[Emc-users] Washing machine motors for CNC

Using Fisher & Paykel (Pykel?) Smart Drive Washing Machine motors. I've not heard of this brand in the US. Are they Australian? I could afford a set of brand new NEMA 56 steppers & drives before a trip to Australia to search junk yards ;^) The guy claims 0.0178 mm (0.000700787402 in) per step. ht

Re: [Emc-users] dxf2gcode

Funny, I never noticed that! The website is in German but the program is in English. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 23:25, tomp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Emory Smith wrote: > ... >> As Jon said, EMC uses G-Code but many CAD programs have the ability >> to export in DXF

Re: [Emc-users] Testing

As Jon said, EMC uses G-Code but many CAD programs have the ability to export in DXF format. If you can do this, then check out: http://www.christian-kohloeffel.homepage.t-online.de/dxf2gocde.html This fellow has written a DXF to G-code converter that works with everything I've thrown at it. YMMV

Re: [Emc-users] M66 digital input control?

What John and mcinquino said ;^) I often forget about the path of least resistance. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I would try pypvc first. > > Emory Smith wrote: >> For simulation, you could connect a few switches t

Re: [Emc-users] M66 digital input control?

For simulation, you could connect a few switches to the parport with appropriate pull-up resistors. You've probably got an old printer cable lying around that you could cut up and trace out (with an Ohmmeter) a few pins for ground, +5 and some inputs. While you're at it, you could also hang some LE

Re: [Emc-users] microstepping stepper power drive

You should be able to substitute bigger output transistors and emitter/source resistors for the originals. You might have to go to a lower resistance for the resistors to "trick" the drive into not going into protection. Halving their resistance would allow 5 Amps from a circuit designed to limit a

Re: [Emc-users] two e-stop switches

Oops, sorry. Your last email came in as I was responding. Emory On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 17:41, Emory Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for bringing this up. > EMC has provisions for soft limits set in the ini file, hard limit > switches (some of mine also > serve as Ho

Re: [Emc-users] two e-stop switches

Thanks for bringing this up. EMC has provisions for soft limits set in the ini file, hard limit switches (some of mine also serve as Home switches) and E(mergency)-Stop switches. My E-stop switches (big Allen-Bradley N.O. buttons with guards) are tied to the estop input pin and a relay to kill pow

Re: [Emc-users] two e-stop switches

Why do you need them on different pins? You could wire two NO switches in parallel or two NC switches in series. Each set would be handled by a single pin. Emory On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 15:10, Len Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I configure hal to handle two e-stop switches on two diff

Re: [Emc-users] engrave-11.py

Try using a text editor such as 'PSPad'. It will respect extensions and line endings. About the only thing notepad is fit for is deletion. If you must use notepad, quote the filename in "Save As...". On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 17:29, Dave Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everyone > > Oh bo

Re: [Emc-users] EMC BDI CD Burn

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 05:45, John Domville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a copy of Linux already running on my CNC dedicated computer long > before the disk arrived from SHERLINE. (No ECM2 on the computer) I had down > loaded the ISO image to another Windows (XP Pro) computer and with that >

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port in the future - query

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:00, Jeff Epler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:34:36PM +, alan wrote: >> So really my query is also about the future. Where will emc go if >> parallel ports become a thing of the past? > > It can go to systems that still have parallel ports, ev

Re: [Emc-users] Desperately seeking my floppy drive

For newcomers, my vote goes to usb sticks. No messy networking to figure out, username/passwords to remember and they are miles ahead of floppies from a reliability standpoint. You do, however have to remember to take them out of the source machine and to the EMC machine ;^) In our case, the house

Re: [Emc-users] Desperately seeking my floppy drive

On my system with the same problem, I had to: cd /dev mknod /dev/fd0 b 2 0 chmod 660 fd0 chown root:floppy fd0 and then it worked as advertised. It was so strange, I emailed it to myself in case it happened on my next build. You'll probably need to precede each command with sudo. -- First they

Re: [Emc-users] SMI-Like latency problems that don't respond to rtapi_smi.ko fix

This might not be of any help to you but my home machine - an IBM E Series X Server 205 is unusable for EMC because of the RTAI delay problems. I only run in Sim mode at home (duh!) but put up with and ignore the errors just to see how a job will run. Running the latency test on this machine shows

Re: [Emc-users] em2-review: homing

Also, if you're getting good latency and performance from the laptop, post that info here as well as model, mfgr, etc. Some laptops don't work well for EMC or other things requiring timeliness. E On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:50 PM, rtwas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, &g

Re: [Emc-users] ANNOUNCE: pycam - 3D CNC Toolpath Generation

I see the docs follow the standard Linux documentation standards. NONE! Where is PyOpenGL-3.0.0b5.tar.gz? Nothing like that in pycam-0.1.1.tgz and running 'python setup.py bdist_egg' or 'python setup.py py2exe' just causes beeps and a number of 1.9MB PostScript files to be created. Emory On Wed,

Re: [Emc-users] Emc on old computer

I used to use a P3/600 with Ubuntu 804/EMC and it was barely adequate. EMC ran reliably but trying to edit a file at the same time was painfully slow. As Ray said, check around, look in thrift & junk stores, etc. Good luck and don't give up, Emory On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Doug Pollard <[E

[Emc-users] steplen, etc

Are steplen, stepspace, dirhold and dirsetup in nanoseconds or microseconds? For instance, is "setp stepgen.0.stepspace 1000" absurdly wrong? Or does that mean 1 microsecond? Did the specs change somewhere between versions? Ubuntu 8.0.4/EMC 2.2.6 Thanks, -- Emory

Re: [Emc-users] Info for new users of Linux/EMC

Thanks for the kind words. I also put a link to your page on mine. Will put mine on the wiki after a week or so's feedback. Emory You might want to add a link to it on the wiki - I added my tutorial on > there and that page has had a decent amount of activity according to my stat > files. > ---

[Emc-users] Info for new users of Linux/EMC

I put up a page that might be helpful to new users: http://stratcat50.googlepages.com/Linux-EMC.html If it sucks, tell me. If you see errors, tell me. If you think it needs anything (including deletion ;^), tell me. It's by no means complete and suggestions are welcome. This is in no way meant to

Re: [Emc-users] Hardy install using emc2-install.sh

Maybe try 'sudo apt-get update' before the install script. -- Emory - 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

Re: [Emc-users] EMC Basic Setup Tutorial - draft

Well done! I don't have much to add that hasn't been covered but, when CoffeCup expires, give SeaMonkey a try. I use it for my Q&D web stuff. Available for Win, Lin & Mac and can be configured to always come up in html edit mode. And it's free at http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ Also search for '

Re: [Emc-users] Reply to thread 'Survey about EMC 2 ( Aimed at non users)'

Well, the lawyers oughtta like that. Please don't use the word "Word". It's trademarked by Microsoft . Now, I'll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably be sued by MS , whoever owns "Conversational

Re: [Emc-users] Disabling Sound for Increased performance.

Look in '/etc/rc2.d'. That's where all the startup files live. They are links to real files in '/etc/init.d'. Back in the days of real Linux, I knew what every file in there did. Now there's so much undocumented Debian/Ubuntu junk in there it's hard to tell what does what. I have disabled these an

Re: [Emc-users] Disabling Sound for Increased performance.

AM > > > Please respond to > "Enhanced Machine > Controller (EMC)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > sourceforge.net> > > > > > > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 07:31 -0500, Emory Smith wrote: > ... sni

Re: [Emc-users] Disabling Sound for Increased performance.

My EMC machine rarely needs internet connectivity so the flash drive works fairly well for getting gcode into the machine. I'd much rather have a network connection to the machines in the house for doing that. And will have a wired connection eventually. As it turns out, I built a biquad a couple o

Re: [Emc-users] Limit Switches

Hate to be a "me-too-er" but I'll be watching this thread. What I'd like would be to assert a pin om the parport for a Sonalert. On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Len Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a small desktop CNC router and axis. > > > > Limit switches would be helpful in jog mod

Re: [Emc-users] Disabling Sound for Increased performance.

Cool! As long as I've been using Linux/UNIX, I didn't realize that the capitalization (or lack of) in the run commands would do that. (Doh!) It does make sense of course because ls != LS, etc, etc. Ya learn something everyday! Thanks Emory On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Mark Wendt (Contractor)

Re: [Emc-users] Disabling Sound for Increased performance.

My sentiments, exactly! I have sound, networking, update and several other services disabled. I use a somewhat unconventional method of doing it. I create the directory /etc/rcd.2.not and move* the unneeded links from rc2.d there. That way, if I need any of those services back, I can issue /etc/rc2

[Emc-users] DXF2GCODE

There is a fellow in Germany that has come up with a DXF to gcode converter for Linux (and Windows). I've not had a chance to try it out but it looks promising. Similar to what ACE is to Windows. If this works out, we may be able to do a project in Linux, start to finish! Website (in German): http

Re: [Emc-users] G-code file problem

I do my "artwork" in Corel Draw Windows, export as DXF, convert to gcode with ACE (windows), tweak the gcode in CIMCOEdit, then copy it to a USB flash drive, copy from flash to EMC machine, do final tweaks in gedit or scite and run it. I don't think your problems come from the Windows/Linux copy pr

Re: [Emc-users] latency test

Applications/System Tools/Terminal ought to get you there. The shell is where you issue commands in text mode. (Real Linux ;^) To prevent mistakes, I usually copy what's needed and paste it into the terminal window (Edit/Paste or right-click, paste)). One line at a time. Hit after each pasted line

[Emc-users] All parallel ports not the same!

I just upgraded my properly working EMC machine from a P3/800 to a P4/1600 and was getting really bad motion control an all three axes. I just copied my .ini and .hal files from the old machine expecting everything to "just work". I'm using two parports, the on-board for axis control, the PCI for s

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Perfboard Wire

I use some Belden control cable left over from a lighting project. It's 10 or 12 conductors of 24 ga stranded wire. It doesn't melt near as bad as Cat 5 or phone wire. You might check with sound and lighting companies around town to see if they have any scraps. A 10' piece will last a good while.

Re: [Emc-users] gedit/gcode questions

; does take a bit to get used to but once your over the learning curve it is > easier. > > John > > On 3 Jul 2008 at 21:12, Emory Smith wrote: > >> Any way in gedit to turn off the history of FIND/REPLACE? >> Using it to edit GCode and the history of last find/replace is >

Re: [Emc-users] EDITOR

AXIS is it and it worked! Thanks, Emory - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potentia

[Emc-users] gedit/gcode questions

Any way in gedit to turn off the history of FIND/REPLACE? Using it to edit GCode and the history of last find/replace is bugging me. It could cause a dangerous/expensive situation if not carefully paid attention to. Just let me put in what I want to replace and what to replace it with! Or is ther

[Emc-users] EDITOR

Where do I put "EDITOR = gedit" in my INI file? Thanks, Emory - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet,

Re: [Emc-users] bicycle wheel, to machine

Good call, Ian. Some semi-pneumatic wheels could maybe used for the rollers. A quick & dirty (very much of each ;^) drawing of my idea of such a jig can be found at http://stratcat50.googlepages.com/BicycleWheelThing.gif Certainly not the definitive answer to the question but might provoke better i

Re: [Emc-users] Rookie help

t;goes crazy" don't expect the machine to remain uncrazy! > > John > > - > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about an

Re: [Emc-users] Website Found

22, 2008 at 6:40 AM, John Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like it is run by a mach supporter... -- Emory Smith - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services fo

Re: [Emc-users] SheetCam TNG V0.0.24 for Linux released

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Re: [Emc-users] SheetCam TNG V0.0.24 for Linux released

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Re: [Emc-users] SheetCam TNG V0.0.24 for Linux released

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Re: [Emc-users] E-stop Surprise

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Re: [Emc-users] Parallel port PCI card

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Re: [Emc-users] Way OT: Contact Lube

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Re: [Emc-users] Newbie Help Needed - Losing Steps

peeds where full-stepping causes resonance and > > dramatically lowers torque. > > > > Regards, > > > > John Kasunich > > Update - I switched to 1/4 stepping mode. Movement is smoother and > quieter. The top speed of each axis is now limited by the speed of the >

Re: [Emc-users] Parallel Port Problems

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Re: [Emc-users] Y axis shifting

FANTASTIC! The stability, configurability and general "feel" is vastly superior to all the DOS and Windows (non-) solutions I've tried. Thanks to all who offered suggestions. It also prompted me to clean up my nasty wiring. Emory -- Emory Smith [EMAIL PROT

[Emc-users] steplen, stepspace, dirsetup, and dirhold questions

of make-pulses. Use a stepspace value of 1 to signify "the smallest nonzero stepspace". -- Emory Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://defoliants.googlepages.com - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceFo

Re: [Emc-users] Y axis shifting

rest of the info on steplen, stepspace, dirhold & dirsetup that I didn't have. Looks interesting. But it's 1045PM, cold and raining so I'll just wait till tomorrow. Thanks again, > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://li

Re: [Emc-users] Y axis shifting

25V @ 1A. 1MHz max What stepper motors? Vexta PH265-04-C18, 1.8"/step, 5V 1A Thanks again, -- Emory Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://defoliants.googlepages.com - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new Source

[Emc-users] Y axis shifting

6.15 magma, EMC/Axis 2.1.0 The latency test shows around 16000 after running 20 minutes. I know Linux pretty well though have always run text mode in the past. The GUI is new and foreign to me. (And this from a Mac user ;^) EMC appears to be running fine. Thanks for any suggesti

Re: [Emc-users] rs232 output

> On Monday 03 December 2007, Emory Smith wrote: > >Unless you already have some sort of RS232 receiver/decoder for those > >valves, > >etc., it would be simpler to add a PCI parport. I did that and now have > all > >kinds > >of inputs and outputs. I paid about 12 U

Re: [Emc-users] rs232 output

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Re: [Emc-users] Can't control spindle with M3 command

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Re: [Emc-users] Multi I/O Driver support - kernel patch

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