Anyone with succesful Rack Type Tool Changer with Auto Tool length probe ?

Hello Andy, Hello pl7i92,

I am almost done with this setup, thanks tonns, actually G 38.2 i didnt tried on machine, will try tomorrow with dummy switch.

Apart from that I found one bug, whenever i close EMC with tool in spindle, its not saving existing tool, it shows no tool in next startup. any ideas to avoid this ?


Thanks & Regards,
Ankit

marq_torque wrote: Apart from that I found one bug, whenever i close EMC with tool in spindle, its not saving existing tool, it shows no tool in next startup. any ideas to avoid this ?

That's normal, but is also something that is being looked in to.

(It's not a bug, LinuxCNC has always done that)

Yes my bad, its not bug its normal... Okay, so all the time when machine starts up we need to remove tool manually and place it in its pocket and then after i can get GCode running.?

Are there any parameters for this ? To overcome this situation ?

Thanks,
Ankit

Not at the moment.

Supposedly it is good practice to unload tools at the end of the day (not that I bother)

M6 T0 before shutting down?

Yes AndyPugh, i tried unloading with M6T0

But problem with my spindle is, its Alfred Jaeger HF spindle 10000-600000RPM, it cant be left unloaded without tool for longer time, or cant be forced to run without tool loaded into it. Doing so can damage spindle collet mechanism and internals Warned by Manufacturer

So have to think over how to keep tool into it and still manage to change with respective number.

Have you read this series of posts? There is a solution here that will tide you over until something gets built-in to LinuxCNC.

forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxcnc-q...mory?start=10#130062