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Yes its a catchall that should be at the end.
I think I added warning and critical after the others and didn't think of the logic.
Good eye gents!

I know that your configs-components are not finished yet. I don't plan to use them as is just for ideas..Mine machine is very similar to yours.
I missed that heidenhain scales have index pulse.. Where this pulse is located at the start of scale where exactly? This is very good for accurate homing because now for homing i use regular switches that are not so accurate.
Mine machine has 2 identical spindles with gearbox that has 2 speeds and i want to put encoder for rigid tapping. Also lulbrication system is as your.
Mine has also 2 hydraulic cylinders for counterweight of knee table.

If it get's real bad I'd be happy to have a look if you can travel to Sydney.

Again, make a new XYZA config, save, edit the hal file, ONLY add extra pins for the Y axis.
Save.
Test.

Thank you for your response.

What version are you currently using? I'd like to try it out.I'm currently using ethercat-master (1.6.3.g805e407-1+15.3)

Damn it, it just occurred to me i have forgotten another "internet hippie dumb f@kery", this:
See if you can actually find what CAN bus stands for ...
And before you come back here all happy, it is wrong!
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Went as bit through this, "Unknown" raised a point of Billion with 9 and 12 zeros, missed that, we had it 12 zeros all eternity, but i recall vividly some 6 years back arguing with an older friend who insisted we had 9 always, despite 4 people telling him we had 12. He also insists he knows electronics, yet he always wires optocouplers to the ground, both the diode and the transistor!!!

Congratulations on your results so far.

I have never tryied LinuxCNC in Raspberry Pi. But, based on my experience in PC based LCNC, I don't think you will ever have any reliability issues running it in step/dir. LinuxCNC is a hell of a reliable motion controller.

 

No worries, glad you got it sorted

BX-CNC wrote:

I’m at this stage noticing that I can’t change the velocity of y-axis (the one I’m testing). I think it might be the motor driver setting up problem.

I have never seen anything like this. Have you tried to type a value? I don't use stepconf wizard very often.

You can always finish stepconf configuration and edit the .ini file.

But I can tell the motor driver config has no influence on this (if you mean the switches configuration).

No idea, but i am i sure i had 330, 470 and 680 Ohm ones at the time i built it probably over 10 years ago.

BX-CNC wrote:

Hi,
I get a PC with build-in parallel port. But i ran the parallel port tester and still got no response.

I can now toggle the machine power in linuxCNC. When I toggle it on, the machine can move when i toggle the machine power off it locks. But still no movement yet.
 

You have to flip the enable pin state.

You may run stepconf wizard once more and invert Amplifier Enable pin or you could edit it directly in you hal file.

What do you mean by no response? Have you tested inputs and outputs? Is everything powered up? You have to plug the USB cable to power the computer side in your bob and also 12-24 volts to power the machine side.

Try running parallel port tester and try to toggle pin 17 to see if built in relay will make any sound.

The option of connecting between PC and machine sounds interesting.

What resistor size have you used?

I’m trying to get my machine to home according to the position of the absolute encoders I have. I did the regular set up with ”HOME_ABSOLUTE_ENCODER = 2”. When I turn off the machine at let’s say z=10 and then turn it back on the machine remembers that z is 10. But when I then turn on my servos the encoders which also of course says z is 10 since it is the absolute position. The machine then thinks the machine has moved 10 and therefore z is now 20 on the screen. Is there a way to make the machine start at 0. I can upload the files tomorrow if I don’t find a fix. Regards Philip

I made a few minutes to take a look at this tonight.  

I do see the behavior you describe, although the order is not the root cause. 

In this line:  github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/bd9034...ialog_widget.py#L201



it's this part that is causing issue:



The icon value is set correctly to 'WARNING' on the go-in, but because but because icon is of type str, the second condition "isinstance(icon, str)" evaluates to True, and therefore never gets to check for 'WARNING'.

Perhaps it’s meant to be a catch all, in that case I agree it should move to last, but I want Chris to weigh in before I change it as I'm not quite sure of the purpose (if typo should we tell the user there’s a typo?).

Yes, I am using (I used) Virtual Box as VM for test.

Is the NativeCAM path correct in the ini file?
(you could post your ini file)
Is NativeCAM runnig standalone from the command line?

As suggested by HansU, you could try to run LinuxCNC from the command line to see the errors during startup.