Thank you Gene! I will look into it. Fusion is really good at allowing you to set up multiple fixtures to run parts in to minimize tool changes. I have made fixture plates to machine the end plates on a couple of the Hammond extruded enclosures. Five positions, four screws to hold down the plates. You just need to set up the coordinates for each position on the fixture plate. That was easy! These blocks have details on each surface, so many more setups needed. For this job, it is five pieces X 35, so I thought I needed some speed-ups.
--J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com "Good enough is the enemy of excellence"author unknown On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 10:36 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Monday 31 August 2020 00:38:00 jrmitchellj wrote: > > > Yeah, I am sure it is in the post processor. I pulled it down and had > > a look at it, but I am not a programmer. I found where itis stated, > > but have no clue how to change it. > > > > I am running out of workspaces. I am doing a 2-up run with a blank > > in each end of the vice, using workspace rotation. Pushing my > > envelope! I am thinking that once I have a couple of parts lined up & > > touched off, I could save the .var file to a nema relevant to the > > parts, then when I need to make some more of those, move that file > > back to linuxcnc.var, start up the system, and be ready to go with the > > setups. save an hour right there. But 2 parts, six sides with > > features to be machined, means 12 offsets. LinuxCNC has 9. > > Reading between the lines in the docs a bit, I have expanded that file in > terms of the number of vars saved by one or 3 a time or two when I > needed a startup variable that was fixed at the LinuxCNC restart. For a > full set of G59.1 style co-ords is 9 #4xxx etc locations. As I recall > it, once they are init'ed in the .ini file, they become part of the > linuxcnc.var file automaticaly. But its been yonks since I did that, > and I don't know where it is in the docs now. You would need 27 more > locations to fix those 3 additional co-ord tables, but with a 4G r-pi I > think it could be made to work. > > In your gcode, you would need to write a subroutine to re-init that map # > from these added vars, and call the subroutine to reset it for each end > of the vice. Then another sub could do the exact same operations, using > the same co-ord map after its been reset to the values for the other end > of the vise. And comment the heck out of your gcode so if you need to > look at it again in 6 months, it will be self-explanatory. > > Good luck J. Ray. > > > > --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > > jrmitche...@gmail.com > > > > > > "Good enough is the enemy of excellence"author unknown > > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 5:32 PM andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 01:25, jrmitchellj <jrmitche...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > All was going well until I got to G59.1 (offset 7 in F360). It > > > > formats > > > > > > the > > > > > > > command as "g59.1 P1", and LCNC does not seem to like it. > > > > > > That sounds like an issue with the post processor. It's easy to > > > imagine that some other system would use G59.1 PN to extend the > > > coordinate systems. > > > > > > I have never even noticed where Fusion lets you choose. > > > > > > -- > > > atp > > > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > > > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > > > lunatics." > > > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > 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) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > 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
