Thanks again for the words of encouragement the other day, guys. I've been thinking, which has always been dangerous for me. I need to bounce my thoughts off of some smart people, to set me straight.
First let be beg forgiveness if this is inappropriate, or if I pull this thread off topic... It seemed dead anyway. As I mentioned, I have not received the machine yet, so all of this is theory at this point. The router is a Probotix Nebula, and will come ready to make chips out of the crate, but I have a lot to learn in preparation and trying to figure it out on my own is starting to hurt. I am having a tool length switch installed and it will come configured with a tool changing routine. The routine is called by a o100 command. I am also having a 4th axis rotary installed. This is where I am confusing myself. I haven't purchased the cam yet, but do believe it will be vectric aspire. This means the the rotary work will have to be wrapped around I believe the x axis, in this case, at the post processor. I also want to use the makers guide featured in the attached video, foe most of my work, and will need to pull off all the custom buttons and code to make that happen. Am I correct in thinking that all the coding I'll need to do will be in absolute co-ordinates, and not affected by the gcode that is wrapped around the x axis. Like if I set the rotary to be say a G55 work co-ordinate, and run a wrapped gcode file that has tool changes in it, when a tool change routine is called the machine will go to the tool change position, wait for me, do the routine and go back to G55 and start running the wrapped code again? Or, is it going to sit there after the new tool length offset and spin the A axis instead of travelling back the the work offset origin? Here is a link to the code Probotix uses: http://www.probotix.com/wiki/index.php/Automatic_Tool_Length_Sensor I apologize for all the background, but don't know enough to know how much info you might need, or if you get these "newbie" questions all the time. I do appreciate any time taken to help, Scott On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 27 March 2015 17:42:14 andy pugh wrote: > > On 27 March 2015 at 21:35, Scott Salrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just need to find a way to make it work in linuxcnc. > > > > It isn't magic. And you won't need any C. > > Yeah, if I can write the code to do that so can he. > I do it in pieces, like I think theres a holefinder.ngc on my web page > that can be edited to work with that jig. > > Probably a poor tutorial, but it works well enough for drilling pcb holes > halfway thru the board, turning the board over and drilling it half way > from the other side with the holes meeting in the middle w/o a visible > offset. > > Applied offsets are TBD by the user though. Here its repeatable to under > a thou variation. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, > sponsored > by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for > all > things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs > to > news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the > conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
