On Saturday 16 April 2016 16:30:11 Danny Miller wrote: > What does this do, just skip toolchanges and state it's changed? > But only if it knows, from the previous run, that the requested tool is in the spindle.
> Problem being, if you have a file which changes tools, there will be > no opportunity to do so. The machine won't stop, right? If you have the correct code setup for manual tool change, it will stop, but its up to your gcode source to command the machine to go to the place where it has room enough to manually change the tool. Generally, I just run it up to about 1/2" below the z home switch. And of coarse the M5 to stop the spindle. > The machine will have many users, I should mention that. Quirks on > how to set up files, I can personally work that out, but it's a > problem for telling others. > > Then again, just saying "no toolchanges in a file, ever, not allowed" > is pretty simple. > > Danny > > On 4/16/2016 3:05 PM, Tomas Jarmolaitis wrote: > >> I am setting up a manual toolchange CNC router system. In the > >> past I've worked extensively with Mach3. > > > > Maybe you just need few lines in hal file: > > > > net tool-number <= iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number > > net tool-change-loopback iocontrol.0.tool-change => > > iocontrol.0.tool-changed > > net tool-prepare-loopback iocontrol.0.tool-prepare => > > iocontrol.0.tool-prepared > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Find and fix application performance issues faster with > Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance > insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It > resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your > free trial! > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
