hey guys just connecting my toolchanger up now and thinking on the best way to control it
my main question is how can i move a step motor independently to the rest of the axis so i can preload stuff ready for a quick toolchange. i read the joints can be unlinked to the axis's and trajectory generator i think and possibly controlled with a limit 4 component which andy wrote. this is the big change to joints in 2.8 https://forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxcnc-questions/35643-making-some-axes-independent-of-the-motion-controller?start=20 anyway let me know what you guys think. I will just explain the rest of the toolchanger below for those interested. there are three motors which i have changed to servos. to make things reliable and controllable i have a main magazine on the side of machine with 80 tools (3ton) and then a tool transfer system to rotate the tools 90 degrees ready for the tool arm to swap tools in spindle. to save time i definitely want to have the magazine preloading tools i think i am currently going to use the carousel component for the magazine. with step and direction to servo motor. which will allow proloading mag easy with the tool prepare pins and the actual toolchange arm i will control with classic ladder as its just a state machine system the tool transfer system i would like to be able to rotate 90 degrees back and forth and then park it at 45 degrees in the parking zone cheers Andrew _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
