Is there a way to print a message to AXIS?

John,
That is what I wondered. I mentioned that earlier, but you must have missed it. At least now I know it will work.
Thanks again for all your help!

Hi

Missed all the activity by being asleep in bed!

You need to read this entry on the thread, which has the preconditions for successfully running ANY user M code

www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/compo...=21&id=16878&limit=6

As you guessed and John confirmed, you can't do things like this from the Live CD and expect them to work, unless you know a lot more about Linux than I am guessing that you do.

The Live CD is really just for evaluation and testing and then installation.
I would not consider actually running a machine from it. Far too slow and potentially problematic.

regards

Thanks ArcEye...that is how this all started (by reading that thread).

I don't have any plans to run a machine from the LiveCD, I was just doing some testing as I have a small cnc running for a company in another state that wanted some modifications done to their interface. I don't have Ubuntu or Axis installed on anything in my shop, that is why I was I was running it from the CD.

There appears to be so much that can be done with this software that I didn't realize...looks like I will have to install it on one of my machines. I have been a little leary about installing it as all my machines are running Windows. I know I have come accross threads about a dual boot system, guess I will look into that more.

You are right in assumming that I know very little about the software as I am an electrician by trade....not a programmer or cnc operator. This forum is a awesome tool for learning!

Thanks to you and John for helping me figure this out!

Dave

John & ArcEye,

I now have Ubuntu installed (dual boot), but I still can't get my message to pop up. What can I be missing?

Hi John,

1. I put my files (stopmessage.png and M112) in the following directory: /home/dave/emc2/nc_files.
2. My M112 files is this:
#!/bin/bash
eog /home/dave/emc2/nc_files/stopmessage.png
exit 0
3. I put "M112" in my .ngc program

I can run 'eog /home/dave/emc2/nc_files/stopmessage.png' in terminal and my message pops up. But, just as before, when my program reaches the M112 command, the program stops and nothing else happens. I have checked to make sure that 'M112' is an executable file as well.

I am running EMC-HAL-SIM-AXIS configuration. The .ini file (axis.ini) is located in : /home/dave/emc2/configs/sim. The Program_Prefix is : /home/dave/emc2/nc_files

absolutely nothing