Woah man that is crazy how it changes tools. Never seen a machine have the arm release the tool and it kinda stick there until the PDB draws it in. Almost seems like it would fall in that moment before the drawbar pulls it into the taper. Interesting setup and color me jealous as hell that your toolchanger works and mine does not yet... LOL ;)
Pete On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Chris Kelley <tensait...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, we had to make a little circuit board to convert the Fanuc spindle > analog pulse generator signals to digital quadrature pulses and I mounted > an optical sensor to read a flag on the spindle to make an index pulse. > > Anyway, the machine now rigid taps. > > Very first chips made since the conversion began were testing rigid tapping > in 1/4" polycarbonate with a 1/4"-20 tap: > https://youtu.be/dvdWepZ5o8Q > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > > On Friday 05 June 2015 12:59:56 Rick Lair wrote: > > > I do build from source, > > > > > > So should I have the VMC folder be in my > > > "home/testpc/linuxcnc-dev/configs directory, > > > > > > Then from the command line be in the > > > "testpc@testpc:~/linuxcnc-dev/configs$" directory, > > > > > > Then do " sudo halcompile --install --install-doc carousel.comp" > > > > > > Does that sound right? > > > > You may have to edit your .bashrc's PATH to include /usr/bin > > > > or, since you'll be using root $PATH, do > > > > sudo /usr/bin/halcompile --install -- install-doc carousel.comp > > > > > On 6/5/2015 12:41 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > > > On 6/5/15 10:38 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > > >> On 5 June 2015 at 17:34, Rick Lair <r...@superiorroll.com> wrote: > > > >>> Now I get "sudo: halcompile: command not found", > > > >> > > > >> Wierd. > > > >> sudo apt-get install linuxcnc-dev > > > >> Might help, but I didn't think that was necessary, and I would > > > >> imagine you already have it. > > > > > > > > Yes, halcompile is part of the linuxcnc-dev package (or in your > > > > run-in-place path, if you build from source). > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Pete Matos A and N Precision and Fabrication Maryville, Tennessee 865-236-8996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
