On Monday 29 September 2014 23:34:18 sam sokolik did opine And Gene did reply: > I think you are a little confused with soft limits/home switches. Soft > limits are in relation to your home switches (machine coordinates). > They do not move with touch off. They work wonderfully. once I home > ours - no matter how hard I try I cannot get the machine to hit the > limit switches :). (I have tried) > > I have tapped many many holes now and am amazed every time I do. I > have not broken a tap yet (knock on wood). > > our spindle has a 5hp motor and a lot of rotating mass. I have to be > careful as the over shoot is quite large. > > latest tapping.. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBQ7RSuRAls > > sam > At 5 hp I'd imagine its worse than mine is. That little snippet of hal code I posted could come in handy for you too, or even further developed to give it in turns as opposed to encoder counts. But I quit at encoder counts, which could be made into turns. However the traveled distance is up to us to calculate since I don't think hal has access to the tpmm or tpi data needed to determine actual distance.
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