If I understand this say you have T100 as -0.001" in diameter you can do G43.2 H100 to make your tool effective diameter 0.001" smaller for G41/42 paths?
JT On 5/29/2014 1:59 PM, Chris Radek wrote: > I think the general solution to the specific problem of wanting > separate geometry and wear offsets for lathe tools is to allow the > gcode to request any number of tool offsets simultaneously. > > I've implemented that in a very simple way in the cradek/multi-tlo > branch on git.linuxcnc.org, and here is the basic documentation for > this feature, as implemented: > > To use tool 1 with the sum of offsets 1 and 10, program: > T1 M6 > G43 (or G43 H1: replace any existing offset with T1's) > G43.2 H10 (also add in the T10 offset) > > You can sum an arbitrary number of offsets by calling G43.2 > more times. There are no built-in assumptions about which > numbers represent geometry and which are wear, or that you > should have only one of each. > > Note that having multiple offsets active interacts with "touch off" > in the UIs (aka G10 L10/L11) in a possibly-unexpected way, because > those write only to the loaded tool's offset. (This was also > previously the case when you are in a situation like T1M6 G43H2, or > G43.1 mode) > > Frankly I don't know how that can be fixed without loss of > flexibility. I think if you are using multiple offsets maybe you > ought to be editing the tool table directly to keep them straight. > > I'd welcome any comments about this scheme, except please note that > I already know this is not how Fanuc does it. I do not like the > restrictions and assumptions built in to their scheme and I believe > this implements a superset of it. (But to our remap experts: could > you use remap to emulate it?) > > Chris > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. > www.restlet.com/download > http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. www.restlet.com/download http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
