On 11 July 2014 17:51, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > I'm speaking in generalities, but I think this is true for most > CNC lathes.
I think that VDI is a way to repeatably swap tools in a lathe changer. (And maybe some HSK variants) Though I don't think what I have done needs to be 100% generic, as the whole point is that the behaviour is encoded in Python and G-code files that can be altered without even having to re-start LinuxCNC. As it is at the moment the G-code can not directly set the tool-pocket-prepare pin, it always ends up taking tool-number and not pocket number. The Python prologue can easily set the tool-pocket-prepare pin, but to do that it needs to know how the tool number is encoded in the T-number. The changes are fairly small, I will push the demo config to the G43.2 branch this evening. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
