> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Chris Morley > <chrisinnana...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > actually you can command the spindle over modbus > Any pointer in that direction? > > or toolchange without ladder, > same here, please? > > and if you mean two end switches for gantry homing you can do that too in > > HAl. > No, I have a machine with two switches in sequence, it used to run > full-speed to first, > then crawl to the second and home. >
ahh yes that would be useful! since homing doesn't honour overrides there is no work around. You would need to change the guts of linuxcnc. but again nothing to do with HAL. If the HAL component doesn't do what you want you have to write another one that will. In the case of homing I'm pretty sure that is fairly complicated as it is more then just changing linuxcnc's motion component - homing goes a level deeper at least. That would be a good feature to have homing honour overrides while in course search mode. Is there a reason you can't use the regular way of homing ? search fast, hit switch, back off, search slow? I'm thinking maybe you home to a hard stop so don't want to slam into that at high speed.. spindle control over modbus: gs2.vdf is a component just for that but is specific to automation direct VDFs http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/html/examples/gs2_example.html I don't have an example of tool change without ladder. It would involve creating a component with comp or C or python. Chris M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
