On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 15:14, Rene Hopf via Emc-developers <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 1. > Fix pocket numbers > I rebased my pocket number fix to 2.8, and it seems to work ok. Can you describe the differences? There have been many iterations at this. I don't have a tool changer, but I think that at the moment the HAL pins are correct, but some things (such as the stdglue routines) are still wrong. > If you don’t use a tool changer or the tool table, this does not affect you. Maybe you should try repeating that more loudly it didn't seem to get through. > 2. > Reload tool on startup. > Currently only random tool changers reload the old tool on startup. > I think this is a bug, and dangerous. > It was requested by so many people to change it, that Norbert even > implemented it in gmoccapy, imho it does not belong in the gui. I think this is definitely the way that the system should work. Maybe there should be an option to disable homing with a tool loaded? > 3. > Retain G43 > Almost anybody that has ever used any other controller, has crashed a tool > with linuxcnc due to this behaviour. I have never understood why LinuxCNC assumes that you might want to change a tool and not apply the offsets. I would expect that it would cause few problems, as in most cases the scenario will only be a redundant G43 in the code, rather than unexpected behaviour because G43 is applied unexpectedly. One situation where I could imagine there being a problem would be remaps with auto tool length measurement. Those are all user-implemented, and we can have no idea how they behave. I feel that at the least this should be switchable with an INI entry. (And it also shouldn't be a "features" bitmask.) (Which reminds me... https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues/712 ) -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
