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grabowski ba1f5fc3a9 Optical QC: EtherCAT control
User, 18 Oct 2026: use an EtherCAT based system.

- Spindle and conveyor on the StepperOnline A6-EC100L2A1-M17 kit
  (100 W, A6-200EC drive, USD 123.29), spindle through a 1:6 belt in
  cyclic synchronous position, conveyor in cyclic synchronous velocity.
- The A6-EC drive has no divided encoder output, so an RS-422
  incremental encoder on the spindle shaft clocks both line-scans; its
  index goes to the drive touch probe for one angle reference.
- Station controller: fanless N100 mini PC with 2x Intel i226, NixOS
  PREEMPT_RT, EtherCAT master EtherCrab (Rust, MIT/Apache) first, IgH
  (nixpkgs, igc native driver on 6.12 LTS) as fallback; no PLC.
- EtherCAT I/O: EK1100, EL1809, EL2809, EL3102 (warp lasers sampled with
  the spindle position, ~1,000 points a turn at 1 ms).
- Safety stays hardwired (safety relay, contactor; no STO at 100 W).
- Edge PC with the GPU stays off the real-time loop.
- BOM: drives, encoder, controller and I/O lines with sources; total
  USD 16,112 to 32,938 (THB 0.53M to 1.09M). Next step: EtherCAT bench.
- Investor render: cabinet and outfeed labels.
2026-10-19 10:15:54 +07:00

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# Render the investor view of the inline QC station and the screen positions of
# the parts to call out (run in the FreeCAD GUI after build_station.py):
# exec(open(r"C:/dev/cnx_vinyl/docs/equipment/inline-qc-station/render_annotated.py", encoding="utf-8").read())
# Writes inline-qc-station-annotated-base.png, a check image with magenta markers,
# and anchors.json; annotate_render.py (Pillow) then draws the labels.
import json
import os
import FreeCAD as App
import FreeCADGui as Gui
import Part
from pivy import coin
OUTDIR = r"C:/dev/cnx_vinyl/docs/equipment/inline-qc-station"
W, H = 4000, 3000
V = App.Vector
# (key, 3D point on a face turned to the camera, title, one-line description)
ANCHORS = [
("frame", V(340, -320, 1150), "Aluminium profile frame", "40 × 40 mm slot profile, 1.9 × 0.65 × 1.5 m"),
("belts", V(70, -151.5, 897), "Rim-belt conveyor", "touches only the record's edge, never a groove"),
("infeed", V(200, -80, 902.5), "Infeed", "the operator sets each cooled record down"),
("label", V(520, -15, 1275), "Label cameras, top and bottom", "right label, right side, centred"),
("tunnel", V(820, 319, 1100), "Light-tight tunnel", "black panels keep factory light out"),
("lscan_top", V(975, -31, 1385), "Line-scan camera, top", "images a full radius while the record turns once"),
("lights", V(935, -30, 1042), "Inspection lights", "coaxial, low-angle dark-field and backlight"),
("chuck", V(880, -25, 690), "Lift-and-turn chuck", "lifts the record 75 mm, one turn in about 1 s"),
("lscan_bot", V(778, -31, 547), "Line-scan camera, bottom", "the underside, in the same turn"),
("lasers", V(880, -130, 925), "Laser warp sensors", "edge run-out and dish, to 0.1 mm"),
("pusher", V(1320, -300, 1020), "Reject pusher", "pushes a failed record down a chute into the bin behind"),
("outfeed", V(1715, -140, 902), "Outfeed", "good records wait for sleeving"),
("cabinet", V(1420, -200, 450), "Control cabinet", "EtherCAT controller, drives and the NixOS edge PC"),
("hmi", V(1770, -404, 1235), "Touch screen", "every verdict with its reason"),
("estop", V(1140, -386, 970), "Emergency stop", "and a safety switch on the tunnel door"),
("stack", V(1120, 274, 1720), "Stack light", "green: pass, red: reject"),
]
AZ, EL = 12.0, 28.0 # camera from the front, 12 deg to the right, 28 deg above
doc = App.getDocument("InlineQCStation")
Gui.setActiveDocument(doc.Name)
view = Gui.getDocument(doc.Name).ActiveView
try:
view.setCameraType("Orthographic")
except Exception:
pass
_vp = App.ParamGet("User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/View")
_navi_before = _vp.GetBool("ShowNaviCube", True)
_vp.SetBool("ShowNaviCube", False)
_anim_before = _vp.GetBool("UseNavigationAnimations", True)
_vp.SetBool("UseNavigationAnimations", False)
_presel_before = _vp.GetBool("EnablePreselection", True)
_vp.SetBool("EnablePreselection", False) # no hover highlight in the pictures
Gui.Selection.clearPreselection()
Gui.Selection.clearSelection()
def back_off(v, dist=8000):
"""Move the orthographic camera back along its axis so nothing sits behind the near plane."""
c = v.getCameraNode()
d = c.orientation.getValue().multVec(coin.SbVec3f(0, 0, -1))
c.position.setValue(c.position.getValue() - d * dist)
c.nearDistance.setValue(100)
c.farDistance.setValue(dist * 4)
Gui.updateGui()
open_view_hidden = ["PanelTop", "PanelFrontUpper", "PanelFrontLower", "GuardRejectFront", "GuardRejectTop",
"DoorHandle", "ThermalCam", "ThermalPost"]
for o in doc.Objects:
if o.TypeId == "Part::Feature":
o.ViewObject.Visibility = o.Name not in open_view_hidden
for o in doc.getObject("Enclosure").Group:
o.ViewObject.Transparency = 45
import math
def set_camera(az, el, margin=1.04):
"""Orthographic camera looking at the whole model from the front, az to the right, el above."""
a, e = math.radians(az), math.radians(el)
tv = V(math.sin(a) * math.cos(e), -math.cos(a) * math.cos(e), math.sin(e)) # towards the viewer
d = tv * -1
right = d.cross(V(0, 0, 1)).normalize()
up = right.cross(d).normalize()
m = App.Matrix(right.x, up.x, -d.x, 0, right.y, up.y, -d.y, 0, right.z, up.z, -d.z, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
rot = App.Rotation(m)
bb = None
for o in doc.Objects:
if o.TypeId == "Part::Feature" and o.ViewObject.Visibility:
bb = o.Shape.BoundBox if bb is None else bb.united(o.Shape.BoundBox)
corners = [V(x, y, z) for x in (bb.XMin, bb.XMax) for y in (bb.YMin, bb.YMax) for z in (bb.ZMin, bb.ZMax)]
us = [c.dot(right) for c in corners]
vs = [c.dot(up) for c in corners]
cu, cv = (min(us) + max(us)) / 2, (min(vs) + max(vs)) / 2
centre = right * cu + up * cv + d * (bb.Center.dot(d))
hgt = max(max(vs) - min(vs), (max(us) - min(us)) * H / W) * margin
cam = view.getCameraNode()
cam.orientation.setValue(*rot.Q)
pos = centre + tv * 8000
cam.position.setValue(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z)
cam.height.setValue(hgt)
cam.focalDistance.setValue(8000)
cam.nearDistance.setValue(100)
cam.farDistance.setValue(32000)
Gui.updateGui()
set_camera(AZ, EL)
base = os.path.join(OUTDIR, "inline-qc-station-annotated-base.png")
view.saveImage(base, W, H, "White")
cam = view.getCameraNode()
pos = cam.position.getValue()
inv = cam.orientation.getValue().inverse()
hgt = cam.height.getValue()
def project(p):
c = inv.multVec(coin.SbVec3f(p.x - pos[0], p.y - pos[1], p.z - pos[2]))
s = H / hgt if W >= H else W / hgt
return [W / 2 + c[0] * s, H / 2 - c[1] * s]
out = {"size": [W, H], "anchors": []}
for key, p, title, desc in ANCHORS:
out["anchors"].append({"key": key, "xy": project(p), "title": title, "desc": desc})
# check image: the same view with a magenta ball on every anchor (shows position and occlusion)
balls = []
for key, p, *_ in ANCHORS:
b = doc.addObject("Part::Feature", "Marker_" + key)
b.Shape = Part.makeSphere(9, p)
b.ViewObject.ShapeColor = (1.0, 0.0, 1.0)
b.ViewObject.LineColor = (1.0, 0.0, 1.0)
balls.append(b)
Gui.updateGui()
view.saveImage(os.path.join(OUTDIR, "_markers-check.png"), W, H, "White")
# markers alone, nothing in front of them: exact screen positions (camera unchanged)
_vis = {o.Name: o.ViewObject.Visibility for o in doc.Objects if o.TypeId == "Part::Feature"}
for o in doc.Objects:
if o.TypeId == "Part::Feature" and not o.Name.startswith("Marker_"):
o.ViewObject.Visibility = False
for b in balls:
b.ViewObject.Visibility = True
Gui.updateGui()
view.saveImage(os.path.join(OUTDIR, "_markers-only.png"), W, H, "White")
for n, v in _vis.items():
if not n.startswith("Marker_"):
doc.getObject(n).ViewObject.Visibility = v
for b in balls:
doc.removeObject(b.Name)
for o in doc.getObject("Enclosure").Group:
o.ViewObject.Transparency = 55 if o.Name not in ("GuardRejectFront", "GuardRejectTop") else 75
for o in doc.Objects:
if o.TypeId == "Part::Feature":
o.ViewObject.Visibility = True
_vp.SetBool("ShowNaviCube", _navi_before)
_vp.SetBool("UseNavigationAnimations", _anim_before)
_vp.SetBool("EnablePreselection", _presel_before)
json.dump(out, open(os.path.join(OUTDIR, "_anchors.json"), "w", encoding="utf-8"), ensure_ascii=False, indent=1)
print("saved", base)