You should be able to simulate a probe in your sim HAL file. A comparator looking at axis position and driving the probe input true when the position is above (or below) a specific value....
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015, at 08:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > In playing with some code I'll be using later today to carve some wood, I > have a problem with running it on the simulator, no probe contacts > available. > > How hard would it be to add a 4 (or more) axis lookup table reference to > the G38.2 probing routine, so I could set the locations where a > simulated probe contact could be made? > > IIRC it can open a file (probeopen filename.ext) for writing to record > what its doing on a real machine, so how about a named file for reading > that contains the contact points it would trigger on when simulating? > > The reason for the named file is so I can spec two different contact > locations as I contact 2 inside faces and the bottom of 1/2 a brass cube > for one tool, and just a piece of pcb to reset the tool length by > diddling z in the g55 mapping the rest of this nearly 400 LOC file uses > for the 2nd tool. > > That would be best handled by named files, one for each contact assembly > on the jig. > > This would be handier than bottled beer for the simulator version IMO. > > Any chance? > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers -- John Kasunich [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
