Order Placed.... Cannot wait to play.
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Order Placed.... Cannot wait to play.
Upgraded O.S.,F&S, CAM, and CAD $oftware might as well upgrade the control software.
That'll allow you to narrow the cause of any problems to something went wrong...
Yes, I built an even bigger house of cards! Had to my other house of cards was to small and out of date.Quote:
Originally Posted by kstrauss
Lathe profiling sounds really useful! Can anyone elaborate on the profiling capability yet?
Cheers Cliff
Well....I see l there is now information on profile in the current operators manual.
Page 76 - 81.
Cheers Cliff
Does anyone know, is Dropbox the only form of Networking available? If it is Linix based, can it just connect to our LAN to share and copy files?
Also, I thought I had heard there would be an off-line simulator or emulator to create and edit PathPilot programs while not at the machine. I thought this was to be web-based. Anyone know about this?
Yeah, I really don’t see any good reason to use Dropbox or WiFi.
It’s much better to use a wired connection then setup some shares.
I already do this on the current version of PathPilot using the built-in NFS protocol and this works fine using my NAS.
There are no web-based emulators for PP that I know of.
One can run PP in a VirtualBox and do everything you want without a machine connected.
This has been discussed here: PathPilot 2.x and PathPilot Simulator
[QUOTE=shassel;2125164Also, I thought I had heard there would be an off-line simulator or emulator to create and edit PathPilot programs while not at the machine[/QUOTE]
All sorts of commercial and freeway d-code editors and simulators available for writing g-code.
PP as a program isn't really that good for writing g-code on, apart from maybe the conversational aspects of it.
I am kind of disappointed; I thought with PP2 that they would add some more conversational tabs.
Ordered yesterday, hopefully get a chance to play over xmas.
I wonder if there's any reason to make a backup to go back to 1.9.xx JIC...... (I'm not using a Tormach controller computer)
I also am hoping for some more "front end" stuff as the wifi/drop box bit wasn't really that big of a deal. I guess it's a wait and see what improvements in there are tangible for a hobbyist such as myself.
M
I ordered and got a shipping confirmation/tracking number yesterday for "USPS - PRIORITY MAIL INTERNATIONAL ". Hopefully Christmas will arrive in Cobourg next week!
Which manual did you download? I tried all the latest manuals I could find online but no of them described the profile feature.Quote:
Originally Posted by keen
I've nevertheless been playing with it for a while and I was quite impressed with the first tests in imperial units (I haven't run the profile routine on the machine yet - maybe tomorrow). However, it took me a few attempts to get it running in metric because it carried some initial values from imperial and it wasn't too happy. Once you get the hang of it it's actually quite nice :) Just check over ALL the values.
for example?Quote:
Originally Posted by tmarks11
Step
The SlantPro manual got updated on 12/7 it appears.
UM10225: 15L Slant-PRO Lathe Operator Manual
https://www.tormach.com/tormach-prod...t_name=Manuals
Thanks! I did check this version but I guess I was thrown by all the conversational screen shots except those for the profile op being from V1x without the profile tab.Quote:
Originally Posted by old-cnc-geek
Regards
Step
Received PathPilot 2.0 this afternoon. Will update my simulator install tomorrow evening in virtual box then update the mill's controller this weekend.
Steve
Got it installed last night, install went smoothly on my DIY Controller.
One thing to note, after it updates the MESA firmware, I needed to turn the computer off/on, not restart.. At least with mine anyway, it kept telling me I needed to restart each time.
Oh and I had a permission error after setting up dropbox that I'll have to look into. I am excited for dropbox because I work across 5 or so different computers, in different locations and it will be nice to have ONE place for my posts to go.
Will be making some chips tonight!
Just saw a 2.0 install video posted on the blog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEOCElzEXD8
Installed without issue this evening. Dropbox installed. Ran a quick test job.
Everything went smoothly.
Glad to have dropbox functioning properly.
WW
Can you choose which dropbox folders to sync? I have a lot of stuff on my dropbox account I don't want to sync on my Pathpilot PC.
Also, do you know which version of Linux PP 2.0 runs on?
You can exclude folders, but you have to type the name of each individual folder to exclude.