Re: [Emc-users] Bypassing Hal_manualtoolchange

[John T. <bj...@gm...>]

I have some pyvcp buttons on my lathe to change tools, however the 
ladder logic handles the turret so no manual tool change is used. On the 
BP knee mill I have a macro that I just enter the number of the tool and 
then try and press the tiny little ok button on the manual tool change 
window on my touch screen.

JT

On 10/14/2013 10:57 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> Currently my mill is set up with immediate tool change. As in, I
> manually change a tool and then type M6TNG43 in the MDI window. I
> intend to change this soon, probably this evening.
> What I would quite like to do is have a GladeVCP window for
> tool-changing, to save my typing in to the MDI window. But on this
> inteface I don't want to have to "OK" the manual toolchange dialog
> box.
>
> However, I obviously would want the machine to pause and the manual
> toolchange dialog to pop up if this was an M6 inside a G-code program.
>
> I am thinking in terms of some HAL logic to cut manual_toolchange out
> of the loop if program-is-running is true. Before I waste time setting
> this up, does anyone know if this will work? I guess it is important
> that program-is-running stays true through a toolchange...
>