Re: [Emc-developers] rack type ATC

[Floca A. <ale...@ya...>]

The toolchange routines I wrote allow the use of this type of toolchanger as 
shown  here, the code is very flexible so it allows the configuration 
(positioning, direction and distance between toolholders) to be easyly set up in 
the ini file. For shure, this code does not apply for other many types of 
toolchangers but with the help of the comunity and more examples of how this can 
be done I am shure many will write proper code for other toolchanger types and 
configurations.  


Could you please send a link to any documentation avaliable about the remapping 
of M6 into a gcode routine

thanks!
Alex




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Von: andy pugh <bod...@gm...>
An: EMC developers <emc...@li...>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, den 21. Juli 2011, 18:58:52 Uhr
Betreff: Re: [Emc-developers] rack type ATC

On 21 July 2011 15:54, Floca Alexandru <ale...@ya...> wrote:

> The code I wrote is somehow similar to this
> (http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?RackToolChanger

I believe that that approach didn't make it into a released EMC2
version as it was difficult to make it work on different machine
designs.

> how can I make a patch for the changes made to several files?
> and where should I upload the patch?

You would need to create a patch in git format (git format-patch) and
submit it to the mailing list for consideration.
The problem is that it needs to not break anything else, and add
something that existing code does not.
One concern I have about your code is that it might do the same thing
as the current option to re-map M6 to an arbitrary G-code routine, but
less flexibly. I am not sure if you are aware of this option, and I am
not doing very well at finding any documentation. I suspect if you had
known about it, you might well have done your tool change that way.

By the way, I have no say on what code does and does not get accepted
into EMC2, I don't even know who does decide.

-- 
atp
"Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men"

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