NativeCAM is Features renamed

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

cncnoob1979 wrote: 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.

I think you hit it exactly. I had the exact problem myself when I was running Master and attempted to get NativeCam going. NativeCam worked stand alone in terminal BUT when I tried embedded Master modified my INI file making the changes to axis's and adding joints. Andys routine in Master is what did it. This caused NativeCam to not run.

When I switched over to 2.7.8 release all was cured and NativeCam worked fine. Master automatically modifying my INI file is what caused the problem. 2.7.8 does not automatically run Andys axis/joint routine so NativeCam works nicely.
Fern will have to make changes to cure this issue, Master will eventually become the release version.

This is fun Isn't it, today's error:
I setup linuxcnc fresh install yet again, this time I pulled the git lcnc, at the same time as the NativeCam.
Followed the instructions then went to stepconf wizard and couldn't config a machine with this error.

That is due to using "sudo" where you should have not used it, now Linuxcnc has no write permission to that folder.
Try this
Sudo thunar
If using debian wheezy or
Sudo nautilus
If using mint
Navigate to Linuxcnc folder located in your home folder ( usualu when thunar or nautilus opens, you get desktop documents and linuxcnc ), right click on it and choose properties, select permisions in the uper portion of the window, change the permissions to read and write for user cncuser in your case.
Start stepconf, it should work as usual but linuxcnc might still have permission issues.

Cheers Tommylight that put me back on track.

It was actually because I was using a root terminal when I pulled and installed and not using sudo when should have but same meat different gravy init?
I did net install of Stretch and lxde-core this time just to play then changed kernel and then cloned the gits.