On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:49:51 +0000 (UTC), you wrote:
>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? No :( Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
