Hello, I was wondering if anybody else than me uses tool heads with more than one tool with linuxcnc.
I have been doing this for years now and using offsets added and subtracted to the axis motor-pos-cmd and motor-pos-fb pins in the hal layer. This is a picture of such a multi tool head for a carton samplemaker plotter. http://picpaste.com/b8c76581ae10a7c2870a704ca07c4764.jpg Would it be possible to add support to linuxcnc for coordinate systems that move the tool head when switching for one coordinate system to another? The CAD programs used with this type of machine usually program the machine as if the tools were all at the same position and use a tool change to switch between tools and coordinate systems. The switch between coordinate systems moves the tool head for a specified offset so that, e.g. tool2 is at the position for tool1 at the time of its use. BR Max. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
