Thinking of soft limits - how difficult would it be to implement 
soft-limits per tool? This would mainly be applicable for the Z axis so 
on a mill you can't stuff the cutter into the table or on a lathe you 
can't stuff the tool in the chuck. That one in particular makes one hell 
of a mess - BTDT.

On a lathe setting the Z+ limit would be handy as well so you can't run 
into the tailstock. Hitting the tailstock can get very ugly if you are 
holding a large part.

I do a lot of one-offs so as the more safeties the better. The way I see 
it working is that you jog the tool to within a hair of the danger zone 
and hit a 'set soft limit' button which stores the position in the tool 
table.

Les

micges wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> With reference to today question about soft limits pins, Is there reason 
> that they aren't removed?
> Now it's possible to change soft limit without restarting EMC, so maybe 
> there is any design to make those pin usable again?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Michael
> 

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