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This is a great idea.

(I'm not in a position to test it any time soon sorry).

My guess is calling it something like VisualHAL might be more intuitive?

I tried the plasma part a bit. Nesting and placing works very well,
really nice. Also made a quick post processor for PlasmaC.
Pretty rudimentary, remove feeds and Z movements and add a few lines in the header.
I'm not going to be part of the development of this software, just wanted to give a quick
micro-review after spending maybe an hour in it. It's nice, modern look, interactive
and I got going without instructions. 
I can see myself using it occasionally, for nesting/placing many parts.

tommylight wrote:

@RodW,
50 minute video for a 3 minute setup, really?
Here is everything in one place and does not take 50 minutes:
forum.linuxcnc.org/27-driver-boards/3559...ethernet-mesa-boards

If you had of followed the link It would have taken you to the exact spot about 16 minutes in where I discuss the networking in that 50 minutes. Its a very old video now but still current.

@RodW,
50 minute video for a 3 minute setup, really?
Here is everything in one place and does not take 50 minutes:
forum.linuxcnc.org/27-driver-boards/3559...ethernet-mesa-boards

Looks very nice, good job, keep it up

the 7i77 needs 5v power supply as well, I think

We are not out of the woods yet. When I pushed this back to my GitHub, it failed some of the gcode tests. 
github.com/rodw-au/linuxcnc/actions

I kind of know what's going on. I just need time to get to make some changes. Just need to add stuff to reset functions.
 

This link into one of my videos explains it, Simple networking setup. Its not plug and play

rhscdn wrote:

Looks fantastic. Its great seeing more UI options beyond Qt. Just curious, is the display optimized for touch or keyboard input?

Being more of a C/C++ person, I’ve been building a similar pet project focused on a C++ interface layer for LinuxCNC. The idea was to wrap both the NML and HAL polling sides in a clean, multi-client-safe bridge so the same core can support a WebSocket interface for remote clients and a Node.js addon for local UIs. The main goal is to decouple machine access from the frontend layer, making it possible to run multiple displays and control interfaces against a single machine. It's proving to be about as much work as I anticipated

Don't stop this project.

One of my subscribers is having an issue. Unfortunately, I have not yet tried using the LAN-style MESA card, so I am unsure how to help him.

Jere is the message I got:

"Hi Jerry,I have a Mesa 7i92 card that is plugged into the Ethernet on my computer.  It is also connected to a 7i77 daughter card, and I have a 5v power supply going into the 7i92."

Do any of you have some tips that might be helpful?
Thanks,
Jerry
 

"Great work, Rod! This looks like a monumental step forward for LinuxCNC.

I believe this branch is the perfect strategy for implementation. It elegantly solves the real-time synchronization issues that have hindered advanced tangential control in the past.

For my part, I have an assignment to study this implementation . You have indeed laid a cornerstone for the system, and I am very excited to leverage your work for this project.

If I may add my opinion: I fully support your point of view regarding the modifications of G_1, G_2, G_3 equates in control.c. I understand the devs' concerns about real-time sanctity, but your approach to code readability (housekeeping) is crucial for the long-term maintainability of such complex code. Finding that balance is the key.

Thank you again for your incredible contribution."

Hallo Peter, T3D drivers exist with encoder output also. I have them in one machine, but I have used them in STEP/DIR mode with Mesa, without encoder feedback. Works fine, but I still hope that analog control from LinuxCNC and Mesa is better. Is it right or not? I also have other machine with Simodrive, there is +-10V control, attached to 7I33 - works perfect many years. But T3D has analog control 0-10V Do you know how does this work? Is it possible to control it with analog servo Mesa cards? I am planning to upgrade next CNC milling machine and looking for motors. I would like to use T3D, but milling machine I do not want to run without encoders feedback...

Looks fantastic. Its great seeing more UI options beyond Qt. Just curious, is the display optimized for touch or keyboard input?

Being more of a C/C++ person, I’ve been building a similar pet project focused on a C++ interface layer for LinuxCNC. The idea was to wrap both the NML and HAL polling sides in a clean, multi-client-safe bridge so the same core can support a WebSocket interface for remote clients and a Node.js addon for local UIs. The main goal is to decouple machine access from the frontend layer, making it possible to run multiple displays and control interfaces against a single machine. It's proving to be about as much work as I anticipated

This was originally supposed to be just a tough shape to pocket, it looks like it could be used for making a saw blade too.  The algorithm used to develop the perimeter would be prone to accumulate minor errors into major blunders since it accumulates multiple executions for sine and cosine functions to add up to a complete closed polygon.  The verbosity setting prints out the value that is computed by the program to be the "last side".  This one had a last side that was .065" bigger than the other 19 teeth.  repetitive editing of the apex angle of the 19 teeth eventually resulted in a "last tooth" that was .0015" too small. Verbosity set to 3 dimensioned a bounding box where width was .00065"  less than height so the shape is reasonably round, I did draw a circle around the tooth tips and couldn't see any big (or small) ones  so when I decide to mill this at least the database will be more accurate than my mill.  
I added the circular area inside the part since I had left it unfinished on my previous post, the screen shows the circular path but doesn't show the boundary circle I used to eyeball "roundness", nor does it show the center mounting hole which took a pile of g-code to finish.
the program is still g-code in its entirety, and its gotten pretty Hackey lately. 

It should be noted that Riocore can generate the gateware for the FPGA, as well as the complete LinuxCNC configuration (hal/ini/vcp).
In future, however, it will also be possible to build your own boards from this;
to this end, a KiCad template is generated, which can be turned into a complete board with relatively little effort.



already in dev branch, but still need some work:
* verify the kicad modules
* add more kicad modules
* some fixes while update the pcb