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Sorry but i can not help you with stuff i have no clue about, the bash is trying to run an executable file that i do not know what it contains, etc, etc.
I do admire your will to try and fix it and you being hell bent on learning new stuff, but at some point you have to cut the losses and move on.
Find another hard drive, cheap used one, install everything you need, and if this succeeds, then get rid of the old one. This way you still have a backup.

On your screenshot, it clearly states to do
sudo apt-get update
and try again
Although, this being a networking issue, i have to ask:
-how is the PC wired to internet?
-If wired through cable, did you revert back the network settings?

Hello tommylight! I know, you said this somewhere at the beginning of this thread. I must say, I did not know anything about the fickleness of this theme. I am (now as before) absolute newbie to Linux and Linuxcnc, I made my config with the wizard and afaik, I did not touch the /etc/network files at any time until someone in this thread told me to do this. I did not play around with settings but tried to consolidate the network with the help of the guys here. If I have done sth. wrong, I apologize.

Any help with my latest questions (bash) is welcome.

Cheers, Hanno

 

Thank you! Yes, I also use it as a control panel.
OK, no problem!

I think it could be done in multiple ways. I'm sure you should be able to find some configuration examples out there where people have set up Linuxcnc to control knee mills with both the quill and knee contributing to the Z axis position, this would be nearly identical.

It might be better to simply do it using X and U axis, where U would be the extra stage mounted on the X. This set up would give you better control over when and how each axis is used. Alternatively you could simply use a Kinematics model were X is the sum of the two X axis joints, but this might give you less control over when or how each joint contributed to the position and movement of X.

It may even be possible to configure it using a custom Kinematics where the X-axis = joint0 + joint3 and the U-axis = joint3. Allowing you to use U commands to control the extra stage's position, but still have it automatically contribute to the final X position.

(I have never actually tried any of this myself.)

All that said, is this really a good idea? Adding a lot of cantilevered forces and movement beyond the machine's designed structure could have less than desirable results (such as magnifying/multiplying tolerance errors and greatly reduced rigidity.)

Since the 7I73 was designed for control panels and not direct machine control
it does not automatically disable outputs on a fault. I suppose that feature could
be added but it might make more sense to use a 7I84/7I84U in that case.

Hello winyk. I've read your post, and there are few things i wanna mention.

I've developed custom kinematics module for my machine a while ago. Since you are starter, i suggest you to learn HAL layer of LinuxCNC first.
HAL layer is nothing but modules that run at background in while loop, with some sleep. Don't consider this layer as a software layer, it is actually a system that gives you ability to configure your modules, make them able to communicate with each other and allows you to collaborate across modules. In while loop, they checks some conditions, some values etc. and do the work. These modules are named as 'hal component'.

At the core of LinuxCNC, there is a motion hal component. You can check it in the documentation given below:

--> linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/motion.9.html

This hal component is responsible for interpreting G-code commands and converting them into real-time control signals for machine's hardware. When you give "G90 G0 X10" command,
this is the component which gets 10 value near X and convert it to control signals for motor controller. This conversion uses your kinematics module. Your kinematics module is also a hal component, and the starter script loads it at the beginning. If you check your hal file, you are gonna see some lines like below:


...
...
...
loadrt trivkins
...
...
loadrt motmod servo_period_nsec=<value_from_your_ini_file> num_joints=<value_from_your_ini_file> tp=tp kins=<value_from_your_ini_file>

If you know what ini file format is, these lines gonna look like below.

...
...
...
loadrt trivkins
...
...
loadrt [EMCMOT]EMCMOT servo_period_nsec=[EMCMOT]SERVO_PERIOD num_joints=[TRAJ]AXES tp=tp kins=[KINEMATICS]KINEMATICS


Since you are giving the file name of your kinematics module in your .ini file like below:
[KINEMATICS]
KINEMATICS=mykins

The motmod hal component uses your kinematics component to make the calculations.

After you run "halcompile --install mykins.comp" command, the halcompile exe does these steps given below:

1. Convert .comp file to appropriate .c file
2. Compile generated .c file with system's compiler, generate a shared library (.so file)
3. Locate that .so file in /usr/lib/linuxcnc/rt-preempt/ directory.

Since you are new in C programming, you need to learn basic flow of compilation of a .c source file. You need to check what is .so file, how it can be used etc. to understand concept. The key thing you need to know is, you are generating a calculation module which exports some symbols with names as 'kinematicsInverse, kinematicsForward, .. etc.', you are locating it in the system's directory. After that, during the start of LinuxCNC, it loads motion hal component with that hal component. So the conversion and calculation of machine movement is being calculated by your code. There are so many things you need to know, but this is a basic flow.

If you wanna change the direction of your X axis, you need to change kinematicsInverse function only. The j variable is responsible for generating physical coordinates. You are getting commanded value from const EmcPose * pos variable, which is your commanded coordinate of machine, and forwarding it to physical value. This is the point that you give 10 and make it -10. So, don't change both of them to negative, change only 'kinematicsInverse' to negative. If you do this, hopefully you are gonna see your "G90 G0 X10" command is resulted as X=-10. If i am wrong, maybe i need to remember some things.

I developed some kinematics module to fix geometrical errors of my machine(squareness, straightness) a while ago. I was adding extra moves to X,Y,Z axises according to each other to neutralize the physical oscillation that one makes along any axis. There are different topics that you can use this kinematics module, but this is the core flow. If you have any other questions, i would be happy to discuss them.


Don't forget, if you are trying to change kinematics module, you need to change your ini file. Check the given link below:

--> linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/ini-config.html#sub:ini:sec:kins

If you don't change your ini file, your hal component can't be loaded. I assume the reason that you didn't get the right result is giving negative value in both reverse and forward functions, but i can be wrong, so don't forget to check your ini and hal files.

For the 2nd option. To display an image instead of Hal_LED's small colored circle or box, the simple answer is you can't. You must use a different widget to do this. You could use a GtkImage widget to display your images for spindle ON and OFF, then use your Python handler file to define what images are displayed and create the nessisary hal pin to select between them.

I've done something similar to this, but more complicated for the spindles on a machine I've set up. On that machine I have multiple spindles controled by Modbus, and I set up a series of GTK Images to display the status of each of them. It uses S32 hal pins to display one of about a dozen different images for each VFD, such as "Com Error", "Run", "Stop", "Accel", "Decel". "Fault"...

You should ask that in the "driver boards" section of the forum as i am not sure PCW monitors this side of the forum, well i am sure he does sometimes, but not sure if always.

Update: 
I was finally able to go around the issue I was facing. Since the halmeter was showing up blank, one can go into the terminal and type :

halrun
loadusr -W hal_input -KRAL Gamepad ((( Gamepad is the unique code that my controller has, others might be different )))
loadusr halmeter

The halmeter shows up and gives the input pin status.

If all you want is an LED indicator, then yes, simply, connecting the hal pin "spindle.0.on" to your your Glade Hal_Led's hal input pin in a post gui hal file would be all you would need to do.

If you are asking how to make the Hal_LED display a large red image that says "Spindle OFF", that is slightly more complicated.

Flex has added a FSC.
 
JT

I have a 7i73 for the control panel. Interesting when it lost communication with the board 7i98. Always the output pins remain at the levels they were before it lost connection with the host.. Is this normal? Or there is a specific setting in Hal .
It's not critical, but I think it's not normal.

What you see in the preview is current WorkCoordinateSystem (ie 'axes' XYZ) and the Gcode path. The Gcode preview is NOT a machine simulation (ie it does not show the 'joint' movement). All it does is give the operator a preview of the GCode presuming trivial kinematics. A standard coordinate system is cartesian and right handed. If you mirror the direction of the y axis in your kinematic then your machine will work in a _left_ handed cartesian coordinate system.

On a machine with trivial kinematics there is not much difference between joint/axis movement because the machine is already setup so the tool moves in a cartesian system. On non-trivial machines a move in a single axis direction (eg X) might involve more than one joint (on a 6DOF robot it may involve all 6 rotary joints to move along a single linear axis)

In your case if you reverse the Z axis then your machine joint[2] would need to move upwards and thus beyond it's positive limit hence you get an error