On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:00:18 +0100, you wrote: >> The inability to feed hold and do other thing like, stop spindle, jog >> away to clear chips, or change an insert and re zero tool and then just >> press cycle start and continue are a show stopper. I've spoken to many >> business associates over the last few months and every one said they >> would not consider a control system without this. >> >EMC can do all this, u just need to know how to operate the control. if >you can do this on a fanuc 6/10M or newer you can do it on EMC. >just pause program. job away to where ever. stop spindle >do what ever >restart spindle in MDI just like u would have to on fanuc. reload H >offset if needed >then switch back to program pick run from line when in place away you go. > >its how we have to do it on our fanuc 10 so its no show stoper for us.
Fanuc 6 or10 ???? Ancient 80's technology and absolutely nothing to aspire to. Most of my contacts run 16/18/21 which are streets ahead of that obsolete stuff. I believe they are up to 31 or so at the moment ;) Please tell me how you feed hold mid program, stop spindle, jog away from the work, do whatever you need to, then press cycle start and continue in EMC without doing a "Stop, note the line number then run from current line"? I've asked before and I've been told it's impossible because of the interpreter, and it would need a major rewrite? Quote "The feedhold HAL input merely causes the motion controller to stop the motors in a controlled way, it doesn't change modes to allow manual/MDI movement." If you have a work around I'd be very pleased to hear about it. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
