Re: [Emc-users] Shutdown during milling

2008-06-25 Thread Andrew Ayre
Thanks Jonathan, Great idea! I'll give that a try. Yesterday I ran EMC2 all day and it didn't shut down. G... Andy Jonathan / Hydra wrote: You could also test running prime95 in stress test mode to try to see if there's a hardware failure, it will compute mersenne primes and compare

[Emc-users] AXIS Tool Status Line

2008-06-25 Thread Kirk Wallace
I am having a little trouble getting a handle on using AXIS and the tool table on my lathe. I have eight tool positions, and sometimes up to three tools at a position. I call a tool by, TxM6 G43Hxx My tool table is: POCKET FMS ZOFFSET XOFFSET DIAMETER FRONTANGLE BACKANGLE ORIENTATION 1

Re: [Emc-users] AXIS Tool Status Line

2008-06-25 Thread Jeff Epler
The AXIS status line displays tool information for the currently loaded tool, which can be different from the tool length offset in effect from G43. You can better observe the behavior in MDI. For instance, after each of the following commands, information about the loaded tool is displayed;

Re: [Emc-users] AXIS Tool Status Line

2008-06-25 Thread Andre' Blanchard
At 02:21 PM 6/25/2008, you wrote: Kirk Wallace wrote: That's how I determined that I was getting what I needed, but I was expecting the tool status line to reflect the tool data with any active modifications like offset applied. Without putting allot of thought into it, it seems that TxM6