Re: Some rambling about "Turn"
Jerry:
I do intend to handle this with a Taper Wizard. I am preparing the code for
easy use and addition of Wizards to do these types of tasks. For the Taper,
an Angle or Taper number will be
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Re: Mach2 jog keys lag
I see from my rapidly overflowing mailbox that some of you have an email
virus. I have letters from several with "Approved" or "You details
attached.".
I suspect a bad new virus is on the
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Re: Some rambling about "Turn"
Good idea a "virtual compound rest" to work with a jog button....You would need to type in line like: G0 Z4.0 X.5 then there should be a code for jog...if you don't want it executed. (if the taper is
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Arturo Moises <arturo5@...>
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Re: Mach2 jog keys lag
Hi Servo
I started up in vga mode and the problem went away. unfortunatly I
only had 640x480 res and that aint gonna cut it with mach2. I tried
uninstaling the video card drivers and reinstaling but
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tig415
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Path Display
Hi Art/Group....In the process of altering the video setup from 32bit
to 256 colour (this by the way has reduced the "shot bearings" sound
on Mach1, I'll try MachII next week) however I now have a
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francisburton <[email protected]>
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Re: Mach2 jog keys lag
Don't know what Video card you have but I had similar problems on my Compaq laptop with a ATI Radeon 7500. Switching to 1024x768 or 1280x1024 resolution (from the native LCD 1440x1050) and disabling
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fcccustom
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missing steps
Hi Art and others
I noticed that during the execution of a move, if you toggle between
screens the pulse output is interrupted. On my machine if your
going more than thirty inches a minute and
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joshsxr
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Some rambling about "Turn"
Hi Art 'n All,
First let me appologize for posting to the former forum, I really
must delete that icon rifght away!
I've been reading some "International Correspondence School" books
that my Dad
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ozzie34231 <Ozzie@...>
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Re: Mach2 jog keys lag
Derek,
The symptoms sound much like my PC acts when I have Mach2 and the Internet opened at the same time. I'm running an Intel P4 3.06gHz CPU and even with that Mach2 still demands the undivided
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Servo Wizard <servowizard@...>
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Re: Mach2 jog keys lag
Hi Arturo
I'm at home on an XP machine. I'm running windows 2000 on the
problem machine but I don't think it has that option.
I'll check it out when I get to work in the morning.
derek
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tig415
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Re: Parametric Spline?
Servo:
I may attach them to macro calls so they can be immplemented by me or
someone else as need arises.
Art
www.artofcnc.ca
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Parametric Spline?
Art,
Do you have any plans for adding spline interpolation (G06)and
hypothetical axis interpolation (G07) to Mach2?
Servo
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Servo Wizard <servowizard@...>
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Re: Mach2 jog keys lag
Art:
Good point, hadn't thought of that one....Might even work..
Art
www.artofcnc.ca
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Re: Direction pulses
Jerry:
Thats what I tend to call the "Futz" factor. Its when you run 100's of
tests and convice yourself that a problem is connected to a certain function
or event. Only to find that co-incidence
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Re: Direction pulses
Hi Art,
That being the case, my problem with a certain code running in the
wrong direction may have been an intermittant bad wiring connection,
although it seems that the results were very consistant
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ozzie34231 <Ozzie@...>
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Re: Mach2 jog keys lag
Well its getting weird
If I bring up the task manager and open up Mach 2 the CPU usage hangs
around 15 percent. When I load the Gcode the usage jumps up to 100
percent and becomes sluggish. If I
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tig415
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Re: Direction pulses
Jerry,
Only when the direction changes. The direction line will stay in whatever
state it is in until a different state is set.
Bob Campbell
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Robert Campbell <bob@...>
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Re: Direction pulses
Jerry:
The Direction pin holds its level until it needs to change to another
direction. This is to make it conform to most controllers specs.
.
Art
www.artofcnc.ca
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Direction pulses
Hi All,
Can someone tell me if a direction pulse is sent to the servo
controller, (Gecko), for every step, or only when the direction
changes?
Thanks Jerry
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ozzie34231 <Ozzie@...>
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Re: Laptop Computers
When I started to get swarf in my Keyboard I went to CompUSA and
picked up one of those flexible, waterproof keyboards. The keys are
sealed between sheets of molded rubber. You can pour a coke or a
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Bruce Buchner
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