Re: [Emc-developers] Tormach GUI

[andy p. <bod...@gm...>]

On 11 July 2014 17:51, Jon Elson <el...@pi...> wrote:

> I'm speaking  in generalities, but I think this is true for most
> CNC lathes.

I think that VDI is a way to repeatably swap tools in a lathe changer.
(And maybe some HSK variants)

Though I don't think what I have done needs to be 100% generic, as the
whole point is that the behaviour is encoded in Python and G-code
files that can be altered without even having to re-start LinuxCNC.

As it is at the moment the G-code can not directly set the
tool-pocket-prepare pin, it always ends up taking tool-number and not
pocket number.
The Python prologue can easily set the tool-pocket-prepare pin, but to
do that it needs to know how the tool number is encoded in the
T-number.

The changes are fairly small, I will push the demo config to the G43.2
branch this evening.

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