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They are actually disable pins, not ensable. Its best to leave them disconnected as you have enough to worry about for now. Sometimes they are useful for estop but as Tommy says leave well alone for now;

I’m having a lot of trouble configuring my LinuxCNC turn profile with Fusion 360. Could someone explain how they set theirs up? Does the standard post/profile work properly on your machine? I keep running into a ton of errors, even when trying the example files. Any guidance or working configurations would be really appreciated.

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Or should I leave them unconnected.

Yes, at least for now, till you get the machine working properly.

Thanks for the help.

Installing it on another computer worked. At first it gave the same error because it didnt have the drivers for the wireless card. Plugged it in and it installed no problem.  Im wondering if I wasnt getting internet on the cnc, it said it connected successfully and internet worked when I booted live.

Hello all, I have a question about the enable pin on my stepper drivers, I have 4x DM542T stepper drivers from Stepper Online connected to my Mesa 7i76EU. Is it recommended to connect the enable pins to the Mesa, and if so where should they be connected to. Or should I leave them unconnected.

Any bpdy in the forum heve used this gRPC

github.com/dougcalobrisi/linuxcnc-grpc

not sure if it is real time but I think is an interesting aproach sinse GRPC is lenguaje agnostic 
prety well supported and i think the c++ or RUST version can run deterministic

Should be fixed

I guess I could try. Little bit harder as im using a m.2 ssd

Do you have another PC that you can use to install?
You can put the hard drive from this PC into another PC, install it there, then move it back to this PC.
Usually it works first try, granted it does install on the other PC.
Make sure to disconnect the hard drives on the other PC before all this to prevent accidentally wiping it.

Any more suggestions? I've now wasted another night after work trying to do this.  I've downloaded the iso again and put it on a different stick. Updated bios. Confirmed internet via live.

I do recall seeing those plates ...

Welcome back Arcsynapse89! 

Do you mean the other way round?

I think that the ISO files install Trixie.

The .deb packages are linking to bookworm.
( ..../dists/bookworm/2.9-uspace/binary-amd64/linuxcnc-uspace_2.9.8_amd64.deb )

Hi Greg,

I have a spare THCAD board that was donated to me by a fellow Linuxcnc forum member that I can send to you if you still need it. Its out in my storage unit in Dubbo so it might be a while before I can send it to you.

You can contact me on my email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

My experience with my industrial CNC plasma table I designed and built is as follows,
 

• I would not recommend a water table for a machine that is used in heavy plate production as slag build up on the slats causes them to need frequent cleaning.
  
   
  
  
   
  
  • I tried multiple solutions to remove the top layer of slag but in heavy use it is only temporary.
  • In the end we ended up just replacing the slats every couple of months as the labor cost to remove and clean them far out-weighted the cost of replacement.
  • When I first built the machine, I incorporated slat mounts into the machine frame but as soon as we started using it for heavy production, we found it very hard to remove the slats to clean them. I rebuilt the slat support mounts and built removeable frames the slats mounted into. We would then crane the thee slat sections out with a forklift every other week to clean out the massive about of metal slag.
  • I was lucky enough that a fire hose reel was positioned near the machine to keep the water level topped up, but after I left the company, my replacement foreman experimented with different water level heights and found that for the air pressure of the Hypertherm Powermax 125 we are using, the water does not need to be at the top of the slats to remove the plasma smoke from the air.
  • I built a large under-table custom water storage tank and had it hot dipped galvanized. I found it very crucial to have a water storage tank to drain the water so the slag can be shoveled out. I spent many hours some days shoveling out slag into a large recycling bin and in heavy use the slag is heavier that concrete.
  • My next table will be a down-draft table as I have seen post on the forum showing how a baffle system can be use to reduce the required air flow suction to safety remove the plasma smoke.
  • I brought a refractometer to keep and eye on the plasma water solution concentration, but found that as long as I keep the water level stable and added trace amounts of plasma water table fluid, rust was mostly non-existent 
    
     
    
    
    
    
    I hope this helps someone as I learnt everything the hard way multple times.