Greetings all; As I work my way thru about a 2 lb coffee can full of taps of various sizes and conditions, one thing seems to be a potential cause of mistakes more than anything else.
I have this all in one file, with a small stack of vars at the top of the file that get edited on a per run basis, and it strikes me I could have a faster workflow if instead of continuely editing the file, setting a single var to 1 and the others to 0 to control what it does "this" run, if instead of a stack of vars, I had say 4 toggle switches on a panel, with the state of the switches replacing the vars in the code. Wired up in the hal file to the digital outputs of motion. As long as I had the i/o pins, available, it makes sense that in mounting the tool or the part, if I could just flip a switch to enable the drilling for the grub screws, or another to enable the tapping of the holes just drilled (insert a 3rd switch for some other function like machining the other end of the tap hat to accept the 4mm cap screw in the side which then becomes the locking key), add switches till out of inputs, easy enough to do with a 5i25 since it only has ten, but you get the idea. Am I the only one who has considered doing this? Surely not. So how has it worked for others that have done something similar. The only editing then is for the taps #<_tpmm> since there is at least 5 sizes of grub screws depending on the size of the taps shank and squarish butt end. So, like Mel NcDaniels, stand up and testify. How did it work for you IOW? FWIW, I did break a 4mm0.7 tap a couple days ago, I had had the top off the motor for some reason a month or more ago, and forgot to retighted the set screws in the encoders elastomer coupling. It started slipping and crushed the tap. Now I recall, the optical cable was pinched leaving the bottom of the motor cover and I was losing the index pulse. New cable was the fix. -- 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
