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I have used AutoCAD V13, Catia V4 and V5, Inventor, and Onshape in the past. I have been using Freecad for a while now. For simple stuff I find it just as good as any CAD program, once you become more rigorous with your use of reference plans rather then sketching on existing geometry.

With the castings I am drawing up for my antique motorbike engine project, where everything has draft angles and fillets,  I am definitely hitting the limits of it's filleting engine. I normally end up deleting my extrudes, and fillets multiple times, and changing the order I do things, and sometimes find an order which leads to most of the fillets I need. Luckily the time consuming part is the sketches, so there is not too much pain involved in backing up on extrudes and fillets, as the sketches get reused.

There is some issue with MacOS's latest release 15.4 which breaks access to numpy, which the CAM workbench needs. There is a workaround which works for some, but didn't for me.
forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?p=824067#p824067.

There is something odd with your installation.
I just tried myself to "apt remove ethercat-master ethercat-dkms" followed by "apt install ethercat-master ethercat-dkms" and it worked just fine.
I do not get the "tainted kernel" message.
Can it be that you have compiled the ethercat master yourself at one point? And that the runnning ethercat master is looking for ec_generic in a place where it isn't?
It's a bit of guesswork and searching now.
Can you the command "sudo service ethercat status" and compare the ouput with mine?
 

Edit. Can you also repeat the search for ec_generic, but this time search for ec_master, in the same way?

Edit 2. No need to search. Instead show the output of the command "sudo modinfo ec_master", especially the first filename line.

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I would first take a look at:

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/ini-homing.html

You can share limit/home switches

It seems to me that rather than a center limit, you would do some math in hal
to assert a fault if the heads get too close to one another.

I would expect that specific support for a dual head gantry machine would have to be done
by direct editing of the hal/ini files, not something that a generic GUI setup can reasonably do.
 

Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. I've since reinstalled the system, but there's no improvement. I don't understand it. The system worked before the reinstallation. I performed the installation according to the instructions. Anything else isn't possible for me anyway, as I'm just a user and don't know enough to try anything myself.

[  100.533257] EtherCAT: Master module cleaned up.
[  101.670667] EtherCAT: Master driver 1.6.4 1.6.4.g703b611-1+17.1
[  101.670804] EtherCAT: 1 master waiting for devices.

Master0
  Phase: Waiting for device(s)...
  Active: no
  Slaves: 0
  Ethernet devices:
    Main: 80:ee:73:fd:0f:8b (waiting...)
      Link: DOWN

the only thing I noticed:
8.198677] ec_master: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

 

I need assistance setting up my dual-head gantry system in LinuxCNC. My current configuration has:

• Limit switches at both ends of each axis
• An additional center-position switch (to prevent collisions between the two gantry heads)
• No dedicated home switches (just these limit switches)

I'm trying to understand:

1. How to properly configure these limit switches to also function as home switches
2. The correct way to set up homing for this dual-head gantry system
3. How to implement the center-position switch to prevent collisions between heads
4. Proper configuration in MESA CT for this setup

I've reviewed the documentation but am unclear about:

• How to handle the limit switch configuration when there's no dedicated home switch
• The best homing sequence for this dual-head arrangement
• How to implement the center-position switch logic

Could someone experienced with similar setups please advise on:

• The appropriate HAL and INI configurations
• Best practices for homing in this scenario
• Any special considerations for the MESA CT hardware

Thank you in advance for your help!

Well, that was easy.

Figured it out with the help of Hakan! Filled me in on what I was not getting. Working now, or at least far more complete than what I have ever had before.

www.forum.linuxcnc.org/qtvcp/56093-movin...s-to-qtdragon#328018

Thank you!

"Didn't you copy that one over?"

No, as a matter of fact I didn't as up until you mentioned it just now, I did not know that was what I needed to do. But now that I have done it, it looks like it is actually working. At least the gui is now opening and I'm getting signals like endstop and estop triggers being reported as well as mist and flood working.

Thank you for the help. Like I said, I am brand new to LinuxCNC and have something just less of a clue what I'm actually doing. I am considering my self lucky good folks like you have been able to help me make it up as I go along.

Thank you

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