On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Ray Henry wrote: > (1) What you are describing was addressed when an attempt was made to > allow integrators the ability to set these behaviors by parameter > changes. I've argued for such things for years and a first stab at it > was made by Keith Rumley about three+ years ago on the BDI versions. > You could see his revisions in CVS.
Minor correction - The changes were made on a branch of the original EMC code. The bug fixes were merged in to the BDI-4 branch of emc2, but possibly not in to the main trunk. > IMO the proper way to handle these things will require a major rework > and expansion of the EMC2 task planning code. Offsets are predominantly in the realm of the interpreter and have little to do with the task planner. > (2) A related ability, suspending a program using abort or some such > then switching to manual and moving to allow the replacement of a broken > or worn tool, has been discussed at some length. A similar issue is > raised with auto tool wear sensing. Now this does require changes at the task planner level, and also in the trajectory planner - Manual moves & unplanned tool changes opens up a number of problems associated with tool offsets. > IMO there is a solution to this and several other "issues" but it would > require a significant revision of the interpreter code. There is/was an extensible interpreter being worked on that allowed for custom G/M codes via a config file - The intent was to provide different "personalities" to emulate various controls (i.e. Fanuc or Heidenhain) along with closer coupling of PLC functions.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users