On Feb 3 2013 4:47 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2013/2/3 EBo <e...@sandien.com>: >> Long story short I am looking at building a project that would >> likely >> work best with EDM. I am looking at building a custom EDM head for >> a a >> CNC router that is currently configured for 0.0001" step. >> >> What I am trying to figure out is how to configure EMC so that the >> electronics can return a "pause" signal until it has burned burned >> through the requested material, then continue on the tool path. >> >> It is straight forward to write this in custom code, but I would >> prefer >> not to have to rewrite everything from scratch, and just set up a >> LinuxCNC configuration for it. Any ideas on how to do that? I'm >> drawing a blank... > > Have You considered using motion.feed-hold pin? If I understand You > correctly, it seems like a perfect fit for this case - enable it with > M53 P1 in code and attach motion.feed-hold to whatever input from > Your > electronics. And motion will be paused, whenever the input is true. > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/motion.9.html
Viesturs, that looks perfect! Now I just need to fire out how to rewire the router, build the EDM head, and set up the configuration ;-) Unfortunately, it will likely be a little while before I can break out all the time :-( Thanks again, and I will post back when I get a chance to build this up. EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
