In Axis 2.4.0, is it true that the tool table can have only 48-ish entries?
I'm drilling circuit boards from Eagle layouts, using a script that extracts all the holes, sorts them by drill diameter, then visits each set in nearest-neighbor order. The problem is that Eagle's part libraries have a bewildering variety of hole diameters, which means you can't tell which drills you need for any given board, even rounded off to the nearest 0.001 inch. I use Txxx M6 and the Axis manual toolchanger, so my "changer" has access to all the drills & mills in my cabinet. I figured I could shotgun the problem by simply listing all possible drill sizes from zero on up to about half an inch: larger than I'd want to drill with the Sherline, anyway. So I set up a tool table with 501 entries: T1000 P1000 Z1 D0.000 ... snippage ... T1020 P1020 Z1 D0.020 T1021 P1021 Z1 D0.021 T1022 P1022 Z1 D0.022 T1023 P1023 Z1 D0.023 T1024 P1024 Z1 D0.024 T1025 P1025 Z1 D0.025 ... snippage ... T1500 P1500 Z1 D0.500 The Z values are all 1 because I'm using a tool length probe to set the lengths on the fly. Unfortunately, Axis seems to truncate the tool table to about 48 entries. I'd expected that to not be a problem, because the doc gives this example: T99999 P99999 D23.75000 Z-0.3000000 ;You have a big tool changer Is there a user-level way to increase the maximum number of entries in the tool table? In practice, I use only a few drill sizes, because as far as I'm concerned 0.023 and 0.024 drills are identical. But the script doesn't know which drills I favor, so it lists everything it needs. I could stuff those sizes in the tool table, but a limit of 50 entries is perilously close to how many different drill sizes I actually use: I want to avoid having a separate tool table for each job! Thanks... -- Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
