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jimmyrig wrote:

Stepper online drivers have a 24v and a 5v logic switch at the top. It needs to be 5v for the mesa
 

I don't know what you mean, I'm using DM556T and I only know about the DIP switches to set microsteps and peak current.

PCW wrote:

DIR0+ would be TB1 pin 5 for example
 

Sorry for my stupid question, I thought I should check it in the software and didn't find the pin in the list.
Anyway I checked the voltage of the pin, and it does change polarity when moving in opposite directions.

The motors are connected bipolar/parallel. It was kind of a mess to find out which cable is A+,A- and so on (the guy who built the machine prolonged cables with with cables of different colors)
Maybe I made a mistake there, but I checked it several times.

The issue isn't that Linux has some technical superiority, it's that we have silo's if interest from oublic and private sector actors colluding to control our screens, it exists in Android, Firefox, Windows etc, all the same thing. Even the open source guys with their "no bi ary blobs" and excluding closed source qpps from repos are doing the same thing.

One thing I've observed about software developers, many of them are controlling narcissists. When you think about computer programming from a 10,000ft view, it certainly would look appealing to people with average intelligence who have strong verbal iq and Machiavellian tendency's to picn computer program as a trade because they would be scratch that itch for tyrannical control. 

You can see it with open source projects ejecting contributors and community participants anytime they question or speak against the opinions of the core operations group. 

It would be nice if their was a way to find those people and box them up so that couldn't harm everyone but they're everywhere in the software engineering landscape engaging in social engineering scheme's.closed or open source doesn't matter. 

Recently OS News blasted owner thom howlerda "check spelling" blasted byran lunduke for being a nazi, bryan is jewish. He was being blasted because he disagrees with the leftist narrative being pushed everywhere 

I have thoughts on that (and other matters) but we are changing the point of this thread. If we are going to go deeper we should do it in another thread?

Sounds like LinuxCNC has some catching up to do if anyone wants to use those features.

The inclusion of switchable kinematics has made it possible:

forum.linuxcnc.org/show-your-stuff/49103...-head?start=0#271334

Although I read a few discussions related to this sort of question I haven't been able to find a definitive answer to my situation (i.e. not a real problem).

So, my machine is set up as metric and if I draw in a particular Inventor project in inches the g-code generated dictates inches through G20. Everything runs fine and the parts are spot on as you would expect. Now, I don't always want to go to the trouble of making a drawing and code for some simple actions where I just jog the mill over an item. This actually still works kind of OK but the display shows MM and I have to convert the inches I'm working to into metric each time, which is a bit of a PITA.

Is there a simple way I can start LCNC up and get an inch or mm display without having to convert all the machine specs (even if that was possible) in the Pncconf wizard? I also have a .hal file for the jog pendant which should be relatively easy to modify for inch movement.

Excuses if this has been answered before. Any input gratefully received.

Regards,
Martyn

Heh - I have never used or explored G68.x or G53.x. I probably would have if I was the operator on my machine if my machine did not have LinuxCNC controlling it. When I found OpenCNC (in 1997) and then EMC/EMC2 (~2000) I stopped exploring Fanuc (or any other) controls.
Sounds like LinuxCNC has some catching up to do if anyone wants to use those features.

Hello,
at the end of the dmesg output i get this in red:
[ 131.300428] DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
[ 131.300430] DMAR: [DMA Read NO_PASID] Request device [04:00.0] fault addr 0xfff9f000 [fault reason 0x06] PTE Read access is not set

i could not find something helpful here only things about the GPU (i have a standard intel board no nvidia card on it)

Georg

You can rotate the head and then machine away like normal.

Exactly. This is why it's so much easier to demonstrate the value of TWP on machines with tool side rotation.

forum.linuxcnc.org/media/kunena/attachme...5994/TWP_example.gif

When I have different EtherCAT slave devices, like the MADLN05BE drive or an EtherCAT coupler from a different vendor, I face issues where the EtherCAT slaves are not being recognized. What should I do to resolve this?

Aceria

I'm very interested I have seen it used on a Heidenhain machine

Really cool

You can rotate the head and then machine away like normal.

Anyway I'll get the machine cutting and see how I go

I've studied the Banana Pi BPI-F3, it looks very interesting. But what about LinuxCNC and RISC-V processor support? Will it be possible to run EtherCAT and GPIO out of the box? Or will I have to assemble and compile everything myself?

And what do you think about the Banana Pi BPI-M5 Pro with Rockchip RK3576?
banana-pi.org/en/banana-pi-sbcs/177.html

Nooo, that page says its part of Debian so nothing to do in the apt foders
Can you try
sudo apt update
sudo apt install samba

Is it possible to work with rp2040 via uart instead of Ethernet? Is the bandwidth and response time enough? I'm considering a variant of sbc on Intel n100 with rp2040.

I think that this is probably a feature of the UI that you are using, rathe than a base LinuxCNC feature.

You're right. The question is about the qtdragon GUI.

One use would be to move the spindle to a more convenient place to perform the manual toolchange.

That's true!
If you change the AUTO mode from , you can move the spindle position.
I haven't found a useful way to use it yet, but it's good to know that it's possible.

This GUI not only allows you to escape the Z axis when pausing without stopping the program, but also allows you to optionally move and rotate the spindle when manually changing tools.