[Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread Niemand Sonst
Hallo, we do introduce with 2.7 the new tool path and a lot of good stuff, but IMHO we do forget one real important fix! LinuxCNC do limit the amount of tools to 56 tools, correct?? This is stupid! I have a Heckler & Koch machine with 24 places, but as I do own about 500 tool fixtures with SK

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 February 2015 at 16:12, andy pugh wrote: > > On 22 February 2015 at 16:03, Niemand Sonst wrote: > >> Who knows: >> - Why do we have that limit, the tool.tbl does accept more tools! >> - How to fix that! >> > > I fixed it, nobody cared. I gave up. > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 February 2015 at 16:03, Niemand Sonst wrote: > Who knows: > - Why do we have that limit, the tool.tbl does accept more tools! > - How to fix that! > I fixed it, nobody cared. I gave up. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ---

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread Dave Caroline
I think the limit is derived from the message size (send all tools in one message) it should just send tools used/changed and an index number so the tool table can be sent over a number of massages as needed Dave On 22/02/2015, Niemand Sonst wrote: > Hallo, > > we do introduce with 2.7 the new t

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday, February 22, 2015 11:17:53 AM Dave Caroline wrote: > I think the limit is derived from the message size (send all tools in > one message) it should just send tools used/changed and an index > number so the tool table can be sent over a number of massages as > needed > > Dave > That wou

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 February 2015 at 16:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > instructs the operator to put that tool in > pocket # such and such in the ATC, (replacing the least used tool if its > full) but an unlimited (by disk space only) table on the disk. > The whole thing is rather complicated by the fact that tool

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 02/22/2015 09:14 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 22 February 2015 at 16:12, andy pugh wrote: > >> >> On 22 February 2015 at 16:03, Niemand Sonst wrote: >> >>> Who knows: >>> - Why do we have that limit, the tool.tbl does accept more tools! >>> - How to fix that! >>> >> >> I fixed it, nobody cared.

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread David Armstrong
i need this to , it's quite restricting for a few of my machines On 22 February 2015 at 17:12, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > On 02/22/2015 09:14 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 22 February 2015 at 16:12, andy pugh wrote: > > > >> > >> On 22 February 2015 at 16:03, Niemand Sonst wrote: > >> > >>> W

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread Niemand Sonst
@Andy, please post your branch, I will review it as much as it is in my possibilities. I can not understand, why it is not fixed, your suggestion is from 2013. Seb, what happened? One more question, related to: -- he whole thing is rather complicated by the fa

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread john...@superiorroll.com
Jeff Johnson - Reply message - From: "Niemand Sonst" To: Subject: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit Date: Sun, Feb 22, 2015 2:16 PM @Andy, please post your branch, I will review it as much as it is in my possibilities. I can not understand, why it is not fixed, your suggestion is fr

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread John Thornton
Calling things stupid and trying to intimidate the developers with kindergarten insults usually is not very productive in an open source project... I know I should do as others and just ignore stupid comments but every now and then I can't. JT On 2/22/2015 1:16 PM, Niemand Sonst wrote: > @Andy

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 02/22/2015 12:16 PM, Niemand Sonst wrote: > please post your branch, I will review it as much as it is in my > possibilities. > I can not understand, why it is not fixed, your suggestion is from 2013. > Seb, what happened? Because nobody made time to review it. > One more question, related t

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 February 2015 at 17:12, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Can you post your branch again? > > Maybe Norbert will review it and see if it satisfies his need? > OK, I have pushed it to a new branch. I have to admit that it has been a long time since I looked at it. And I seem to have broken the

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2015-02-22 Thread Stuart Stevenson
> > > Jeff Johnson > > - Reply message - > From: "Niemand Sonst" > To: > Subject: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit > Date: Sun, Feb 22, 2015 2:16 PM > @Andy, > > please post your branch, I will review it as much as it is in my > possibilities. > I can not understand, why it is not fixed

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 02/22/2015 01:11 PM, andy pugh wrote: ... snip I abandoned it to a large extent because it was only half of what I wanted to do. For instance it has none of the extra capability that the proposed database layout in the wiki page has. (Possibly worth mentioning that that database layout was lar

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 02/22/2015 02:25 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On 02/22/2015 01:11 PM, andy pugh wrote: > ... snip >> I abandoned it to a large extent because it was only half of what I >> wanted >> to do. For instance it has none of the extra capability that the proposed >> database layout in the wiki page has. >>

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread Jason Penn
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On 02/22/2015 01:11 PM, andy pugh wrote: > ... snip > >> I abandoned it to a large extent because it was only half of what I wanted >> to do. For instance it has none of the extra capability that the proposed >> database layout in the wiki pa