Hi Gene,
Which for you are metric. I do a lot of metric, but the machine was
originally setup in inches.
No problem. Just change the G21 to G20 in toolset.ngc
Neat, but my screws limit me to on table positions, so I usually just
superglue a piece of dbl-sided pcb to some handy place near the middle
of the table,
Yeah, you'd need to take out the Y axis moves. I originally wrote this
code for the fixed tool-setter on my Hurco mill. It has enough table
area that I can get away with a permanently attached tool setter
(Renishaw MP3 that I got cheap on eBay). On that machine the tool change
code does the following:
Lift to the top of travel.
Ask for the tool.
If the 'Auto tool set' button on the control panel is on it then
remembers the current X,Y position, does a tool set and returns to the
stored X,Y position. I have lots of buttons on the front panel for
various functions. For instance I have 8 buttons to select tools 1-8. If
a tool within that range is selected that button lights up. Pressing a
button executes 'M6Tn G43Hn'. I do a lot of one-off and manual work so
being able to quickly select tools saves a lot of time.
It would be nice to have an ATC on this machine but it would be a big
project and I don't have the round tuits. I still need to fit the second
touch-screen display which will be dedicated to manual functions -
probing, hole patterns etc. It will be run by a Pi that talks to the
main computer over Ethernet using the CNCRemote library and GUI that I
am (slowly) working on.
Note the toolset flags only work for the first 8 tools.
Ouch, so those have to be treated as 100% volatile, meaning move the
tools already defined to position 10 and above in the tool table.
You could run the G36.1 with block delete:
M6 T1
/G36.1
That way you can disable the G36.1 if you have restarted and know your
tools are correct.
Les
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