Yes sorry Andy We are on the same page.
I'm using the tool prepare pins I have done that on a few machines already and it works great. But I have never tried that with controlling a axis etc It's always been classic ladder or your carousel component. So I have never used gcode to do that. Or axis commands with tool prepare. And yes it's a random position toolchanger to On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, 14:27 andy pugh, <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 at 00:20, andrew beck <andrewbeck0...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hey the issue I have with controlling the axis with gcode is I think it > > will interfere with the main machine that is doing the cutting. > > I think that M6 always will, and that's to be expected. > > If this is a random toolchanger (I think anything with tool prep needs > to be) then I think that the trick is probably to drive the carousel > comp from the tool-prep-pocket and tool-prepare pins, and just let > that happen in the background. > > net tool-prep-num iocontrol.0.tool-prep-pocket carousel.0.pocket-number > net tool-prep-start iocontrol.0.tool-prepare carousel.0.enable > net tool-prep-done carousel.0.ready iocontrol.0.tool-prepared > > (off the top of my head, errors likely) > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
