On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 06:17 +0000, Chris Morley wrote: > Hey Kirk > > Just cause I'm curious, Why didn't you use classicladder to select > tools from your turret? It has timers good to 100ms min.
Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about Classic Ladder, so I tend to use what I know. I have been trying to figure out if I should learn Classic Ladder, but it seems to me, that PLC's where a way to bring the old world of physical relay systems into the computer age. Since I don't come from that world, I don't see the point. Although, this statement may just go to show how little I know. > Then you could use the tool pins from emcmot to control the turret > -automating tool changes to use regular T and M codes,instead of using > M101- or you could use M101 to set a pin true to signal the ladder > program... The lathe turret tool change is not like a mill tool change. No interaction with the spindle is needed or wanted. All that happens is the turret rotates to expose the needed tool. So I'm thinking that m6 will not be used at all. Only the t word is needed, but I have not been able to find out what t actually does. (P. S. I forgot about the tool table. m6 may be needed to activate the current tool information.) Plus the actions taken when the interpreter reads a t word seem to be compiled in EMC, so are not subject to change, or at least for me at the moment. There does seem to be an "EMC from source how-to". > As I said i'm more curious then anything. Also I am Modifing > Classicladder for more features -so if there is a particular missing > feature I would love to know. > > I would bet you are just more comfortable with scripts! > > Chris Morley ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
