On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Jon Elson wrote: > I've been thinking about how to best deal with CNC control of spindle > speed on a machine with manually-changed belts and gears. > I think I can rig optical sensors for the belt that would report what > belt ratio is set. Detecting the position of the backgear handle is > easy. So, the question is what to do when the belt/gear ratio is > inappropriate for the requested Sxxxx speed? The most optimum would be > a message pops up saying "Backgear is engaged, can't reach 2720 RPM, > press R to resume when problem is corrected." That is most likely not > easy to do with the current EMC2 setup.
Maybe I'm being too simplistic, but couldnt you just modify the mazak gear change hal/ladder to turn on a pyVCP warning light or something? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
