#linuxcnc-devel Logs

Jun 24 2020

02:07 PM sliptonic: Hi guys. I've got a question: I recently made a stupid mistake and turned on the spindle with my probe loaded. Besides feeling like an idiot, I resigned myself to adding a tool attribute to FreeCAD Path tool definition that would cause an error if a probe/dragknife gets a spindle speed set other than zero.
02:11 PM sliptonic: My question is whether this can or does exist at the control level. Can there be an attribute in the tool table that causes an error at the machine?
02:11 PM sliptonic: I ask because I visited a local shop yesterday that runs Haas and they had pieces of paper taped on machines saying "Never issue M3 with tool n". Clearly something bad happened.
02:29 PM cradek: No there isn't. Can you arrange a switch somehow that disables the spindle in hardware when it's physically loaded? You can't really trust the control to know for sure what tool is in there.
02:29 PM cradek: with mine when the probe is loaded, I turn on the spindle orient switch, which locks the spindle in place (for better probe repeatability), and also prevents the spindle drive from turning on.
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08:25 PM linuxcnc-build: build #6937 of 0000.checkin is complete: Failure [4failed fetch branch to local git repo] Build details are at http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/buildbot/builders/0000.checkin/builds/6937 blamelist: Phillip Carter <phillcarter54@gmail.com>
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