Re: [Emc-users] new tool table in linuxcnc master

2023-10-02 Thread andrew beck
Thanks so much for the replies guys. That's great. I just need 80 tools for now so can work with that and keen to try out any new features as they come up On Tue, 3 Oct 2023, 02:59 Rene Hopf via Emc-users, < emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On 02.10.23 13:21, andy pugh wrote: > >

Re: [Emc-users] new tool table in linuxcnc master

2023-10-02 Thread Rene Hopf via Emc-users
On 02.10.23 13:21, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 2 Oct 2023 at 11:53, Roland Jollivet wrote: Just wondering, why would there be limit of 50? Previously the whole tool-table was sent periodically in an NML message and those are of limited size. That's not the case now, though. And I don't think

Re: [Emc-users] new tool table in linuxcnc master

2023-10-02 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 2 Oct 2023 at 11:53, Roland Jollivet wrote: > > Just wondering, why would there be limit of 50? Previously the whole tool-table was sent periodically in an NML message and those are of limited size. That's not the case now, though. And I don't think that there is any limit currently.

[Emc-users] new tool table in linuxcnc master

2023-10-02 Thread Roland Jollivet
Just wondering, why would there be limit of 50? Why not just make it 255? (surely the software doesn't care?) On Mon, 2 Oct 2023 at 08:47, andrew beck wrote: > hey guys > > i see there is a new tool table in linuxcnc now. looks like it has great > potential > >

Re: [Emc-users] new tool table in linuxcnc master

2023-10-02 Thread Nicklas SB Karlsson
Have been thinking about it myself, Really great! In the CAD program FreeCAD I have a tool database there each tool is identified by a number. Should be rather simple to write a small application to get the tool numbers from this into Linuxcnc and add storage of other information such as tool

Re: [Emc-users] new tool table in linuxcnc master

2023-10-02 Thread andrew beck
just found this to https://github.com/spacestate1/linuxcnc/commit/9c6a8d82c60fc40b435b1e8e4c42e8c44a0ed907 does anyone have any more details on it? On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 11:41 PM andrew beck wrote: > hey guys > > i see there is a new tool table in linuxcnc now. looks like it has great >

[Emc-users] new tool table in linuxcnc master

2023-10-02 Thread andrew beck
hey guys i see there is a new tool table in linuxcnc now. looks like it has great potential https://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/tooldatabase/tooldatabase.html i have a big mazak fh680 horizontal cnc mill 22tons and 80 tools linuxcnc used to have a max of 50 tools in tool table. with the