Moving from Axis to QtDragon?

Hello all. Completely new and ignorant to this topic, and after more than a little searching I have not found any answers.

I currently have a Remora/NVEM configuration working under the Axis interface and would like to move that into QtDragon. However, that is not a simple cut and paste operation, and I can not find any guidance on how to even begin to attempt it. Just looking at the differences between the Axis and QtDragon directories has me confused. They are not the same.

Any help or guidance would be appreciated as I am at a loss to find a starting point. I can certainly provide my .hal and .ini files if needed.
 

Just one approach is to find a setup you like among the linuxcnc example and take a copy of that.
Copy your ini and hal file over those files.
Change the DISPLAY line in the ini file toand there is a good chance it starts up. A starting point.
 

I regret to inform you, but maybe a better closing statement would be - "and there is almost no chance it starts up. A starting point"

Attached is the LinuxCNC Errors report that comes from trying to run the config with "DISPLAY = qtvcp qtdragon". The forum will not let me put the error in the code quotes as it thinks it's spam being posted. Any suggestions as to what needs to be done to start to fix the mess?

That was expected and just warnings. You can add what it complains about to the ini file later.
But it errors on a missing "postgui_call_list.hal" file
Didn't you copy that one over? All used hal files from the old config need to come over.

"Didn't you copy that one over?"

No, as a matter of fact I didn't as up until you mentioned it just now, I did not know that was what I needed to do. But now that I have done it, it looks like it is actually working. At least the gui is now opening and I'm getting signals like endstop and estop triggers being reported as well as mist and flood working.

Thank you for the help. Like I said, I am brand new to LinuxCNC and have something just less of a clue what I'm actually doing. I am considering my self lucky good folks like you have been able to help me make it up as I go along.

Thank you

Great. So now just work through the QT dragon docs and add the many enhancements to the GUI in a postgui file

Yeah! Just as soon as I can figure out just what I'm missing to get a piece of gcode to run after loading, sure. Once I open a .ngc file (says it doesn't know what an .nc file is?????), nothing I do will allow me to click cycle start. The cycle start button is never active.

I have more than a few questions and the most of them I don't even know what to ask. Never the less, I keep hacking away.

Spyderbreath wrote:

Linuxcnc will open anything. you can even teach it to not complain about .NC files by editing your .INI file

Had a bit of a break and thought a minute and I think I figured this out. There is an entry [FILTER] in the .ini file and I added a line below that PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .nc,.ngc,.gcode G-Code and not only did that work, placing it first in the list makes it the default. Very nice. Thanks for that bit of info. Much appreciated.

If anyone thinks this should be in it;s own thread, let me know, but I still have a few questions about the GUI.

There are override sliders for max velocity, rapid, feed rate, and spindle. The max velocity and rapid default at 100%, shiny. The problem is that 100% is about 3X more than my machine can move. It says its 12000 for both. Need to be set at ~3600 each. Been looking through the config files and I am not seeing those numbers anywhere. Where do they come from?