On Sunday 03 January 2021 05:45:31 Jérémie Tarot wrote: > Le sam. 5 sept. 2020 à 23:49, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> a écrit : > > ... But with my large and motley > > collection of taps, that will take a bigger tool table, which I'm > > waiting on. The same idea can be used on a mill, but in both cases > > in order to make the subroutine universal, I'll need 2 more data > > slots in the tool table to record where the probe is in regard to > > the tool/tap. > > Have a look at work done lately on tool table improvements in QtPyVCP, > you may find what you need about custom fields 😉 > That's a step in the right direction, but now I have to learn all the new settings. But, on closer inspection, I don't see anything that looks like it could be hijacked for XY offsets. TLO can take care of Z but still need an X and Y offset, two more vars. Unless the Given XY could be switched on and off. That could be made to work I think. Change (T#) to the probe which would have its XY offsets, do the probe and save that from the G38.2 or .4, then include that probe results in the gcode. My thoughts are to construct a probe to detect the depth of a hole to be tapped, so a g33.1 could be made to have a hard limit to the depth the tap is driven in. Ending the broken tap from hitting the bottom of the hole forever. I have proof of concept code running on the Sheldon already, but the lack of the ability to offset the x from holding a tap in a tap hat, to moving x to probe the hole is half the problem, and getting off my lazy duff and making that special tool holder is the other half. :) But I think I see a way to turn the probe into a tool table entry, similar to what could be done on the mill when using the camera for an edge locator.
> Not sure about number of tools... Presently 1000, but that seems more than sufficient to me. The cost of QC tool holders limits me to about 7 or 8 valid at any one time. Needed is some sort of a gage to setup a std tool. On my todo list but a ways down ATM. Thanks for alerting me to the new tool table, Jérémie, I appreciate it. Take care and stay well. 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
