I am starting to work on getting EMC2 to control my Shizuoka tool changer. The physical interface is five command wires and one reset wire. The commands are carousel CW, carousel CCW, carousel Home, tool in, tool out. To invoke a command, a wire is held high until the ATC returns a reset (command done) signal. The reset signal is a 100ms pulse, which should be easy to catch in a servo-thread component. I would like to keep the component in real time because if a carousel move doesn't get handled quickly, the carousel will start moving to the next slot. The only way I can think of setting an ATC command HAL pin is to have an M100 shell script do a "halcmd setp summitATC.0.cw True". Is there a cleaner way to do this?
-- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC/EMC CNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending Craftsman AA 109 restoration Shizuoka ST-N/EMC CNC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
