Re: [Emc-users] What hardware should buy to start

2009-09-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 September 2009, Jon Elson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> You can't do anything about the surface of the raw material, but when >> machining, the surface should be well flooded by some relatively oxygen >> free fluid which will cover the cutting edge, and the freshly cut surface >> as

Re: [Emc-users] What hardware should buy to start

2009-09-05 Thread stustev
Try a conventional cut for the finish pass on steel and see if you don't like the finish better. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Jon Elson Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:41:39 To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] What hardware should bu

Re: [Emc-users] What hardware should buy to start

2009-09-05 Thread Jon Elson
Gene Heskett wrote: > You can't do anything about the surface of the raw material, but when > machining, the surface should be well flooded by some relatively oxygen free > fluid which will cover the cutting edge, and the freshly cut surface as > quickly as possible. 2 schools of thought here,

Re: [Emc-users] How to "learn" movements with EMC

2009-09-05 Thread Yann Jautard
Great ! Many thanks to everybody, there is a lot of great ideas I will explore soon ! (I have to finish the hardware first... Just operating the steppers with no machine to move is not really useful :/ ) - "Matthew Ireland" a écrit : > > > > As the moves I need to do are very simples,

Re: [Emc-users] What hardware should buy to start

2009-09-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 05 September 2009, Youda He wrote: >Thanks, I am planning to cut aluminum, not the hard type, I can take when >cutting, so maybe I'll cut slowly, what stepper is recommended? How big >should it be? > >-- Youda Be aware that _any_ alu will have a coat of alu oxide on it, thickness depe

[Emc-users] Upgrading fixed the problems with ubuntu-8.04-desktop-emc2-aj12-i386.iso & hm2-servo

2009-09-05 Thread Erik Christiansen
Just in case anyone else should stumble into these waters, this further error confounded trying to start emc with a 5i20, using the demo configs: HAL: ERROR: function 'hm2_5i20.0.read' not found hm2-servo.hal:55: addf failed There was one hit on google, but the pastebin post had expired. However