thanks ken yeah I have had a pretty good look at the pathpilot forum stuff.
it looks doable just might take a bit of work. immediate plans are to get the cnc lathe going with stock linuxcnc and then probably change over to pathpilot. But definitely keen to try keep the IO control toolchange stuff from stock standard linuxcnc that would suck if I lost that and had to do some silly arduino stuff what was not real time and just a pain regards Andrew On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 12:32 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running on a stock Tormach PCNC770-3 and I have avoided any changes to > PP in order to be able to update to newer versions/bug fixes without > hassles. Since the source is available I have used it to reverse engineer > the interfaces to Tormach products including their pendant, SmartCool and > USBIO modules and use Arduino based clones of them. I haven't paid much > attention but I believe that others have reverse engineered the ATC > interface; I mostly do one-offs so an ATC is not critical for me. > > If you haven't already looked, go to https://forum.linuxcnc.org/pathpilot > for lots of information on using PP on non-Tormach hardware. > > -----Original Message----- > From: andrew beck <[email protected]> > Sent: November 5, 2020 4:26 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] pathpilot high speed machining > > awesome > > I have looked at it before > > thinking about using it on a slant bed lathe I have just not sure if I want > to go down that track of hacking it > > are you running it stock standard on a tormach machine or have you hacked > it > for your own retrofits? > > I am slightly concerned that I think they use a pwm style interface for the > toolchanger. I I would have to use a arduino or something to interface > with > that which sounds dodgy. this machine is 5 ton and I want things safe so > I > want access to the io control pins so I can use classic ladder and keep it > all within linuxcnc > > though probe basic lathe might be ready by the time I get to this > > regards > > Andrew > > > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 8:57 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Basically it is just LinuxCNC under the hood. Tormach funded a better > > trajectory planner, They have a added an attractive which includes > > easy to use routines for probing, surfacing, drilling in patterns, > > thread milling, support for their ATC, SmartCool (like a Haas PCool), > > etc. I've been using PP since their betas so feel free to ask about > > the nice things that have been added. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: andrew beck <[email protected]> > > Sent: November 5, 2020 2:46 PM > > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > > <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Emc-users] pathpilot high speed machining > > > > hey guys > > > > just had a look at path pilot and it looks like linuxcnc has a > > 1000block lookahead > > > > they also claim it is good for high speed machining > > > > just wondering how much of this is just stock linuxcnc and how much > > they have added > > > > cheers > > > > https://tormach.com/pathpilot-cnc-controller > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
