On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 05:45:49PM -0400, Gary Corlew wrote:
> Nice looking machine Chris! Do you have any other pics of it?. The Haas
> machine with side tool changers work exactly like you describe, you look at
> what pocket# the tool is in that you want and then go to a settings screen
> to find the actual tool number
I don't have any other pictures of the finished machine currently...
I should make some videos too.
In EMC2 you get a tool table that looks like this:
POCKET TOOLNO LENGTH DIAMETER COMMENT
0 0 +0.000000 0.000000 no tool
1 3 -2.357940 0.250000 1/4 2 flute ball end
2 2 -1.987921 0.125000 tiny engraving tool
3 7 +0.000000 0.000000
4 1 -2.424424 0.750000 3/4 2 flute end mill
5 5 +0.000000 0.000000
6 4 -1.464098 0.750000 3/4 roughing
...
Pocket 0 is the spindle. When you load a tool, the tool table is
updated and rewritten. You can look at the tool table any time to see
where everything is.
You do not need to have a tool 0. There is nothing special about it.
This means that in a 16 pocket carousel machine you can have 17 tools
if you don't mind that there is always something in the spindle.
Chris
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