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My reply was that i use parallel port on several machines (over 10 for sure) with RTAI kernel, and use RT-Preempt on new-ish PC's for parallel port and Mesa boards.
In total, easily over 50 machines.
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I do have a PCI board that i have to spend some time with, got it from a friend so i have no clue where he got it, and another set of boards that was driving a 5 axis machine, from initial tests i did back then all are recognized by older kernels, but will probably need drivers and i am not in the mood of writing those.

Get rid of the relay boards, opto boards and the 5V rails, you do not need them and they will only add to stuff collecting interference, Mesa 7i96S has isolated inputs and outputs, just check what output to connect the torch on as there should be two types of outputs on it.
Put the Mesa board in the middle vertically with LAN side down, THCAD and power supplies to the right and drives as they are.

 On one of my builds I used a pass through ethernet port mounted on the panel to use a small ethernet cable to connect to my 7i76e. Its hard when you have limited access but I overcame the problem with a short ethernet cable inside the box.   

Lcvette wrote:

ok so blinking led is possible when active that functionality is already there. you can use signals and slots to connect widgets, not everything has to be done with rules, ie if you have a button you can run a signal and slot to an led to have it turn on and off, flash, stop in on state or stop in off state. perhaps this is what your looking for?

Not what I'm looking for, but the connection feature is interesting and I wasn't aware of it.

The LED was just a first stab at some sort of screen indicator.  After fiddling and thinking about it I realized a Qlabel can be better - an LED takes up more screen space because you also need a label for the LED.  Why not just make the label behave like the LED would?

To be specific, I have an air pressure sensor that interlocks the machine - can't start the machine without it.  Plenty of times I've tried to start the machine with the main air valve off ('cause leaks), couldn't start the machine and it took a minute to figure out the problem.

So I want an indicator that flashes red at me when the air sensor hal input is low, and I want it green when the hal pin is high.  If the label changes from AIR LOW to AIR OK, that's a bonus but unnecessary.

No screen button required or desired - just an indicator showing the two states of a hal pin.  I could have two labels or two leds, but that takes up room and looks hacky.

Unfortunately I have to keep the card and power on that side so I can get to Ethernet, on/off switch and estop. The way the table is set up I can only get to that side of the control box when in use.

Yes, here is the file. It might not be quite what you are looking for as we tried installing a little older version to try and get it going again, it acts almost the same with this version, now it stops when you hit pause, lifts up but nothing else. the FWD REV buttons come on momentarily then go away, it does not back up along cut path on its own but will not restart either, you have to hit stop and start all over. And once you have done that, the only way it will run a program is a program restart. If you run a program after fiddling with the pause it will only cut one pierce point, then raise the torch and sit until you hit stop, select the next point, run from line, etc etc. That was holes, I cant say whether or not it would do that on a nested drawing. 

Looks like its going to be a tidy control box. If it were my build I would put the 7I96S closer to the drives to shorten all the drive wiring, keep the THCAD2 and relays close to the 7I96S for the same reason.

Hello,
Now that I have EtherCAT working,
I noticed something regarding the `polygon.ngc` program: with 8 polygon points and a feed rate of 5000 mm/s,
the corner-rounding speed is 467 mm/s.
with a feed rate of 1000 mm/s, the corner-rounding speed is 172 mm/s.
As I understand it, with a feed rate of 1000 mm/s, the corner-rounding speed should also be 467 mm/s.
Is my assumption correct?
With 4 polygon points, the corner-rounding speed is the same.

Gruß
Rüdiger

trackwhack wrote:

Whatever you do, Fusion will cost you 1500 per year for a basic 4th axis. Takshak wont.

Depends how you define "basic". My paid-for Fusion costs me something like $400 a year and that includes indexed / wrapped 4th axis which allows me to do things like splines and gears. True simultaneous 4th axis requires the ruinously expensive manufacturing extension. That's always been a disappointment that rather limits the use of my 4th axis.

Don't get me wrong - I'm certainly interested in true simultaneous 4th axis. I was a beta tester on Onshape and started with Fusion when it was quite embryonic, so I'm used to waiting for features and bug fixes. There's only one way to discover how well developed and robust a product actually is but in this case I'd not even heard of it until a few days ago, so I've no way to get a feel for that.

I don't understand the 30 day business. If I don't pay the second $200 after 30 days, does it simply stop working - and my original $199 is automatically refunded? Or will I have paid $199 for 30 days of unsatisfied experience?

That looks like a 1V P-P sine output linear scale the needs an interpolator (EXE box or equivalent))

1. Buy the cable
2. Figure it out yourself using a multimeter
3. Send it back 

Oh, sorry. More of a hey, this is what I'm working on. Decided to leave linuxcnc alone, and build just a UI/Setup interface with some network admin stuffs.. still in it's infancy, but I'm slowly pecking away at it. Have Motion, and been narrowing in on probing and MDI functionality. once I get this all stable then I can go back and gut all the overwhelming useless buttons, and clean up the UI clutter in general.
Stubbing out some stuff for etherCat for future upgrades if I make it that far. lol

network.. i won't go down that rabbit hole, but, employer, son and his game server, staying in a motel, staying in place with network shady people... ? who knows..

here is an example:

  
This is my first time building something like this cnc plasma table so looking for opinions on what I can improve before wiring everything.
7I96S
THCAD2
24v 16Amp psu
5v 4 amp psu
dm556 drivers (x, y1, y2, z, a)
5v relays for arc and torch control
8 opto isolators for limit switches (2 x, 2 y1, 2 y2, z, z touch)
e stop
If you room for improvement please chime in and let me know before I attempt to not make a rats nest of wires. 

ok so blinking led is possible when active that functionality is already there. you can use signals and slots to connect widgets, not everything has to be done with rules, ie if you have a button you can run a signal and slot to an led to have it turn on and off, flash, stop in on state or stop in off state. perhaps this is what your looking for?