I would like to try making an expansion board for the coco users. Unforch, its about 1.5" bigger in the Y direction than my mill can move.
Its been suggested I make it with registration pins so that I can turn the board 180 after milling half of it, then milling the other half. Since the etch files are north of 6 megs each, with run times measured in days, would it be possible to tap into the limit detection in the TP somehow, to make it disable the stepgen and raise the tool 5 thou, but pretend its still running, so LCNC doesn't know the motor is stopped, then on the back stroke as it comes back into range, run the x axis to the new coord, lower the tool and resume cutting on the new line? Is this something that the gcode recode utility someone mentioned this past week could do, making 2 files out of 1 perhaps if the right magic incantation was used? Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://gene.homelinux.net:6309/gene> should be up! Carpe Daemon -- Seize the background process! -- From a Slashdot.org post A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/22/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=64545871&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
