Igor Chudov wrote: > I have a Haas 5C rotary indexer. It can be programmed (kind of like > you program a VCR) to perform a angular motion upon pressing of a > button. It also has a facility of a "remote button", so that the > button can be "pressed" by the CNC control. > > My question is what are the facilities in EMC to handle this sort of > thing -- "pressing" a button on an indexer. > > Say, if I used it to make a involute gear with an involute gear cutter. > There are available M-codes that can be linked to an external operation.
See http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gcode_main.html#sec:M62-to-M65 If the indexer sends back a "done" signal that can be linked to an M66 to wait for completion of the index operation. If there is no complete output, then you can just program a wait for the indexer to finish. Appropriate HAL lines can link the output of the M62 to a digital output. A DC SSR can be used to send the contact closure to the indexer's input. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
