Re: need help with STEPPERS + ENCODERS, please ...
<snip> Others may jump in with more experience. This did come up before in a slightly different form (on Master 5 group) The link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Master5/message/11119 from Marris at
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japrenticeuk
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need help with STEPPERS + ENCODERS, please ...
I'm sorry to repost, but maybe my previous message was not clearly understandable. My question is pretty simple: I need to test MACH2 on closed loop. I would like to try using encoders+steppers+MACH2
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pavel59 <pavel@...>
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Re: ScreenTweak - a new Mach2 utility
--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "John Guenther" <j.guenther@v...> wrote: <snip> Now for a request: Is there any > way to be able to specify font size and perhaps font type? I was able to >
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japrenticeuk
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Spindle motor : was Banned on CCED
Dan, Don't worry about asking questions, that's why they are called questions. I,ve been banned three times from CCED and I couldn't give a flying f**k It still doesn't stop Bill from emailing for
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stevenson_engineers <john@...>
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Re: rc11 overwriting
overwrite", but -Snip Hi- Sounds like were gaining on it! The xml's overwrite on my win 2k and xp machines. These are on the same lan, could it be a setting of mine? Todd
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morgtod <todmorg@...>
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Re: rc11 overwriting
Todd: My fault. The 40 series of macro's was not set to "do not overwrite", but the .xml's were, so they SHOULDN'T overwrite. This meets up with murphy's law somewhere though. Thanks, Art
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Re: rc11 overwriting
Todd: Yes, backup your xml file before installing. I will look again at my installers ettings, but I'm sure I set it to "do not overwrite", but this seems to fail on some systems. I will see if I can
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Re: rc11 overwriting
trouble and Hi- I am thinking this happened because mach2 overwrote 1/2 of my macros, I am using #40-45, when mach2 installed it overwrote #40 through 42or43. These are the #'s that have a predefined
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morgtod <todmorg@...>
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Re: rc11 overwriting
No - right on brother!! Will have to wait for tomorrow for further reports - well past machining curfew here ;) You could always run it though - you have the lathe, file and tool offsets<G>. -- Steve
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Steve Blackmore <steve@...>
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Re: rc11 overwriting
Steve: I think its more related to the multithreading of the script engine which was just turned on. Can't quite see what yet, but as Todd said, when he copied in the old macro's, the parsing error
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Re: rc11 overwriting
Hi Todd - glad you posted this, I'm getting to think there's only me having these problems! Joke - of course it's not just me, either people aren't posting their bugs, or emailing Art direct ( hence
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Steve Blackmore <steve@...>
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Re: THC questions ...
Thanks Todd: I'll remove the fix and give you a hook to the button in a macro. Thanks for the tests.. Art www.artofcnc.ca
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Re: rc11 overwriting
Todd: It would really help if you can find out what macro causes this trouble and send it to me so I can correct it. Steve has a problem where he gets an init error as well, only he gets it once per
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Re: THC questions ...
just went to -snip Hi Art- Things seem worse with the thc offsets. Even with the thc off if I do a g28.1z.1 it runs but it displays a number in the z dro, not zero. Same thing hapens with the ref-z
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morgtod <todmorg@...>
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Re: rc11 overwriting
I copied my xml and the 5 macros that I use and it seems to work. If I copy the macro directory it crashes. Todd
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morgtod <todmorg@...>
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Encoder feedback/DRO on steppers ? (closed loop)
I have a question, I would like to try using my current stepper motors in a closed loop on Mach 2. I know there's no way to have Mach2 doing the job on itself. Did anybody here experienced a stepper
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pavel59 <pavel@...>
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rc11 overwriting
Hi Art, I tried loading rc11 over rc10 on my win2k machine and the program overwrote my macros and my xml file. I backed the entire mach2 dir, so I tried to restore my xml and macros. things looked
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morgtod <todmorg@...>
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Re: ScreenTweak - a new Mach2 utility
John, Kul Tool, that really makes things easier. Now for a request: Is there any way to be able to specify font size and perhaps font type? I was able to easily resize the screens to fit my display
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John Guenther <j.guenther@...>
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Re: plasma cutter
Hi All: Due to popular demand I have added multi-pass to the next version. If you have a fileset to cut 6mm deep, you can set it to do the first pass at a set depth and repeat x number of times with a
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Art <fenerty@...>
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Re: plasma cutter
-snip Hi, Use the servo's, with plasma cutting you need to maintain a fairly high speed, even in corners and curves. the 135# gantry will have lots of stored energy when you try to stop or reverse. On
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morgtod <todmorg@...>
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