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7 years 1 week ago #148589 by DomCa
Hi all,

I mentioned it in another thread: I just finished my first CNC build (Sorotec AL-Line).
My background is purely electrical/computers and I started with the CNC to get into mechanical stuff. That said, I had no problems with the Linux and the installing part and tuning the latency.

I am now running my CNC with a pure Linuxcnc 2.7.14 via Parport without any modifications/addons.
My problem is that I don't even know which addons/modifications could be interesting for me :silly:

Wandering around in the forum I found the probekins (wich seems dead) and the probe screen addons, which look like I want them :cheer:

My question to all the CNC experts here is:
Which addons/modifications should a total CNC newby consider when working with LinuxCNC?

As you may imagine, I would like to have everything that serves to show off and impress friends :laugh:
Seriously: for example I am not shure if mounting a USB camera would be usefull for homing on the workpiece although it definitely looks cool. What if I add a dust shoe, which I will definitely do. I would probably prefer the probe (which I would have to build/buy) with probe screen.
Another point is: Instead of probekins should I use gcode ripper? I like the Idea of having everything in LinuxCNC

Maybe this thread can be a collection of stuff for total newbies to try out and then devide which way to go.

Cheers!
DomCa

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7 years 1 week ago #148596 by andypugh
Probekins was an experiment aimed at compensating for out-of-flat when engraving PCBs. (though might also have been useful for engraving non-flat components).
It turns out that doing the compensation in the kinematics has some problems. The same idea, though, could potentially be used with the (new) "external offsets" feature and would probably work better.

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7 years 1 week ago #148606 by pl7i92
ich denke du bist in Deutschland wenn du eine sorotec maschine hast dann solltest du vileicht mla in meine Yt kanal reinschauen

WAs für motoren hast du da drann
hast du schon eien elektronik ?
Scroll mal runter ! ;-)
www.youtube.com/channel/UCGuJsIoXW-exBAwdn38dXow/videos
es gibt hier auch eien Livechat der dir direkt an dr maschine weiterhilft

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7 years 1 week ago #148683 by DomCa
@pl7i92: Na selbstverständlich kenne ich deinen Kanal schon ;)
Ist ja eine DER Informationsquellen auf Deutsch zu LinuxCNC und FreeCAD. Ich wusste nur nicht, dass du als pl7i92 hier im Forum unterwegs bist.

Es ist eine AL-Line 1107, Elektronik ist auch von Sorotec mit Benezan BOB und DM556 von Leadshine, Schrittmotoren 3NM, 4,2A von Nanotec. Das ist alles fertig aufgebaut. Meine Frage bezog sich auch nicht mehr so auf die Grundlagen. Meine Fräse läuft auch schon. (Heute kommte der FU für die Spindel)

Ich wollte einfach nur mal abfragen, was die "Alten Hasen" so an Addons verwenden, also z.B. das Probe Screen, oder eine USB-Camera oder sowas. Ich bin auf dem Gebiet einfach ziemlich ahnungslos...

Grüße
DomCa

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7 years 1 week ago #148684 by DomCa
Hi Andy,

that is exactly what I want to do. Make some PCBs...
I do not yet have the knowledge to create a HAL component to work with the offsets.
Maybe in the future.

Thanks!
DomCa

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7 years 1 week ago #148720 by pl7i92
eigentlich braucht man keine addons
vileicht noch das Anfahren abr das geht auch mit einem Button und einer selbst gefummelten ngc so wie du das gerne möchtest
ich mach das so
funktioniert immer ist ja sowieso nur ein werkzeug in der spindle


aus welcher region bist du ich bin in kaiserslautern

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3 years 6 months ago #269742 by udoS
Hi, wenn's noch aktuell ist;  Raum Kaiserslautern;

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