > > Those same lines from the sample manualtoolchange.hal have the i/o order > interchanged. > > What do I do next? I'd like to make some 8mm brass bolts tomorrow. > > Is this a pi bug, like my disappearing <> keys in the mdi cmdline box? > Thanks everybody. 19:21, 'spect I'd better go play short order cook. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
