Greetings all; This bit of code that I will use to cut a 2nd copy of the tool carousel later today, make use of the G92 so that I can position the machine external to a subroutine, but the subroutine uses it to make it think its home for the duration of the call, turning on both the G92 x0.0 Y0.0 and the tool comp G41 inside the sub, then restoring both before exiting the subroutine. Greatly simplicates the code that way.
On the sim-axis on this machine, the white backtrace is drawn correctly, but when the code is executed, all the red tracing is piled up about the center of the code's home at x0y0. It should IMO follow the white, original backtrace but doesn't. This doesn't occur when the code is shipped to the machine that will do the carving as all 3 of those are running a 2.8.?? just updated again this morning. So my question then, is can this fix in the 2.8 base be backported to the 2.7.2 sim? It would ease my confusion in developing code on this machine that will do as expected when shipped to the machine that will actually run it. Tool carousel update. I did make an alu copy of the tool carousel plate, but when I made the D shape that would carry 6 tools in a 10 tools around the circle pattern, the D cutoff at the rear was too close to the end holes, and trimmed them such that a tool could be jiggled out if it was turned to the new pocket too smartly. So I have raised the diameter of the cutout by 50 thou, and added another 5 degrees to the ends of the arc, which should leave enough alu to properly hold the tools in the end pockets. There is just enough alu in a 4" wide piece to do that. Beats touring all the scrap metal places looking for a big enough piece. AND it can be done on my machinery without needing a bigger rotary table. I do have a 4" motorized, but its a backlash ridden piece of junk. But after having made the 2nd one, and then spending an hour or more shaving out the ID to fit the tool, and I drive a 1/2 drill rod into it for its rotating axle, a test fit on the side of the machine discloses that its holding the tools way to close together, the stub of the tool in the adjacent pocket does not clear the spindle housing. So I have a wheel for a 6 pocket changer that can only use 3 tools. Loverly. However, 3 tools will get me thru quite a bit of this project, so I am inclined to keep on building it. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
