My mill isn't fully functional yet and I neglected to realize the
ramifications of this. A bracket I needed to make required a tool
change, so I decided to just do it manually. I checked the program by
lowering the knee and single stepping through the program, which at the
time seemed okay. I
Kirk,
I ran into the same problem with the popup message about ... I forget the exact
message but I rammed my carriage into my rails because the popup took focus
from the main window and I clicked on the main window trying to hit the e stop
button but it was not possible. I was not familiar
changed.
There's my .02x10^-23 - YMMV.
Greg
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From: John Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] E-stop Surprise
Kirk
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 09:12 -0400, Greg Michalski wrote:
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it can do to the machine (or you) if things go awry. I wonder - did your
program actually specify a new tool (ie m6 t02) or just an m6 with you
knowing what tool it needed next. My mill stops on the M6 T2 that was
Kirk Wallace wrote:
My mill isn't fully functional yet and I neglected to realize the
ramifications of this. A bracket I needed to make required a tool
change, so I decided to just do it manually. I checked the program by
lowering the knee and single stepping through the program, which at the
I agree with Jon:
You really HAVE to have a hardware E-stop!
The business with the pointer focus on the GUI is pretty
dangerous, and I run into it all the time.
'In the Beginning' I just used the E-Stop input pin from the HAL,
but I was wondering if this is safe enough so I now added a
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Wallace
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:46 AM
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Subject: [Emc-users] E-stop Surprise
My mill isn't fully functional yet and I neglected to realize the
ramifications of this. A bracket I needed to make
I agree with John:
I don't think anyone is saying that you should not have a hardwired e-stop.
John
On 14 Jun 2008 at 20:47, Rob Jansen wrote:
I agree with Jon:
You really HAVE to have a hardware E-stop!
The business with the pointer focus on the GUI is pretty
That will suffer from the same loss of focus as the normal Axis e-stop when a
popup
screen is open...
John
On 14 Jun 2008 at 13:25, noel wrote:
You can add an E-stop button to axis with pyvcp.
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Check out the new
I've got two big ole Allen-Bradley push buttons wired in series.
One in easy reach on each side of the machine.
They're the pull and twist to close and push to open type.
They're in the AC mains circuit so operation is nearly instantaneous.
They control power to the router, motors and controller,
Kirk, and others doing manual tool changes.
I add an M00 after the M6 line as a second chance in case something is just not
right after a tool change.
Case in point. The operator had set the Kwik-Switch spindle spanner down on
the machine table after the tool change in a spot the tool would
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