On Sat, 15 May 2010 15:09:52 -0400, you wrote: > From the discussion I have heard there are many concerns about putting >this functionality into EMC2 plus it is viewed as being very difficult.
Jog during feedhold is in every commercial control I've used, it's a glaring omission in EMC. What concerns? - There is a wiki page - please post them there, so users are able to respond to them. Seems easier to play the "Nanny State" card to avoid the subject, rather than trying to discuss or solve any perceived problems, or implementing it. I've heard it's difficult, but not impossible, I can't really comment on that, I am not a programmer and don't understand the innards of EMC. It's a pity pause (feed hold), doesn't behave like tool change, it would be easy to implement then - then again, perhaps it does, I wouldn't know where to look though ;) Les' tool change jog fix was posted to this thread on 17th March by Hubert Bahr. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.user/17898/match= It works very well, I've used it many hundreds of times since last year without incident, in fact I couldn't use my router under EMC without it. Splitting files into one for each tool or adding a tool touch off device were proposed as the de facto fixes. Les's fix is elegant and simple to use. When the tool change dialogue box pops up, you click on the axis screen to get focus, then jog, zero tool or whatever you like, when finished just click OK on the manual tool change box to continue code from the line following the M6. Interesting to jog well away then continue, DRO's track any jogged position and the return moves are quite predictable. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
