On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Chris Radek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 05:38:36PM -0500, 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. > > Not an answer to your question exactly, but in case you don't know: > The git master version has direct support for locking rotary indexers. > You just use G0 to index. EMC commands "unlock" on a hal pin, waits > for a confirmation signal "is-unlocked", moves the axis to the new > position, clears the "unlock" pin, waits for "is-unlocked" to clear, > and then continues on with the next line of gcode. Likewise, homing > also unlocks the axis before homing it, and then relocks it in the > home position. So, you could just toss your rotary's control, and > not have to program rotary positions by hand etc. > > (I've got a servo rotary axis that needs exactly this to operate, but > I haven't hooked it up because I want an A axis capable of coordinated > motion to generate gears.)
Chris, I actually have a Ferguson R15 rotary indexer. I have no idea how it works, it was a good deal at auction. Do you know how those things work, do I need special cams for each operation (number of positions), or what? Anyway, the purpose f my original question was to get a Haas S5C indexer to work. Tangentially, this haas S5C has a stepper motor, how hard, practically speaking, would be to make it work using my PC as a control, if I am using PPMC. This would be in lieu of its original control box. Thanks i > > Chris > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
