On 5/29/14 14:37 , John Thornton wrote:
> If I understand this say you have T100 as -0.001" in diameter you can do
> G43.2 H100 to make your tool effective diameter 0.001" smaller for
> G41/42 paths?

That's how I read it.

And you can say "G43.2 H100" twice to make it 0.002" smaller.

Seems handy.


>
> JT
>
> On 5/29/2014 1:59 PM, Chris Radek wrote:
>> I think the general solution to the specific problem of wanting
>> separate geometry and wear offsets for lathe tools is to allow the
>> gcode to request any number of tool offsets simultaneously.
>>
>> I've implemented that in a very simple way in the cradek/multi-tlo
>> branch on git.linuxcnc.org, and here is the basic documentation for
>> this feature, as implemented:
>>
>>     To use tool 1 with the sum of offsets 1 and 10, program:
>>     T1 M6
>>     G43 (or G43 H1: replace any existing offset with T1's)
>>     G43.2 H10 (also add in the T10 offset)
>>
>>     You can sum an arbitrary number of offsets by calling G43.2
>>     more times.  There are no built-in assumptions about which
>>     numbers represent geometry and which are wear, or that you
>>     should have only one of each.
>>
>> Note that having multiple offsets active interacts with "touch off"
>> in the UIs (aka G10 L10/L11) in a possibly-unexpected way, because
>> those write only to the loaded tool's offset.  (This was also
>> previously the case when you are in a situation like T1M6 G43H2, or
>> G43.1 mode)
>>
>> Frankly I don't know how that can be fixed without loss of
>> flexibility.  I think if you are using multiple offsets maybe you
>> ought to be editing the tool table directly to keep them straight.
>>
>> I'd welcome any comments about this scheme, except please note that
>> I already know this is not how Fanuc does it.  I do not like the
>> restrictions and assumptions built in to their scheme and I believe
>> this implements a superset of it.  (But to our remap experts: could
>> you use remap to emulate it?)
>>
>> Chris
>>
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