One thing I've always thought would be super useful would be for the control to be able to share tool table info with the CAM software. You set up your tools on the machine (possibly using probing), and export that information to your CAM, and you never have to worry about getting a tool wrong in your CAM configuration and crashing. Unfortunately, LinuxCNC control software is light years ahead of open-source CAM software. It still could be useful to make a script that grabs the LinuxCNC tool table and formats it correctly for closed-source CAM packages.
-- Ralph ________________________________________ From: andy pugh [bodge...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 3:48 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Tool Shape On 20 April 2014 17:28, Pete Matos <petefro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah I know the Haas has the diameter column as well as wear column for the > TLO. I am quite surprised that LinuxCNC does not have these most simple > items let alone radius and shape comp. The CNC controller doesn't know enough about the material shape to be able to do anything sensible with (for example) ball-nose radius. Which isn't to say that the information couldn't live in the tool table. The current tool-table has a fixed size. It can currently handle 56 tools. If you added nose radius for milling tools then it would hold 50 tools (at a guess). I did start on making the tool table a lot cleverer. It would be a database (which means that you can actually add any data fields you like for your own purposes, LinuxCNC will just ignore things it doesn't know how to use) I eventually ended up with a scheme where all the machines in a factory could share a tool database, and each machine would know what tools were available to it. I think that is the way to go. I kind-of stalled with waiting to see what happened to NML. There was a preview branch that I made, but there was no apparent interest in it. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
