On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:33:09 +0200, you wrote: >Yes man we are still listening although we might not have a clue as to >what you are talking about. It sounds like you have the problem and >solution pretty much under control there.
Yea - I was lost too :) >In simple language, movement during pause and tool offset changes are >the most important features required. I dont understand the effort >involved but it seems huge. It will be worth a lot in the end. >I am involved in getting people onto linuxcnc on an almost daily basis. >It forms a huge part of my business ( bread and butter) at this time. >Whenever I do an upgrade for a customer, it is always LCNC. Now to my >own shame I have to say this. My own dektop mill runs Mach, why? Because >I have a screenset that allows me to do tool change, jog to a position, >do automatic tool length probing, set the offsets and return to cutting. >Remember that there are many spindles out there that do not take a tool >holder, so tool tables are of no use. The tool must be probed at every >change. Agreed in principle. I keep being told I need some sort of tool probe. I've managed many years without, so far<G>. >Whatever it takes, I for one will support you as much as I can. I cannot >help much with coding (forgot how to mostly) but anything else I am >willing to help with. Me too - I've recently spent a good amount of money for an external control. It does just what I needed during a tool change, I can re zero any axis I like. I can also pause mid move, jog away in any or all axis, clear swarf and resume without any problem. It's CV and trajectory planning are awesome, 300 line look ahead and my big router no longer tries to dance around the floor. I've been able to up my feeds by 20% without any adverse effects !! Only drawback is it doesn't do re zero during a pause, yet. I can live with that, for now. But - as I said in my original post, it's only highly desirable! In my case It was worth the money even without that.... Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
