2011/9/3 Chris Morley <[email protected]>: > > >> >> This gives me in the Axis display to buttons to >> turn the spindle on and off. When pressing the two >> buttons with the left mouse button or F9 the pin >> 14 followes the state of the buttons of the >> display, maening going high and low. When trying >> to turn the spindle on with M3 or M4, from the MDI >> console or from a G-Code file, the buttons follow >> the commands (M3 / M4) but not the pin 14. When I >> manualy turn the spindel on with the mouse or F9, >> the command M5 turns the spindel off and pin 14 >> goes low representing the state of the buttons. >> >> What did I wrong? >> >> Any help would be higly appreciated. >> > > Its a quirk of EMC. Try setting a spindle speed. > eg s1 before setting m3 or m4 (AXIS does this internally)
Yes, You need to set spindle speed at least once in the code with S word. I also had this situation... I have a question, hopefully to start some discussion: How hard would it be to remove (at least with some special line in HAL or INI file) this S word requirement? Actually only milling machines need this to set spindle speed, there are many types of machines that need only to turn on the tool without S word. Those include plasma cutting machines, waterjet machines and many different special-purpose machines, like Peter's hotwire cutting machine or my welding robot. I am sure that there are many more. So does anyone have idea, how hard would it be to change it? Which file of the source code to look in? Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
