Re: Setting up EMC

[Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Terry

I found one earlier post from you and copied it below.  I lost a bunch of 
stuff when I got pushed into an install that I wasn't ready for. Let me 
make up a run and ini file combination and send them to you as a tar ball 
that you can just move into the emc directory and try to run.

I'll get back to you tomorrow.  In the mean time, could you send me the 
ini that you hacked up and let me see where the problems might be.  That 
way we can both learn where we are on this thing.

Ray


On Tuesday 16 July 2002 08:59 pm, you wrote:
> Ray
> I am still trying to setup this EMC software. It is taking a lot of
> time, I only have a few hours every once and a while. Is there an EMC
> Hobby Group, or someone, somewhere in southeastern Mass. that you know
> of that could help me?  I have Linux working, and EMC from BDI working
> the simulation part works. I spent the last three hours editing emc
> .ini and then tried to get it to talk to the machine, It didn?t. I
> have down loaded and read many pages from www.Linuxcnc.org  from yahoo
> edm-dro pages and all the other places that I can find to help set
> this thing up. I would like to get this running soon. If there is no
> one to help is there a web site where I can go and get step by step
> directions ( ones that anyone can follow ). Any and all help is very
> much appreciated.
> Thank you for your time.
> Terry Twombly
> ttwombly-at-cyonisp.net



On Friday 14 June 2002 07:03 pm, you wrote:
> Can I get the answers or where can I find the answers to the questions?
> I am ready to take the next steps. I have Linux setup on a 266
> computer, can get to the desk top of Linux, that has several EMC Icons
> on it there is EMC?Generic, EMC-mini, EMC-run and EMC-sim. When I
> click on EMC-sim I get a nice control panel with big old numbers on
> it, from there I can click on estop, spindle on and open file. I can
> make the numbers move. The rest of the EMC--- Icons do nothing. Some
> more of the things that I can do is open in root, get to a file
> manager click on open file. Then on to ?usr?, then ?local?, then ?EMC?
> then there is all of the EMC files that I know that I need to make
> some changes to, (here it is). How and which ones do I make changes to.
>
> I have CNC-Pro on another computer that I want to replace with EMC; I
> have the setting from cnc-pro. They are X 4000 steps per inch, Y 4000
> steps per inch, Z 4000 steps per inch, max velocity inch per minuets
> X-75, Y-75, Z?30, Max Acceleration foot per second squared 8.3333. I
> have fast jog, X-10, Y-10, Z-8, slow jog X-5, Y-5, Z-4 then debounce
> distance in all axis?s .020 per inch.
>
> The only thing here that is set in stone is the step per inch.
>
> This is going to run a bench top like mill that I have been working on
> for a long time. The way it is set up now is with stepper motors, I
> have put linear encoders on the mill so after I get it running in
> steppermode I am planning on changing it to use the encoders.
>
> I know that I have asked a lot with this message but it is info that I
> need to make this project work and the people on this site have been
> very helpful.
> Thank you for all your time.
> Terry Twombly
> ttwombly-at-cyonisp.net