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Aciera wrote:

I'm with you, like most of us probably. People like that come and go.

My advice would be:
1. Don't get your blood pressure up, it's not worth it.
2. Only clarify wrong statements that are relevant to the question at hand.
3. Ignore the rest of the babble.

+1

Thanks for your help, that was the problem

Qtdragon changes displayed units based on g20/21 modes

Hi everyone,
I bought this device: SG-ELC-ADIO-DI16-DO16-PNP.
I wrote a custom XML file for it, but for some reason, after I load it, there's a 90% chance that EtherCAT crashes with an error.
I suspect that it might be slowing down the entire system, or maybe I wrote the XML incorrectly.Here’s what I wrote:
 <slave idx="4" type="generic" vid="EE000002" pid="00010205" configPdos="true" >
            <dcConf assignActivate="0000" sync0Cycle="0" sync0Shift="0"/>
        
            <syncManager idx="0" dir="out">
                <pdo idx="1a00">
                    <pdoEntry idx="3101" subIdx="1" bitLen="8" halType="complex">
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-00" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-01" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-02" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-03" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-04" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-05" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-06" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-07" halType="bit"/>
                    </pdoEntry>
                </pdo>
                <pdo idx="1a01">
                    <pdoEntry idx="3101" subIdx="2" bitLen="8" halType="complex">
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-08" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-09" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-10" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-11" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-12" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-13" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-14" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="out-15" halType="bit"/>
                    </pdoEntry>
                </pdo>
            </syncManager>
        
            <syncManager idx="2" dir="in">
                <pdo idx="1600">
                    <pdoEntry idx="3001" subIdx="1" bitLen="8" halType="complex">
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-00" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-01" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-02" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-03" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-04" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-05" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-06" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-07" halType="bit"/>
                    </pdoEntry>
                </pdo>
                <pdo idx="1601">
                    <pdoEntry idx="3001" subIdx="2" bitLen="8" halType="complex">
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-08" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-09" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-10" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-11" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-12" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-13" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-14" halType="bit"/>
                        <complexEntry bitLen="1" halPin="in-15" halType="bit"/>
                    </pdoEntry>
                </pdo>
            </syncManager>
        </slave>

And I’m also attaching the original XML file.

as per manual there is only one variable receive and one variable transmit PDO : 0x1600 and 0x1A00.
Each is limited to 10 entries.
You should see some error messages in /var/log/messages.
If you need more than 10 entries, you can use SDO instead of the 0x1600 PDO.
SDOs can be queried/set with "ethercat upload" or "ethercat download".
SDOs are permanently saved to the servo controller, so this is useful for nonchanging config parameters only.

github.com/zmrdko/3DWorks_EasyCAT/blob/main/3DWorks_EasyCAT.ino

you can find some examples of IO, which I tried.

Hi,

i try to get qtdragon_hd in metric mode.
in my .ini file i have: 
[TRAJ]
LINEAR_UNITS = metric

Debug output has the line
QTvcp.QTVCP.QT_ISTAT - DEBUG - Machine is METRIC based. unit Conversion constant=0.03937007874015748

Some of the menus have mm as units. 
However the main screen shows Units = IN. 

What is wrong with my config?
The qtdragon_hd sample configs with metric seem to work fine.

Finally all my Motors are joggable. The key was this part of the hal-file where I had to add some entries:
addf lcec.read-all servo-thread
addf cia402.0.read-all servo-thread
addf cia402.1.read-all servo-thread
addf motion-command-handler servo-thread
addf motion-controller servo-thread
addf cia402.0.write-all servo-thread
addf cia402.1.write-all servo-thread
addf lcec.write-all servo-thread

The amp-error still pops up from time to time but this is something wich could be caused of the not yet tuned motors I think.
Thx a lot (!!!!) for all you help and hints!!

Hello,

today I stumbled across this error and I might be able to provide a useful hint.

I am using Probe Basic 2.9.3 and if I have NO_FORCE_HOMING = 1 in my ini, it remembers the tool.
If I have NO_FORCE_HOMING = 0 in my ini, it won't remeber it.

I guess it sets the tool in the background with some MDI command and it can't execute this command, if it is not allowed to execute a MDI command because it is not homed.

I added #5400 in my .var and with every toolchange it changed that value to the toolnumber.
Whenever I started PB with NO_FORCE_HOMING = 0, it changed the value of #5400 to 0 right after PB started.

I don't mind using NO_FORCE_HOMING = 1 but that causes Issues with the "REF-ALL / HOMED" Button in the Probe Basic UI because that one uses the "status:all_axes_homed" from the QTDesigner and this status only works with NO_FORCE_HOMING = 0...

If someone knows any workaroud, let me know

If that function works for you and your setup can handle the calculated angles then I don't see a problem there.
I would stick with the fanuc format since it uses ijk words which are already handled in linuxcnc. The A3/B3/C3 words of the siemens style would first have to be built into the interpreter.