Vericut comes close to what Chris proposes with their solid simulation. There are other solid simulations available. It would be an interesting investigation.
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Chris Radek <ch...@timeguy.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:36:57PM -0500, Daniel Goller wrote: > > What additional info would be required to know what I was asking about. > > Or is it more "Oh no dude, we know what you wanted, it's just so not > > possible, we just don't want to touch this one" :> > > I agree it'd be nice if the machine could somehow avoid crashing, > but the problem is not straightforward. > > My lathe has a horizontal turret but no tailstock. Soft limits keep > the turret itself from striking the spindle nose. If I mount the 3 > jaw chuck, it would be possible to make a different soft limit > setting to keep the turret from striking the chuck. > > But this really doesn't help much at all. > > The turret can strike the workpiece, or the chuck jaws which stick > out different distances depending on how far they are open. > > A tool (which sticks out from the turret in various directions) can > strike anything. Even if the tool table would have per-tool soft > limits, on my lathe with an octagonal turret, adjacent tools can > easily hit stuff too. > > Frankly I just don't see how what you ask is possible. A simple > (but perhaps not easy) implementation such as different soft limits > per tool seems inadequate for lots of reasons. An adequate > implementation (like modeling the whole turret and all its tools, > and the spindle nose and the chuck and the workpiece) and having EMC > monitor those shapes for interference with one another would probably > be so complex to use (development aside) that nobody would use it. > > Like you hint at, I suspect everyone knows what you want to happen - > the machine stops and gives an error instead of crashing. But what we > need instead is a specification that would allow this to be > implemented (and then someone able and interested in doing it). > > Chris > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- dos centavos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
