Configuring Plasmac - a complete THC/plasma config for any hardware

You are welcome.
Now you have a bit of fine tuning to do...

Cheers, Phill.

JTknives wrote: Oh thank the lord, phill you are a god send. I am up and running and no errors. Thankyou all for all your help in this journey out of this black hole.

great. Think on the bright side. I've been in the hole for about 3 years.....
My wife talked about me workon on my spaceship in the garage as she had no idea what I was doing so that where my machine name came from...

I have a suggestion, or maybe a tip, that some may find convenient. Make a launcher (shortcut) to the plasmac linuxcnc installation so you don't have to fumble with the terminal each time.

Save the following in a file called PlasmaC.desktop on your desktop:
OR
Modify an existing configuration shortcut's Exec line to look like the one above.

Might need to mark it executable. From the terminal that's

When I set up mine I just check the box titled create desktop link when you run LinuxCNC from a terminal.

Oh how are you guys connecting your Estop. I looked through the hal and noticed an Estop command but no pin call outs.

JTknives wrote: When I set up mine I just check the box titled create desktop link when you run LinuxCNC from a terminal.

*face palm* I just figured that would try to launch the 'other' installation of linuxcnc instead of the rip-environment. I figured wrong. Whoops.

JTknives wrote: When I set up mine I just check the box titled create desktop link when you run LinuxCNC from a terminal.

Oh how are you guys connecting your Estop. I looked through the hal and noticed an Estop command but no pin call outs.

The secret is to use estop-latch
BigJohnT has an example here forum.linuxcnc.org/47-hal-examples/25861-external-e-stop

I ended up with 3 estops buttons and I managed to create an estop chain in hal for all of them by extending this but there were no examples anywhere