This is our next hurdle with our Cincinatti Arrow 500 VMC. It has a carousel toolchanger where the head must raise and lower to load the tool. Still working on spindle orient but that will be the next step. Connor seems to think he has a solution for this but we have yet to try it out he is using remap too. Peace
Pete On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/22/2014 2:33 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 22 October 2014 19:02, Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 10/22/2014 1:40 PM, andy pugh wrote: > >>> Hmm, thinking about it, how hard would it be for CL to drive axes > >>> directly? Perhaps that would go a long way towards helping. > >> I think I have done what you are talking about. > >> > >> The limit3 component was key. > > That is one way, but I was meaning some sort of direct control of > > actual machine axes, such as moving the Z for a carousel or X and Y > > (and Z) for a rack. > > > > Admittedly the rack is now pretty simple with remapping. Perhaps what > > is really needed are a few documented examples of various styles of > > toolchanger. > > > > There is a rack example in sim/axis/remap, but I haven't tried it. (I > > don't actually have a toolchanger) > > Do you mean over-riding the machine axes to do the tool change while the > program is still running? > > Is this similar to the jog while paused problem, except that you are not > paused? > > Dave > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Pete Matos A and N Precision and Fabrication Maryville, Tennessee 865-236-8996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
