Now that I have the simulator working (thanks again, @sharmstr), I am thinking about the best ways to keep it and my real PathPilot synchronized. Is there a known way to load & save the Offsets table from & to a file?
No idea. Someone from Tormach contacted me on FB because of the PP customization I've been working on. They suggested that I participate in the beta. That's all I know.
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Now that I have the simulator working (thanks again, @sharmstr), I am thinking about the best ways to keep it and my real PathPilot synchronized. Is there a known way to load & save the Offsets table from & to a file?
Operator/mill_data/tool.tbl is the comma separated file which is your tool table.
Tormach PCNC 1100 Series 3 w/ Rapid Turn, Fusion 360
Also, I assume that you could use admin settings backup on one instance and admin settings restore on the other instance.
I've looked at the simulator's Operator/mill_data/tool.tbl file, and it has only a subset of the information that is visible from within the simulator. For example, the simulator has
but the pertinent section of the Operator/mill_data/tool.tbl file shows the OD, but not the description:
Is there another file with the descriptions?
The description is in a separate database rather than flat file. That is why I suggested that the ADMIN SETTINGS BACKUP command might be better. The tool table flat file together with the database are combined into a .zip for the backup.
I'm not experienced enough to give you a detailed answer, but I'd say no. The PP ui was done with glade. Really old versions of everything so it was hard to find installers. I tried to use it to modify PP but I found it cumbersome so I'm editing the files directly with Notepad ++ and Scribes. Hopefully PP 2.0 is using gtk3 and running on a newer version of linuxcnc, ubuntu, and glade. That might make it worthwhile to learn glade. I didnt know any of this 2 weeks ago, so take it with a grain of salt.
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Thanks for the info. I've heard of glade but have never touched it before.
I received the 2.0 beta USB yesterday. I dont see a reason to do another install video as there only a few differences in installing on a VB client.
- I couldnt get it to install on a 32 bit client. When you create your client, select 64 bit. All the other settings (memory and disk size) are the same
- VirtualBox doesnt allow you to boot to the USB for install. To get around that, you can download Plop Boot Manager (https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html) to your host. Extract the zip, then mount the iso (plpbt.iso) to your client as well as your usb drive. Start the client and select USB on the boot menu. The PP install is the same after that. Once the PP installer is finished, unmount plpbt.iso and restart.
- I didnt have to change the config file to tell PP to launch in sim mode.
That's it if you just want PP to run. If, however, you dont want PP to launch at startup there are a few more differences
- /usr/bin/mate-panel instead of /usr/bin/gnome-panel
- "Startup Applications" is now in All Applications
- To crate the PP launcher, use "mate-terminal -x bash -c "~/operator_login"
side note: Host shared folders no longer show up in PP
EDIT: You can create a link to the hosts shared folders in your gcode directory. Open up terminal and run the following command. Change the share names to match yours
sudo ln -s /media/your_host_share_name /home/operator/gcode/whatever_name_here
Now when you go to the file tab in PP, you'll see your shared folder in the left window instead of the USB window. And now that I think about this, its probably a better way of doing it even in v1.9.13
Last edited by sharmstr; 11-03-2017 at 11:06 AM. Reason: added work around for host shared folders
Tormach PCNC 1100 Series 3 w/ Rapid Turn, Fusion 360
What version of Ubuntu does the beta use?
kstrauss, no one is willing to say I guess! I would assume Debian Debian 7.0 Wheezy because that is what the current version of LCNC uses.
But there is also Debian 8.0 Jessie is from 2015 and Debian 9.0 is 2017.
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So what is potentially new in path pilot 2.0 other than OS updated?
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Just spoke with Tormach tech support. They said no state secret! PP 2.0 should be public in a couple weeks...
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potentially silly question
In the simulator, PP doesn't "see" my USB stick with programs on it to test. How do I get it to "see" the USB or where do I copy files to on the HD for them to show up to load into PP
Thx
M
Thanks, didn't see the bit about having to add the device
M
Thanks for this info. I was able to install PP on my MacBook under Parallels, directly from the PP CD.
1. Created ISO file from PP CD using Disk Utility.
2. Added VM in Parallels, selecting the ISO file as media.
3. Set memory to 2GB and HDD to 32GB.
4. Install ran from start to finish.
5. Selected Mill, MESA error, hit ok.
6. Restarted VM and held down Fn-LSHIFT-Alt at Tormach Splash Screen
7. Changed config as noted and restarted VM.
8. Everything is functional.