Hi On Samstag, 11. April 2020, 05:54:54 CEST Robert Ellenberg wrote: > Reinhard, that's a great point. It looks like there's a clear value in > keeping the select / change steps separate if your ATC needs to pre-load a > tool. This is what I meant by Fanuc-style tool changes > <https://www.cnccookbook.com/g-code-tool-change-m06/>, where on some > systems the T command triggers both select tool and change tool.
I had a quick look at the docs from cnc-school. I don't have much experience with lathe, I'm dedicated to mills So you are right. On Siemens-cnc for lathe there are no M6 commands. But this it true for "simple" lathe only. So if linuxcnc would like to offer the same, it should be limited to lathe and for so be an ini-entry. Robert, sorry for my hard words. My thinking is around multiaxis machines and inconsistency should not be desirable. But there are special cases, that allow exceptions :) ... by the way: the distinction between tool-definition and tool-change is not Fanuc specific. In Heidenhain you have a "Tool-Def" and "Tool-Call" ... cheers Reinhard _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
