On 3/16/2010 4:04 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:16:50AM +0000, Andy Pugh wrote: > >> On 15 March 2010 22:54, Slavko Kocjancic<esla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> I just don't understand why is that hard to implement jog when paused or >>> tool change. >>> >> It's a mystery to me too. >> >> However, it should be easy to add a probe line after a toolchange, and >> with a touch-off plate mounted on the bed that would also be a labour >> saver too. >> > That was approximately my recurrent thought as I followed this thread. > > To provide more room for a manual tool change, why not program a > retraction and move to above the touch-off plate? On completion of the > tool change, we probe for length of the (collet-held) tool, then resume > with the resultant one-time tool offset. > > There is then no need for any jogs, there's elbow room for the tool change, > and the tool is measured to boot. (I'm rather hoping emc2 can do the probing > automatically. I haven't got that far yet.) > > >> (I think there are issues with finding a safe path back to the >> original position with jog-while-paused, but there are so many other >> ways to crash the tool that I can't see one more way being that much >> of an issue) >> > Using programmed moves to and from the manual "tool-change station" > seems to be quicker, as well as avoiding loss of position information. > > Now, what am I missing? ;-) > > Erik > > I was thinking about the same thing for tool changes.... jogging a machine around to change tools.... doesn't seem like a good idea. I love tool probing. It is a huge time saver.
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