On 3/16/2010 4:22 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:42:17 -0500, you wrote: > > > >> I'm really not a big fan of the idea of being allowed to jog around >> during a pause. Say someone is doing some internal boring bar work >> and they think their cutter is getting dull, they pause, jog the boring >> bar out of the hole, replace the insert and then resume. Do you really >> think the software is going to be able to put that boring bar back in place >> without a crash? >> > Funny you should say that, I did just that with Mach on Saturday. I did > a job run that required a blind 50mm deep 17mm dia bore, a shallow 19mm > counterbore and a 15mm long internal 2mm pitch thread. I did all the > drilling and boring in Mach and the threads only in EMC. I broke the > insert tip on one job (probably swarf build up), feed held, jogged out, > replaced the tip and continued without problem. I paused each job midway > after that, stopped the spindle, jogged away, blew out any swarf, and > resumed without incident. > > If Mach can do it, I'd have thought EMC should be able to be made to? > > Steve Blackmore > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > OK, I'm curious as to how you did that. Your tip was apparently engaged when you hit the pause as you probably heard the tip break? So you retracted away from the surface, jogged the tool out of the hole so you could get to it, changed the tip and then what? Did you jog the tool back into the hole in the center above the cutting point and then hit resume? I thought Mach3 did a linear move back to the last programmed position after a pause. So I would think that you would have to be in the hole to restart the program?
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