Robert, Chris Morley has a base tool change Classic Ladder program that sounds like what is being talked about here It requires homing of the carosel on power up though. Has a counter that keeps track of carosel position (CW CCW), one position has a home switch.
Later Terry On Mon May 4 1:47 , 'Alex Joni' <[email protected]> sent: > > >> On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 18:28 +0100, robert wrote: >>> i just asked on IRC about the var file, cradek said you cant realy do it >>> and looking through the docs i cant see any ref to setting a parameter >>> in atxt file from hal, unless one makes there own hal comp file >> >> I guess I never worried about getting it from HAL since tool number is >> an EMC global variable. You mentioned iocontrol and that system does >> reference it but then so does emcsh, emcrsh and other stuff that was >> more common years ago. >> >> When I was working with mini or tkemc I wrote a bit of a process that >> saved it just like any other variable is saved to that file. >> >> Rayh >> > >For a simple toolchanger, you are correct. You can just save the tool number >in the spindle, and reload that after a restart. >For a more complex toolchanger (like Robert asked for) you also need to >remember the carusel number that's currently in the tool-change position. >That number is probably also in the status struct, but I'm not sure it's the >best place to remember it. > >The whole tool changing part needs some rework, as it's designed to be >specific for a certain type of tool-changer. (e.g. a rack toolchanger won't >work). > >Regards, >Alex > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations >Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of >expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry >leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf >and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ---- Msg sent via CableONE.net MyMail - http://www.cableone.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
