Chris Reynolds wrote: > I've been using EMC2 now for a while and I really like it. I just have a > couple of questions. A lot of the parts I'm making require tool changes, and > what I've found is that it would be really nice to have the program run a > section, then pause so I can jog the machine, change tools, touch off, then > resume the program. I've been using M00 to pause the program at different > points so I can change tools, however I have to actually stop the program in > order to jog the machine and do my tool change, then after I'm done I have to > touch off again, The latest development version of EMC2 is supposed to have this feature, but I don't think it has been widely tested. You would have to download the source and compile it to get this feature now. But, if you actually have to touch off the tool on each change, it is not efficient to do things that way. It is easier to set up a fixture where you can quickly swap the parts in and out and do all processes with the first tool before moving on to the second. If it is a one-time job, why have all the different tools run from one program? Just make a different program for each tool.
If you use end mill holders instead of ordinary collets, then you can swap tools in and have the tool length offsets pre-loaded in the tool table. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
