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xlordofpainx wrote:

i get command not found on many of the commands from the text tutorial

Most of them are installed on our ISOs and IMGs on the downloads page. If you use another install method, you need to install them.

Maybe not ethercat as such but an lcec issue.
There are so many places this can go wrong, syntax mistakes.
Now I saw another thing. There is a name="D1" in the client line.
Then you should use lcec.0.D1 instead of lcec.0.0

Can you post your hal/ini files?

Might help with more eyes looking at them
 

I am trying to get my machine to run for the first time on a new PC here is my post: www.forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxc...inated-with-an-error

I can ping the mesa, I can run the motors during pnc conf, but I can't start the launch after that. Thanks in advance

Ethercat needs a master. Your linuxcnc computer can act as that master. Refer the forum stickies under the Ethercat section. The software is free.
EK1100 is not a master and it is not required unless you want to use backhoff modules attached to it.
Intel NICs are preferred as typically that have better performance but not mandatory.

You should also look at the Mesa cards as an alternative to Ethercat. The exact card will depend on your hardware choice.

This is not an Ethercat issue. Its your syntax error in hal
Use standard debugging.
Run Linuxcnc from the command line so errors are reported in the console.
Read the error message, Comment out the offending line (line 50) with a #
Continue to comment out errors until the config loads.
Use Halshow to review pin names. Work out what the correct pin name is and correct your hal file.
easy!
 

good to know.i currently am not using internet and mesa at the same time. but I am stuck on this error still on my other computer everything is the same besides the linux cnc is from 3 years ago and it works. :}

We need more info, pictures, video, smoke signals...

You can NOT have internet and Mesa on the same ethernet port.
Mesa should be wired directly to the PC, no switches or hubs or routers.
Add a USB WiFi or network card if you need internet.

X and Z operate in open loop .The encoder (X and Z ) is not connected to the PID controller.
I also have protection in the motor driver if it misses a step.
I also checked the spindle pid controller constants in the haw show .All constants entered.

What are you trying to make?

The LinuxCNC ISO needs no compiling of executables.

Notice the mouse pointer at the "set the subject for all replies", it has to be checked to change the topic tittle for the whole thread.
P.S.
Never mind the tabs...
And i will delete this post when Aciera gets to see it.
Thank you.

Hello! I’m having some issues with my CNC lathe that is operating on Linux 2.5. It’s a wood lathe with 6 axis wheels. Right now it’s not allowing me to ‘Home’ it. If there is somebody in this group that I can speak with I would appreciate the assistance. Thank you! 

Sorry for the late reply.

To do it all with G-code you would remove the carousel.comp from the system. It's not really helping if you define the changer as an axis.
(Note that you _could_ define the changer as an "extrajoint" if you really wanted to not have a spurious A axis appear in the GUI, but that's a topic for another day).

Your remapped toolchange routine has access to a set of built-in variables:http://linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/gcode/overview.html#gcode:predefined-named-parameters

Your routine could use #<_selected_pocket>

So, your toolchamge.ngc would be something like

There is no tool unload in this routine, so it won't work as-is. But is illustrates the idea. It's a lot like the rack-toolchanger example in the sim configs.

ethercat slaves indicates drives are in PREOP
halshow shows no pins

sudo dmesg output:
[3991690.001706] EtherCAT DEBUG 0: ec_master_send_datagrams(device_index = 0)
[3991690.001707] EtherCAT DEBUG 0: Adding datagram 0x0B
[3991690.001708] EtherCAT DEBUG 0: frame size: 46
[3991690.001709] EtherCAT DEBUG 0: Sending frame:
[3991690.001709] EtherCAT DEBUG: FF FF FF FF FF FF 2C 44 FD 25 D0 28 88 A4 0E 10
[3991690.001714] EtherCAT DEBUG: 04 0B 01 00 30 01 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[3991690.001719] EtherCAT DEBUG: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[3991690.001723] EtherCAT DEBUG: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[3991690.009637] EtherCAT DEBUG 0: Received frame:
[3991690.009639] EtherCAT DEBUG: FF FF FF FF FF FF 2E 44 FD 25 D0 28 88 A4 0E 10
[3991690.009645] EtherCAT DEBUG: 04 0B 01 00 30 01 02 40 00 00 02 00 01 00 00 00
[3991690.009650] EtherCAT DEBUG: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[3991690.009655] EtherCAT DEBUG: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[3991690.009663] EtherCAT DEBUG 0: ec_master_send_datagrams(device_index = 0)
[3991690.009664] EtherCAT DEBUG 0: Adding datagram 0x0C
[3991690.009665] EtherCAT DEBUG 0: frame size: 46
[3991690.009666] EtherCAT DEBUG 0: Sending frame:
[3991690.009666] EtherCAT DEBUG: FF FF FF FF FF FF 2C 44 FD 25 D0 28 88 A4 0E 10
[3991690.009671] EtherCAT DEBUG: 04 0C 02 00 30 01 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[3991690.009676] EtherCAT DEBUG: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[3991690.009681] EtherCAT DEBUG: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

The ethercat-conf.xml file came from the output of the command lcec_configgen


I replaced ethercat-conf.xml with your suggestions, and still get the same error

phil@SodickA:~/linuxcnc/configs/sim.axis$ linuxcnc lathe.ini
LINUXCNC - 2.9.3
Machine configuration directory is '/home/phil/linuxcnc/configs/sim.axis'
Machine configuration file is 'lathe.ini'
Starting LinuxCNC...
libnml/buffer/shmem.cc 320: Shared memory buffers toolCmd and toolCmd may conflict. (key=1004(0x3EC))
libnml/buffer/shmem.cc 320: Shared memory buffers toolSts and toolSts may conflict. (key=1005(0x3ED))
libnml/buffer/shmem.cc 320: Shared memory buffers emcError and emcError may conflict. (key=1003(0x3EB))
linuxcnc TPMOD=tpmod HOMEMOD=homemod EMCMOT=motmod
Note: Using POSIX realtime
Found file(REL): ./ethercat.hal
./ethercat.hal:50: Pin 'lcec.0.0.statusword' does not exist
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Note: Using POSIX realtime
LinuxCNC terminated with an error.  You can find more information in the log:
    /home/phil/linuxcnc_debug.txt
and
    /home/phil/linuxcnc_print.txt
as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the terminal