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Merry Christmas!

I know this is not my thread, but can I ask how hostmot2 is compiled and installed from source files to .so file ? (if that is the correct extension), I tried Halcompile in my innocence...makefile in mesaflash folder creates a hostmot2.o but I'm not sure how to progress..

Many thanks and best wishes for the upcoming year
Dorro

Any help idiots guide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you. Better late than never. I am working on the road today and tomorrow, I will try this on Sunday and see how it goes. Will let you know.

Sorry for the late reply, the forum has stopped sending me notifications.

In the INI [KINS] section
The in the joints and axes defintions:

Also, in [TRAJ]
The in the HAL file make sure that all references to the INI file like 'setp pid.z.Pgain [JOINT_2]P" point to things that exist (they should, if you tructure it like I showed above)

I added this to my g540.ini file in the HALUI section

MDI_COMMAND o<logpoint> CALL.

Then in in my PROGRAM_PREFIX directory (home//linuxcnc/nc_files)

I wrote logpoint.ngc containing:

o<logpoint> sub
(logopen, logfile.txt)
(log, #5420 #5421 #5422)
o<logpoint> endsub
m2

and created an empty file logfile.txt in the nc_files folder

What do I do to actually run the command? I get an 'unknown word' error typing logpoint into the MDI window. If I run the logpoint.ngc file from the main page nothing seems to happen.

I trried the links in Andy's post above and they went to 404 error pages.

Thanks. Like I said, I am no whiz at this stuff...

Boxford have been making machine tools for a long time:
www.lathes.co.uk/boxford/index.html
And are still around today:
www.boxford.co.uk/cnc-machining-centres/

It's called "Phil" to rhyme with "Mill".
Maybe they also had a Dave the Lathe?

Where did you get it from? This has a vague feeling of hackspace humour.

Cant do this anymore bye all wrote:

Whilst the Mesa hardware is quite complex (firmware wise) it requires a computer running Linuxcnc to instruct as to what to do.

This is true in the context of LinuxCNC (and this forum) but Mesa do have alternative firmwares that perform motion control in the FPGA. 

store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=produc...th=65&product_id=163

Is also on linuxcnc. But then in development. Just to cheer you up.


 

There's some generic information here:

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/getting-started/u...e_to_the_new_version

But it might be better to just ask here on the forum with an appropriate topic, like
 "How do I update LinuxCNC to the latest"

etc



 

Which one is that?