THCAD-10

We'll be here to help. John can take the day shift and Phill and I down under will do the night shift

I'll be watching from the stands ! Currently doing some cleaning and modifications to the workshop, it was a mess !

tommylight wrote: I'll be watching from the stands ! Currently doing some cleaning and modifications to the workshop, it was a mess !

Hmm, forgot about your time zone. Looks like we need to run 3 shifts!

Ok

I have a run in place plasmac alongside my 2.7 installation. It is late here in the UK so unable to go any further tonight. I can start the sims in the various gui’s and they look great, although my current drivers limit my monitor to 1024x768 so I am having to scroll a bit to see all the details.
Not sure what the next step is in order for me to be able to use this as a live solution.

Darren

Dee436 wrote:
Not sure what the next step is in order for me to be able to use this as a live solution.

Copy the sim config files and subdirectories you want to use to a directory in your ~/linuxcnc directory.
Copy your existing working hal and ini files into the above directory.
Open the ???_plasmac.ini file and copy any of the required sections/settings to your inifile.
Open the plasmac.hal file and make necessary changes.
Run linuxcnc like:
$ ~/your_git_directory/scripts/linuxcnc ~/linuxcnc/configs/your_config_directory/your_ini_file.ini

Hopefully you will be up and running. (assuming I haven't forgotten something...)

Cheers, Phill

Thanks Phill

Will try it this evening.

What you have put together looks really good.

Darren

Dee

If you have trouble post your current working .ini and .hal files here. Also post the full path you are trying to install the configuration AND the full path to the plasmac sim you ran. I have just done this recently but will be off island for the middle of the week.

Get your Z working first followed by any single drive axis and finally any dual drive axis.

John

rodw wrote:

tommylight wrote: I'll be watching from the stands ! Currently doing some cleaning and modifications to the workshop, it was a mess !

Hmm, forgot about your time zone. Looks like we need to run 3 shifts!

It is 3:23 AM here, does that count as the third shift ?

I appreciate the offers of help on this, but unfortunately due to work I have not had the chance to spend anymore time looking at this. I am hoping to get a couple of hours this coming week to try get the configs done and see how it goes.

Here is my THCad installation. I connect to the CPC plug on the back of my plasma (TD).

John