Er, no. It’s not that simple; LinuxCNC isn’t plug-and-play. If you don’t have any prior knowledge, you should put the A6 aside for now and start with simple stepper motors. You’ll first need to learn how the system works and what each component does. With EtherCAT, you’re moving beyond the hobbyist level, and even professionals sometimes find it frustrating.
I only broke 4 mice from throwing them in anger... its fiiiinnnee.
In seriousness though, I find its less about beginner vs expert in CNC stuff, and more about if you are well versed in linux usage. Most of my troubles setting up were because the instructions just assume you know everything about linux already and leave a lot of critical details out. I am working with one of my customers to trying an make a true step by step guide.
If you do know "nothing", step and direction with a mesa card is generally pretty safe cause its mostly done by a wizard. You aren't mucking in the terminal or doing much editing in HAL.
(also important to note ethercat in linuxcnc has some quirks too, its not quite "final" in my opinion)
image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/laughing.png
This sounds familiar to me.
I just ended up tearing the whole setup apart in frustration every time and starting over from scratch.
@Spezidrone, this isn’t meant to be a criticism. But it really is an advantage to build a test system with steppers first. That’s the best way to get to know the system and all its configurations.
Etercat sounds simple. Plug the LAN cable into the servo and it’s plug-and-play. If only it were that easy...
If you really want to go through with this, we’d be happy to help, of course.
Welcome to the world of jitter, EMC, XML errors, Hall errors, jumps, and dmesg error logs.
