On 04/20/2014 03:48 PM, andy pugh wrote: > 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.
I want to use an end mill corner radius with a conversational facing routine. We are pulling the tool diameter from the table and having the operator enter in the full depth diameter (tool dia - 2*corner radius). I added to the tool comment field 'CR=x.xxx' and search for the CR= to get the value (not exactly true but effectively the same). This way the tool information I need comes from the table and can be reused. > 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) Redis maybe? > 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. I suspect there won't be any interest until it becomes the next greatest thing. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
