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SteepLearningCurve wrote:

Enable signal:
This signal is used for enabling/disabling the drive.
High level +5V (NPN control signal) for enabling the drive, and low level for disabling the drive.

PNP and Differential control signals are on the contrary, namely Low level for enabling.

By default it is left UNCONNECTED (ENABLED).

Contradicting info.
Not unusual on China stuff, at all.

I use FreeCAD- the "Path" workbench got renamed to (more appropriately) "CAM" a while back- when searching for information on it, you may see references to both. It's adequate, getting better all the time (use the weekly builds!). Lots of little things that are obnoxious, but I haven't found anything better for any reasonable-to-this-hobbyist cost if you're doing more mechanical designs than organic/artsy. Being parametric on the CAD side and having adaptive toolpaths on the CAM side are huge for me. Definitely a learning curve, sometimes you have to go about things in unintuitive ways for various reasons to get what you want.

Depends heavily on what you're doing as well. Blender + BlenderCAM might be a good choice if you can manage the learning curve and are doing more organic/less "dimensioned" stuff. FreeCAD doesn't handle that so well IME.

If you're doing 2D/engraving type stuff, Inkscape or others might be better.

You might also end up using multiple for different things.

langdons wrote:

The induction motor is a very, very old invention.

By Nikola Tesla.

You could use a mux component to set halui.jog-speed.
Mux2 for 2 speeds from one button or
Mux4 for up to 4 speed from two buttons

the documents will be updated to reflect the struggles of you and the other users this last week.

to the 2 other users who posted the quick guides for flashing and setup, i would like to use those in the remora docs, i hope this is ok

OK, progress! I put the #end-stops into my .hal file and BANG, I get a limit switch error reported in axis on pins 3, 5, and 7.

THANK YOU to all that have gotten me this far!! I now know that the remora flash took on the nvem and the hardware part is working.

Just the nightmare of figuring out the rest of the .hal file to get everything else working. But as for now, forward is a good direction to be heading.

the first part is what you add to the bottom of your hal file

the second part is a sample of the NVEM config.txt. the config.txt is what configures the remora hardware to the remora software. the hal file is what connects the remora software to the linuxcnc software. i included it to emphasize the relationship between which IO on the board does what in linuxcnc

The ini file is what configures your linuxcnc machine, so speeds of each axis, the travel, where the home switch is, how many axis/joints, the gui, etc

Just type the command "ethercat debug 1"
 

I can't even get QtDragon to work at all.

Good luck.

Today I rewired the carousel stepper driver to the MESA hardware stepgen nr4, which was a 5min job.
Consecutively, I spent 4 hours trying to get it running again.

The stepgen in velocity mode is controlled mainly by "velocity-cmd" which takes a float value.
Positive for CW and negative for CCW.
Main problem was setting the float value with the two digital outputs ( motion.digital-out-03 & motion.digital-out-04) that are triggered for CW and CCW carousel rotation. 

But in the end I solved it using MUX4: linuxcnc.org/docs/2.4/html/man/man9/mux4.9.html

# --- (Carousel CCW / REV) 
net ATC_Motor_CCW mux4.0.sel0 <= motion.digital-out-03
net ATC_Motor_CW mux4.0.sel1 <= motion.digital-out-04 

net ATC_Motor_DIR_VEL hm2_7i96s.0.stepgen.04.velocity-cmd mux4.0.out 

net ATC_Motor_CCW_SPD mux4.0.in1
sets ATC_Motor_CCW_SPD 5000

net ATC_Motor_CW_SPD mux4.0.in2
sets ATC_Motor_CW_SPD -5000 

net ATC_Motor_OFF_SPD mux4.0.in0
sets ATC_Motor_OFF_SPD 0 

net ATC_Motor_OFF2_SPD mux4.0.in3
sets ATC_Motor_OFF2_SPD 0  


#*******************# ATC Stepgen#******************* 

# Step Gen signals/setup
setp hm2_7i96s.0.stepgen.04.steplen 20000       # Step length (nanoseconds) 20 usec
setp hm2_7i96s.0.stepgen.04.stepspace 20000  # Step space (nanoseconds) 20 usec
setp hm2_7i96s.0.stepgen.04.maxaccel 50000    # Maximum acceleration (steps/second^2) so 1/10 second to full speed
setp hm2_7i96s.0.stepgen.04.maxvel 5000         # Maximum velocity (steps/second)
setp hm2_7i96s.0.stepgen.04.step_type 0           # Regular step type
setp hm2_7i96s.0.stepgen.04.dirsetup 50000      # Direction setup time (nanoseconds) 50 usec
setp hm2_7i96s.0.stepgen.04.dirhold 50000        # Direction hold time (nanoseconds) 00 usec
setp hm2_7i96s.0.stepgen.04.control-type 1        # Control type (1 for velocity control)
setp hm2_7i96s.0.stepgen.04.enable True            # Enable the step generator initially 


No more delayed response!!!
 

Do you have an idea how can i solve this issue?

Correct me if I am wrong, being all new to this, but that first bit of "code" you listed there looks to be from a .hal file and not an .ini file? If so then that gets me even further along and might be enough for me to get dangerous and take a stab at it.

who needs odrive when you can also use rio directly

www.youtube.com/shorts/L-D2a9atD_0

What do you mean with "SoE"?
Maybe i try to get a used Beckhoff AX5xx from eBay when thats easyer to use with LCNC.

... the SIEMENS etherCAT pcb is hard to get. it starts to annoying me...


endian post=327010 userid=29161
AX5xxx from beckhoff is SoE and it can be pain to create custom .xml which should be editable out of Sachas own .xml files...
 

SoE does mean - Sercos over Ethercat ... similar to CoE - CANopen over Ethercat ... You can imagine that ethercat itself is a empty lorry train were many different buses/networks shape members can sit a transport itself where they are need ..but very fast, synchro and with many many diagnostic stuff

I have never creating custom .xml file for them only for CoE stuff I have done it... I think if you are basic user it should be enough for you to use .xml config from saschas shop but ... it has many many very usefull stuff as monitoring the native I/Os ... external encoder - basically for external encoder as linear scales to run velocity loop over them ...

hmm i thought we had a full config somewhere with spindle. I guess its time to make one (aka copy flexihal). Ill try to mash out a regular config based on my setup