[Contract_Pilot]

Progress got it to load using the sim INI.

[racedirector]

Looking promising! I see you used the Lathe ini, any luck with the Mill ini?

[rowbare]

I am going to follow the path laid out by Traces a few posts back. Except that I just picked up another SDD to keep LinuxCNC completely separate from Path Pilot. I am leery of changing Path Pilot because I don't want to create any support issues for Tormach or myself.

I have been collecting info in another thread, but probably it would be better if I moved here to continue my Path Pilot 'education'.

Can anyone recommend a good tech forum for LinuxCNC?

A lot of LinuxCNC support is done on IRC channel #linuxcnc on irc.freenode.net.

bob

[racedirector]

Finally got my router working under PathPilot, just a couple changes to make to the tool change routines to suit my machine by so far so good. I am a happy man at this point. Oh, and this is via parallel port, not a Mesa card

https://youtu.be/ZgU57Zdec9I

[phoneman]

What version of PP did you use as your host. was it 1.9.2 I would like to do the same for my router when I get it built.

Dave

[racedirector]

Dave, this is 1.9.2.

Cheers

[daniellyall]

racedirector can you give some pointer`s to how you got it done I am think of doing the same

[racedirector]

Hi Daniel

Yup, I'll post my file with pointers when I have sorted most things in the next couple of days...

Cheers

[Aaron Bruce]

Good video ,good machine.cheers!

[daniellyall]

cool thank you

[phoneman]

Race

Watched the video. I note that the only tab I could see when you showed the PP screen was MAIN. Are all the other tabs there just not showing for some reason.
OK I watched the video again and when you stopped the operation the rest of the tabs showed up.

Dave

[brianbonedoc]

Can u tell me how you bypassed the Mesa card requirement/check that PP does?

[wtopace]

Can u tell me how you bypassed the Mesa card requirement/check that PP does?

Take a look at the PathPIlot launcher script. It's well written and easy to modify to remove that check... or just launch the LCNC GUI yourself and don't use the PathPilot launch scripts. Everything is in operator's home dir and runs out of the tmc softlink. The PathPilot launcher mainly adds functionality to flash the Mesa card and to handle deploying updates, neither of which you need.

Keep in mind that any updates you apply from Tormach will overwrite anything you do.

[brianbonedoc]

Thx WTO!

[simpson36]

Keep in mind that any updates you apply from Tormach will overwrite anything you do.

Hopefully, the modified files can be copied to a 'holding' area during updates and copied back afterward. I made modifications for the HAL and added 8 macros. I am going to move from 1.7.x to the latest ver, so I'll post back the results.

I'm a newbee to LinuxCNC, but si far I'm finding it to be quite impressive. As expected for an open source software, a little digging and a few searches turned up a world of cool stuff.

[jips]

Hi, is there a way to try path pilot with no machine , just in simulation mode , to play with the interface try some programm etc...?
Waiting for a step by step instructions messaless hack , you do great works guy's .
Is there any downloadable version available of the software ?

[Contract_Pilot]

jips.

Yes, Click Here

[jips]

jips.

Yes, Click Here

Fast answer ! Thanks very simple to acess the sim.ini

[eman5oh]

I am looking to try a linux cnc build with a mesa card and was wondering if any know what the spesc for the computer that Tormach sells are. Mostly interested in the motherboard processor and video specs. I assume that what they use works decently with the MESA card and has decent latency numbers. Thanks

[PCW_MESA]

I am looking to try a linux cnc build with a mesa card and was wondering if any know what the spesc for the computer that Tormach sells are. Mostly interested in the motherboard processor and video specs. I assume that what they use works decently with the MESA card and has decent latency numbers. Thanks

If you are building your own PC and want fanless, I would suggest one of the J1800 or J1900 based MBs
say a ASRock Q1900M PRO3 or ASUS J1800I-A if you want a Mini-ITX with a PCI slot

If you want a fast system with PCI,PCIE and Ethernet the known to work well with LinuxCNC with both RTAI and Preempt-RT
I would suggest a ASRock H97M Pro4 and a G32XX CPU