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Hello all,
Just out of curiosity has anyone been able to integrate Okuma drives and encoders with Linux CNC?I know that it is proprietary tech so you are not going to get much information Okuma, but was wondering if anyone has been able to crack it?Thanks

rodw wrote:

Some large commercial tables have a central exhaust duct down the side or up the centre and as the torch passes into a zone, a gate opens and the others close (usually by pneumatics) so the draft is centralised in that particular cutting zone. It is possible to track the torch position and activate the relevant zone with LinuxCNC. The dust is usually filtered and the exchaust ducted outside of the building. I did write a component that did this for another user which triggered a bank of air solenoids.

Rod, you catched me, thanks for this heads up. I have not even thought about that problem of exhaust gases and
pollution stuff. I was thinking to make a water based table under the torch, but this solves just partly this
problem of gases. We have a luck of being in a country where its hot the whole year so everything is open and ventilated, but that does not mean I dont need it.

I have a Riocore + ICEBreakerV1.0e + 26LS31 (pulse, dir) control board. I tested connecting it to an unmodified DM542 (dir / pc817), but it still cannot return to the zero position correctly.There shouldn't be any problem connecting this board to the motor driver using the 26C31 differential output. Adjusting the dirhold value had no effect.  I suspect it might be caused by a deviation in the dir/step during the forward and reverse rotation of the riocore.

 ICEBreakerV1.0e board
 

26C31 Differential Output Driver
 

FPGA
 
 

Can you give details on the procedure you are using to test the sim?
I can't see this behavior on my system but maybe I am doing it wrong.

Thanks

www.mesanet.com/parallelcardinfo.html
Second one, download and unzip then copy the missing file to where it is looking for it.

Thank you!

It's true its my biggest project so far and in the beginning it was tremendous and overwhelmingly big. But with time and money i got an overview of the whole machine and all the things that need to be done. In retrospect thats how it always was when i started a new project. First my 3/4 axis mill, then the lathe and now the big mill turn. I like a challenge and i'm not afraid of making mistakes. They are a good teacher.

I learned so much in therms of scraping/painting/adjusting/planing. Its quit a lot of fun.

But to be honest i would not be so motivated to do this project without the help i recieved from you. So thanks to you as well!

Also my girlfriend helped and supported me a lot with lots of understanding and also alot of physical help.

Suggestion for modified DH parameters as used in 'genserkins'
Note that your physical robot will need to have the same pose for J{0,1,2,3,4,5}=0  and the same joint rotation sense as in the DH model drawn below:

 

Well, congratulations!
Thanks for the update, looks like you are doing a proper job. That is quite a project you have taken on there.

 

 

hi all

used live cd to make a new install and update a old machine , it has a 5i20 card  in it. but on the new install there is no firmware installs in /lib/firmware

locate hm2 does not show any .bit files 

on startup you get
Debug file information:
Note: Using POSIX realtime
Could not locate firmware "//lib/firmware/hm2/5i20/SVST8_4.BIT". (No such file or directory)
hm2/hm2_5i20.0: firmware hm2/5i20/SVST8_4.BIT not found

the manual says
"search for hostmot2 in the Synaptic Package Manager."
but there is no such package any more

what is the correct fix or this? 

just copy old .bit files from old installs?


 

Good day,

So i would like to do a status update. I'm nearly finished with the geometry overhall.
Z Axis is complete
Y Axis is complete (But the Ballscrew is rough. Maybe it gets replaced later)
X Axis is in the process of scraping and aligning.
Sand blasted and painted a lot of parts
Cleaned the machine even more (but still a mess, just less



Spindel is still in progress.
The KM63 interface is fixed with new bearing and preload adjusted. But the clamping discs that clamp the spindle for turning/broaching is bend and needs to be reground. For now i will use it as it is to get the machine into alignment and if everything works with the original Maztrol i will start the conversion to LCNC and fix the rest of the spindle.

For now the progress wont be as fast as it used to be, because my son was born recently.