A while back on this list was a discussion on switching EMC between automatic and manual mode that left me (a current Mach3 user, looking to switch to EMC) a bit confused. I don't do production work, most of my stuff is one off and tends to be oddly shaped which leads to some strange fixturing and clamping.
When running jobs in Mach I often pause or stop to clear chips, move clamps, look to make sure I generated the code right (love CAM but sometimes it does what you tell it and not what you want), grab lunch or refreshments and perform mandatory pit stops. When paused I almost always stop the spindle and sometimes manually jog the machine around. On tool changes I move the table to a convenient location, change the tool, manually touch off and reset the Z offset. For the kind of work I do its not worth it for me to preset tool lenghts. If I'm paused or on a tool change I just restart the spindle and resume. If I'm stopped I restart from the prior G0 or G1. Can I do this in EMC? Roger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
