On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 15:52 -0700, Terry Christophersen wrote: > You could just do this: > Put a M00 on the line right before the TxM6 line. > When the machine stops at the M00 hit the esc key > Now jog around,change tools and touch off. reload the tool table. > I will assume that you are using AXIS so now right click on the > TxM6 line and it will start from there. > > I dont think all that other stuff of windows popping up and answering > questions would be easier than what I just described. > > Terry
I'm using the skeleton.ngc file to test with: http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=emc2.git;a=blob;f=nc_files/skeleton.ngc;h=1c29ef229834b2b5f7c03faaa86d7d0d1a19ecac;hb=HEAD it has the the M00 pauses and when I hit Esc, it exits the current program run, so I would need to do a run from line (as I see you mentioned above) on a new program run in order to "resume". If I had several tool changes to do, this could get tricky, especially after working twelve hour shifts, six days a week for three months (been there) or after doing nothing on any CNC for several months and getting a rush job (done that). Your method seems reasonable, but I'll need to play with it some more to get a better understanding of how well it works with different situations such as with conditional codes and other "run from line" problems. Thanks for the tip Terry. I think Jon mentioned he just breaks his code into a separate file for each tool. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
