Manual toolchanging here. I have a wireless tool setter already wired in, and an XHC-HB04 wireless pendant. I'd like to press the "Probe-Z" button and have it zero the work coords on the touch.
But, just to complicate things, I'd really like to have this deadman, so you must hold down the Probe-Z button or it will abort the process immediately and fail to set the Z-home. There are others using the machine and it's quite easy to forget to put the tool probe down or fail to align the tool directly over the probe properly. This is the sort of thing people readily say "oh crap!" and promptly forget to go looking for the Stop button. It's a large router and the physical e-stop may be some distance away, and if you used that it's gonna unhome the whole machine coord system. I could also reasonably expect some to "fix" it by just pausing which actually leaves its move pending. So there's a big advantage to deadmanning that button. I have coded up other XHC buttons in the HAL to do simple things (home button=G0 X0 Y0). I do see Probe solutions that call a g-code .ngc file but that can't deadman AFAIK. Is there a reasonably practical way to do this? Danny ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
