How to setup a 4axis gantry plasma machine using gmoccapy?

Looks good. Does it work?

I didn't start


emad@Control:~$ linuxcnc
LINUXCNC - 2.8.0-pre1-2765-g5fec8d9
Machine configuration directory is '/home/emad/linuxcnc/configs/sim.gmoccapy.gmoccapy-JA.Gantry'
Machine configuration file is 'gantry_mm.ini'
Starting LinuxCNC...
Found file(REL): ./gantry_mm.hal
link (updating variable file): No such file or directory
task: main loop took 0.011148 seconds
(0, ' = ', '/usr/bin/gmoccapy')
(1, ' = ', '-ini')
(2, ' = ', '/home/emad/linuxcnc/configs/sim.gmoccapy.gmoccapy-JA.Gantry/gantry_mm.ini')
**** GMOCCAPY GETINIINFO ****
Preference file path: /home/emad/linuxcnc/configs/sim.gmoccapy.gmoccapy-JA.Gantry/gmoccapy_GANTRY_sim.pref
**** GMOCCAPY GETINIINFO ****
No DEFAULT_SPINDLE_SPEED entry found in [DISPLAY] of INI file
**** GMOCCAPY GETINIINFO ****
No MAX_RAPID_OVERRIDE entry found in [DISPLAY] of INI file
Default settings 100 % applied!
/usr/bin/gmoccapy:283: GtkWarning: Invalid icon size 48

self.widgets.window1.show()
task: main loop took 0.070226 seconds
task: main loop took 0.021292 seconds
**** GMOCCAPY INFO ****
**** No gmoccapy2.glade file present ****
**** GMOCCAPY INFO ****
**** Invalid embedded tab configuration ****
**** No tabs will be added! ****
**** GMOCCAPY INFO ****
**** audio available! ****
**** GMOCCAPY INFO ****
**** No virtual keyboard installed, we checked for <onboard> and <matchbox-keyboard>.
**** GMOCCAPY INFO ****
**** no valid probe config in INI File ****
**** disabled tool measurement ****
**** GMOCCAPY INFO: Gcode.lang found ****

(gmoccapy:8679): GtkSourceView-CRITICAL **: gtk_source_language_manager_set_search_path: assertion `lm->priv->ids == NULL' failed

**** GMOCCAPY INFO ****
File i_am_lost.ngc of the macro could not be found ****
we searched in subdirectories:

**** GMOCCAPY INFO ****
File halo_world.ngc of the macro could not be found ****
we searched in subdirectories:

**** GMOCCAPY INFO ****
File jog_around.ngc of the macro could not be found ****
we searched in subdirectories:

**** GMOCCAPY INFO ****
File increment.ngc of the macro could not be found ****
we searched in subdirectories:

**** GMOCCAPY INFO ****
File go_to_position.ngc of the macro could not be found ****
we searched in subdirectories:
**** GMOCCAPY GETINIINFO ****
Wrong entry [DISPLAY] CYCLE_TIME in INI File!
Will use gmoccapy default 150
**** GMOCCAPY INFO : inifile = /home/emad/linuxcnc/configs/sim.gmoccapy.gmoccapy-JA.Gantry/gantry_mm.ini ****:
**** GMOCCAPY INFO : postgui halfile = ../../gmoccapy_postgui.hal ****:
Could not open command file '../../gmoccapy_postgui.hal'
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
task: 972 cycles, min=0.000017, max=0.070226, avg=0.002009, 3 latency excursions (> 10x expected cycle time of 0.001000s)
LinuxCNC terminated with an error. You can find more information in the log:
/home/emad/linuxcnc_debug.txt
and
/home/emad/linuxcnc_print.txt
as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the terminal
emad@Control:~$

the sim/axis/gantry ha started but gmoccapy/gantry-JA didn't start

Amongst the cruft, this is the error:
Could not open command file '../../gmoccapy_postgui.hal'
If you edit the gantry-JA INI file to remove the reference to the postgui file, or, alternatively, add an empty gmoccapy_postgui.hal file, then it should run.

It's working. Thanks a lot, andy. I feel shy to ask you helping me start the config.

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