For lathes (at least) it would be nice to have linuxcnc maintain status on wear offset. As you said it can be done but it very clunky and because it's done in remap, it's hard for GUI designers to rely on such a nonstandard API.
As far as lathes go, tool position, tool offset and tool wear are all separate things, that can be mixed. for instance, you can use multiple tool offsets (one at a time) on a single tool position. So while tool number could be used to describe different physical tool, programming while you really only call tool position. - it's the operators job to make sure the tools in the turrets coincide to whats required in the program. Or at least thats the way it works when I used the cnc lathe at work. I'm sure more modern controls have many proprietary ways. Chris ________________________________ From: andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> Sent: June 22, 2022 2:09 PM To: EMC developers <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] tool database in python On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 at 04:15, Feral Engineer <theferalengin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to see a wear comp along with cutter radius/diameter, while > we're on that subject. That's do-able with LinuxCNC is it is, though it's slightly clunky. Basically G43.2 allows you to add as many other H-number offsets as you want. There is a remap config for it here: https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/master/configs/sim/axis/lathe-fanucy A tool database would, probably, sum the offsets according to the desired scheme as part of the query? -- 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 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
