#linuxcnc-devel Logs

Aug 06 2017

11:43 AM skunkworks: seb must have lost internet or something..
11:45 AM skunkworks: or power
12:50 PM archivist: skunkworks, out camping I think
12:51 PM skunkworks: ah - I remember that
12:52 PM skunkworks: of course it is a conspiracy...
12:52 PM skunkworks: http://forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc/32941-linuxcnc-on-debian-stretch?start=30#97061
12:55 PM archivist: like when I had my back to the engine today and it stops because I was not looking at it
12:58 PM skunkworks: I am the opsite with computers.. I walk into the room and whatever wasn't working starts working. Pisses the wife off.
01:06 PM archivist: hehe
02:34 PM jepler: skunkworks: the correct link is http://www.linuxcnc.org/testing-stretch-rtpreempt/
05:41 PM skunkworks: jepler, thanks.. Duh
05:47 PM jepler: the other URL was the one originally mentioned on this channel before I built i686 images too
05:59 PM andypugh: I tried that stepconf file from the bug-tracker. Something is definitely peculiar with what stepconf does in that situation.
05:59 PM andypugh: https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues/315
05:59 PM andypugh: Has anyone else looked at it?
06:28 PM skunkworks: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/ajaxcnc-control-products/326104-will-quot-acorn-quot-release-4.html#post2078646
06:56 PM andypugh: skunkworks: “I have a lot of respect for those folks that are fluent in the internal workings of LinuxCNC. (They are zealots though!)”
06:56 PM andypugh: That’s probably true, isn’t it?
06:57 PM Tom_L: andypugh have you messed with remap any?
06:57 PM andypugh: Yes, a bit
06:57 PM Tom_L: looking at M6 a bit
06:57 PM Tom_L: for the orient spindle thing
06:58 PM andypugh: Thinking about it, I should have said “a lot” as I created complete lathe-roughing cycles in remap
06:58 PM Tom_L: hah
06:58 PM Tom_L: i don't know python though
06:58 PM Tom_L: hoping to do what i need with subs
06:58 PM andypugh: You won’t need Python, do it as a G-code remap with an M19 in it
06:58 PM Tom_L: exactly
06:59 PM Tom_L: do you put the M19 before you call M6 in the sub?
06:59 PM Tom_L: or after
06:59 PM Tom_L: to maintain it's original functionality
07:00 PM andypugh: After, I woud imagine.
07:00 PM Tom_L: i've been looking at: /configs/sim/axis/remap/extend-builtins
07:01 PM Tom_L: right now i'm working on the 'wiring' end but reading about the software side
07:03 PM Tom_L: if i had a tool changer, then i would just call the carousel comp i think
07:05 PM andypugh: Why are you wanting orient if you don’t have a tool changer?
07:05 PM Tom_L: i'm just testing it
07:06 PM andypugh: (And you might be able to not remap, and just pass tool-change-request to orient-enable, and oriented to tool-changed,,
07:07 PM Tom_L: somewhere don't you still have to call M19?
07:07 PM Tom_L: or will the orient-enable signal trigger that as well
07:07 PM Tom_L: that does make sense though
07:19 PM Tom_L: and if there was a carousel, it maybe it could be between oriented and tool-changed
07:20 PM Tom_L: and send carousel.n.ready to tool-changed instead
07:21 PM Tom_L: seems like it needs more than that...
07:42 PM andypugh: M19 is how you get a variable angle command out to HAL. But for a fixed angle you can use just the orient component.
07:43 PM Tom_L: does orient use the index channel of the encoder?
07:48 PM Tom_L: doesn't look like it
07:50 PM Tom_L: brb
08:19 PM skunkworks: andypugh, probably. but correct.. ;)
08:19 PM skunkworks: don't understand why everyone doesn't use linuxcnc
08:20 PM skunkworks: there are people that think pc base controls suck just because of their experience with mach
08:21 PM Tom_itx: commercial controls are �C based too, not much if any difference really
08:21 PM andypugh: Yes, I can’t see any reason not to use linuxCNC, but then I use LinuxCNC
08:54 PM Tom_itx is now known as Tom_L