I may have slept through a major upgrade. But I was sure that there was no support for dual tool paths to run independently at the same time. I have run older Okuma dual turret turning centers and both turrets could work independently within reason. (This was a single spindle machine) Okuma used G13 Pxxxx / G14 Pxxxx to define upper/lower turret and the P#### kept them in sync. Either G13|G14 program could issue S#### M3|M4|M5. Dual independent operation is only needed on a dual spindle/ dual turret, and things will get real complicated for the LCNC developers when you try to do a part hand off on the fly from '$0' to '$1'.
I like the '$' implementation as proposed but I wonder if the $# should be tied to the active work coordinate system. IE G54-G57 might be set to $0 and the G58-G59 are set to $1 I know this could throw another wrench in the format system variables are stored. Greg - Out yonder in Yoder, CO _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
