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Some people are lucky and got a lifetime license.

Others are not so lucky.

Though Autodesk's lawyers are currently searching for loopholes they can use to make you pay for a subscription.

Wait, does the OP mean a dual-boot or LinuxCNC on Ubuntu?

Was the scrap yard AIM (American Iron and Metal)?

AIM is a Canadian company.

Scrap yard usually resell working machinery as machnery to make extra money (and help the environment).

BTW, thanks for helping!

I have limit switches on the Z-Axis, lower and upper. I

1. Jog positive and trigger the upper limit switch
2. Jog negative off the limit
3. "Zero" via the UI the Z-Axis
4. The W54 Z-position will "reset" to a non-zero number
5. The absolute machine position does not change
6. repeat 1-4
7. The "zeroed" W54 position will increase by around .300 with each jog cycle.
8. The absolute position remains the same for the Z-position I am zeroing.

 

At the moment, rotorhoming starts when i power on the machine.
The problem is that i want to home the z-axis first.

Howdy all,
     I am working out the high level architecture (and ordering) for a Ethercat retrofit of my CNC Mill ( its VFD is dying and its as good an excuse as any to re work may decisions I made on it when I converted it to LinuxCNC the first time).. 

Anyways, I am looking at the MPG and realizing that I have open IO pins on my pi (like all of them).

So here is my current "plan" for I/O which I would love feedback on 

1x EK1100 - Ethercat to FieldBus coupler
2x EL1819  - 16 inputs (I need 28 so 2 it is) - (the response time is killer vs the EL1809)
1x EL2819 - 16 output (need 11 so that works)
1x EL5151 - Encoder for the MPG  <-- this is where I would love feedback because this guy is $250 used

The really open question is what risks on integration and general PITA am I facing if I use my Pi's IO pins to handle MPG encoder rather than the spendy EL5151. 

I plan to use either Leadshine or Innovance mult-turn servos for all of my motors and spindle so my only current known need for an encoder is the MPG...  This is less a question of "can I mix Ethercat with Pi IO pins" and more a question of "should I"... Am I setting myself up for sparks and pain getting the realtime thread where the Pi IO will come in syncing with the rest of the system that is all running on the Server Thread? 

To that end, should I be using other parts of the Pi's IO for emergency stuff like e-stop? 

Thanks in advance. 

You were right: The servo had a slave id o as well as the ek1100. I fixed that. The error msg seems to stay the same.

wopass: load_the_modules cmd=<orig_loadrt lcec>
waitpid failed /usr/bin/rtapi_app lcec
/usr/bin/rtapi_app exited without becoming ready
insmod for lcec failed, returned -1

Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments

Debug file information:
Note: Using POSIX realtime
LinuxCNC Ethercat crashed with signal 11
-- STACK TRACE START
0 /usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/lcec.so(+0xfc8c) [0x7f3c65f33c8c]
1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3c050) [0x7f3c66e4d050]
2 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libethercat.so.1(ecrt_slave_config_pdos+0x2f) [0x7f3c65ef752f]
3 /usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/lcec.so(rtapi_app_main+0x40a) [0x7f3c65f34f38]
4 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(+0x10cd7) [0x5595ad189cd7]
5 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(+0x1162e) [0x5595ad18a62e]
6 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(+0x11c2c) [0x5595ad18ac2c]
7 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(+0xc974) [0x5595ad185974]
8 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(main+0x70f) [0x5595ad18544f]
9 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x2724a) [0x7f3c66e3824a]
10 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x85) [0x7f3c66e38305]
11 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(_start+0x21) [0x5595ad185861]
-- STACK TRACE END
Waiting for component 'cia402' to become ready.Waited 3 seconds for master. giving up.
Note: Using POSIX realtime

5660
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components
Note: Using POSIX realtime
lcec: not loaded
<commandline>:0: exit value: 255
<commandline>:0: rmmod failed, returned -1
Note: Using POSIX realtime
motmod: not loaded
<commandline>:0: exit value: 255
<commandline>:0: rmmod failed, returned -1
Note: Using POSIX realtime
trivkins: not loaded
<commandline>:0: exit value: 255
<commandline>:0: rmmod failed, returned -1
Note: Using POSIX realtime
homemod: not loaded
<commandline>:0: exit value: 255
<commandline>:0: rmmod failed, returned -1
Note: Using POSIX realtime
tpmod: not loaded
<commandline>:0: exit value: 255
<commandline>:0: rmmod failed, returned -1
<commandline>:0: unloadrt failed
Note: Using POSIX realtime

This is what dmesg shows:

[ 4.277444] ec_master: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 4.277719] ec_master: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 4.314529] EtherCAT: Master driver 1.6.4 1.6.4.g703b611-1+17.2
[ 4.314659] EtherCAT: 1 master waiting for devices.
[ 4.337595] ec_generic: EtherCAT master generic Ethernet device module 1.6.4 1.6.4.g703b611-1+17.2
[ 4.337610] EtherCAT: Accepting A0:36:9F:47:90:13 as main device for master 0.
[ 4.337624] ec_generic: Binding socket to interface 2 (enp2s0).
[ 4.360462] EtherCAT 0: Starting EtherCAT-IDLE thread.
[ 4.510128] NET: Registered PF_QIPCRTR protocol family
[ 6.785160] igb 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: igb: enp2s0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX
[ 6.785464] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp2s0: link becomes ready
[ 6.792420] EtherCAT 0: Link state of ecm0 changed to UP.
[ 6.804450] EtherCAT 0: 8 slave(s) responding on main device. Re-scanning on next possibility.
[ 6.804453] EtherCAT 0: Slave states on main device: PREOP.
[ 6.804454] EtherCAT 0: Re-scanning now.
[ 6.804968] EtherCAT 0: Scanning bus.
[ 7.713258] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 enp0s31f6: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: Rx/Tx
[ 7.713306] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp0s31f6: link becomes ready
[ 8.683950] EtherCAT 0: Bus scanning completed in 1876 ms.
[ 8.683953] EtherCAT 0: Using slave 0 as DC reference clock.
[ 192.576441] EtherCAT: Requesting master 0...
[ 192.576444] EtherCAT: Successfully requested master 0.
[ 192.576962] EtherCAT 0: Domain0: Logical address 0x00000000, 4 byte, expected working counter 6.
[ 192.576964] EtherCAT 0: Datagram domain0-0-main: Logical offset 0x00000000, 4 byte, type LRW.
[ 192.576972] EtherCAT 0: Master thread exited.
[ 192.576973] EtherCAT 0: Starting EtherCAT-OP thread.
[ 192.972388] EtherCAT 0: Slave states on main device: PREOP, OP.
[ 219.612558] EtherCAT 0: Master thread exited.
[ 219.612573] EtherCAT 0: Starting EtherCAT-IDLE thread.
[ 219.612597] EtherCAT ERROR 0-5: Failed to receive AL state datagram: Datagram initialized.
[ 219.612606] EtherCAT 0: Releasing master...
[ 219.612607] EtherCAT 0: Released.
[ 219.700744] EtherCAT 0: Slave states on main device: PREOP.
[ 219.788706] EtherCAT WARNING: Datagram 00000000c1702745 (master-fsm) was SKIPPED 1 time.
[ 1676.699770] EtherCAT: Requesting master 0...
[ 1676.699773] EtherCAT: Successfully requested master 0.
[ 1676.705131] EtherCAT 0: Releasing master...
[ 1676.705134] EtherCAT 0: Released.
[ 2530.014495] EtherCAT: Requesting master 0...
[ 2530.014498] EtherCAT: Successfully requested master 0.

I can`t really understand what`s going wrong

Can you give a bit more detail about your system, and what problem you are trying to solve, and how this will achieve that?
By "planner" I assume you mean the trajectory planner?

I am now even more confused about what's going on.
Are you actually hitting the limit switch? Or do you mean that you jog to the top soft-limit, zero the coordinate system, and then jog away again this inexplicable offset appears?

Do you have anything like external offsets enabled? Any unusual kinematics?

if you want to try i added dedicated hal pin to the spindle encoder index, you can connect it to any input pin, and you can define in the config.h and also set the active level of the signal to active low or active high.

If the original manufacturer thought that is was important enough not to require homing to go to the trouble of fitting potentimeters I would be inclined to follow their lead.
I don't think it's a difficult thing to integrate.

I see you have two slaves with idx="0", that won't work.
List the indexes with "ethercat slaves"

There is another debug option or possibility. The output of "sudo dmesg" show a lot, at the end it may have info that can show the error.
Especially info messages from ethercat master and lcec goes there.

Good morning, I want to update my Qtplasma and would like to know if there is a step-by-step guide for doing so. Thank you.

QtPlasmaC updates - master (submitted by phillc54):

• start conversational shapes at origin
• uppercase conversational gcode
• make documentation and example g-code file references to adaptive feed consistant
• conversational block refactor
  • Allows run from line in conversational blocks.
  • All conversational work is in native machine units.
  • Adds interlocking for conversational shape buttons.
  • Renames column and row offset to spacing.
  • Sets default distance for column and row spacing.
  • Existing conversational shape files will be automatically upgraded when loaded.

You`re right. When I realized that it is a special customized Version I started everything all over again to go with the simplest version. I did what you proposed and compiled the cia402_homecomp. Than I mixed my working Beckhoff starting point files with the ones from dbraun. Unfortunately it still crashes:

wopass: load_the_modules cmd=<orig_loadrt lcec>
waitpid failed /usr/bin/rtapi_app lcec
/usr/bin/rtapi_app exited without becoming ready
insmod for lcec failed, returned -1

Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules
Removing NML shared memory segments

Debug file information:
Note: Using POSIX realtime
motion.c: Creating unlock hal pins for joint 4
LinuxCNC Ethercat crashed with signal 11
-- STACK TRACE START
0 /usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/lcec.so(+0xfc8c) [0x7fc1af3e9c8c]
1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3c050) [0x7fc1b0303050]
2 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libethercat.so.1(ecrt_slave_config_pdos+0x2f) [0x7fc1af3ad52f]
3 /usr/lib/linuxcnc/modules/lcec.so(rtapi_app_main+0x40a) [0x7fc1af3eaf38]
4 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(+0x10cd7) [0x56167d468cd7]
5 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(+0x1162e) [0x56167d46962e]
6 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(+0x11c2c) [0x56167d469c2c]
7 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(+0xc974) [0x56167d464974]
8 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(main+0x70f) [0x56167d46444f]
9 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x2724a) [0x7fc1b02ee24a]
10 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x85) [0x7fc1b02ee305]
11 /usr/bin/rtapi_app(_start+0x21) [0x56167d464861]
-- STACK TRACE END
Waiting for component 'cia402' to become ready.....Waited 3 seconds for master. giving up.
.Note: Using POSIX realtime

2971
Stopping realtime threads
Unloading hal components
Note: Using POSIX realtime
lcec: not loaded
<commandline>:0: exit value: 255
<commandline>:0: rmmod failed, returned -1
Note: Using POSIX realtime
motmod: not loaded
<commandline>:0: exit value: 255
<commandline>:0: rmmod failed, returned -1
Note: Using POSIX realtime
trivkins: not loaded
<commandline>:0: exit value: 255
<commandline>:0: rmmod failed, returned -1
Note: Using POSIX realtime
homemod: not loaded
<commandline>:0: exit value: 255
<commandline>:0: rmmod failed, returned -1
Note: Using POSIX realtime
tpmod: not loaded
<commandline>:0: exit value: 255
<commandline>:0: rmmod failed, returned -1
<commandline>:0: unloadrt failed
Note: Using POSIX realtime

Do you have any Idea what to try next?