NativeCAM is Features renamed

Grump,

You have the right to give up
Thanks for giving me a chance to try help you

Fern

Hi,

Here is a tip that might speedup operation of NativeCAM or maybe protect your ssd if you worry about it.

You all know that on every change, the ncam.ngc is recreated and reloaded by lcnc.
Use a ram disk by editing etc/fstab and include this line :
tmpfs /mnt/ramdisk tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec,nodiratime,size=1024K 0 0
and set your ini configuration
[DISPLAY] PROGRAM_PREFIX = /mnt/ramdisk

Fern

So being a glutton for punishment I put an install on my laptop which doesn't have parport but will do a demo for me.
I cloned the git and from that directory issued the "sudo ./nondeb_setup.py" command.
I still got an error message and lost hope for a brief moment.

cncuser@debian:~/.git/NativeCAM$ sudo ./nondeb_setup.py
[sudo] password for cncuser:
wait, processing...
"from ncam import NCam" already exists in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gladevcp/hal_pythonplugin.py

created link to ncam.py in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gladevcp

created link to pref_edit.py in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gladevcp

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./nondeb_setup.py", line 96, in <module>
os.symlink(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/nativecam.mo'), fr_mo)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists
cncuser@debian:~/.git/NativeCAM$

I then went to my cnc menu only to be surprised that I actually had the nativecam index there in front f my own eyes, "wonders will never cease".


Gingerly I ventured to click on the mill and couldn't believe mu very own when it burst into a full fledged screen of ncam.ngc
What now I ask myself???????



Will I be disappointed when I try this again on the real PC with working parport, I have to remind myself this is but a demo I am miraculously seeing here.

Clicked on ncam.py used in stand alone and lost the complete setup, back to square one with it.

grump wrote:

Clicked on ncam.py used in stand alone and lost the complete setup, back to square one with it.

What did you do exactly ?

Fern

I wish I knew then I would undo it?
I now have 3 folders, ncam. ncam.old and ncam.old.old

grump wrote:

I now have 3 folders, ncam. ncam.old and ncam.old.old

I never wrote anything to create or rename files or directories with 'old' extension
Would you post a listing of what is in them ?

FernV

That sounds like the update script 2.8 pre uses to update the older ini. For joint axis branch. Andy wrote it.

Creates an old folder for backup purposes.

Didn't get back sooner, been out. I can't list what's in them as I deleted and started again.
Half way through it now, It shouldn't be hard to replicate if you wanted to, I think cncnoob might well be right.
I copied my config files into the ncam folder and ran it from there, it may be that when I went stand alone it made the .old folder and repeated when I tried to embed again.
It may not be that but I couldn't get it to embed again and it's quicker to reinstall than mess about.

grump wrote:

... it's quicker to reinstall than mess about.

What is quicker is to open your inifile and see all the lines after '# required NativeCAM item :'

You should have a line that reads : 'GLADEVCP = -U --catalog=mill ncam.ui'. Only the demos show 'ncam.ui' since it is copied in the demo directories
Anytime you use 'ncam -i your_inifile.ini' the full path to 'ncam.ui' is used to save redundancy, plus it will create a backup of your inifile and a new modified one, then create ncam sub-directories and necessary files and links.

This is the recommended way.

Fern