How do I do a manual tool change?

To the real machinists who counselled against this: This is a learning excersize, and I will probably end up not using it in real life.

It does not matter, it is the learning process that matters.

I could not be happy until I had managed to get my lathe ATC working completely automatically as was intended.
I learnt a huge amount in getting to that state.

It matters not that I now seldom use it for other than tool choice before starting a program run.
I still have the knowledge I acquired along the way.

regards

Glad you got it sorted out and are having fun.

Rick G

ArcEye wrote:

Hi

"You may also want to look here...
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ManualToolChangeMacro"
As per a recent discussion on the users list, this script is now out of date and will not work 'as is' due to changes with the NML file requirement.

Attached is a modified version I made which does work with v2.4 and higher, albeit it is still a little quirky and you need to play with it to get used to it.
(just remove the .txt extension )

regards

Hello,

I've been unable to get this to work on 2.5.3

It hangs while starting LinuxCNC.

The error log shows:
"Waiting for component 'hal_manualtoolchange' to become ready...................................."
"LS.hal:90 hal_manualtoolchange exited without becoming ready"

Any help would be appreciated.

Luke

Hi

It is quite simple, this thread is 1 1/2 years old and emc has been rebranded to linuxcnc since then.

If you ran linuxcnc from a terminal, the errors would immediately show that it could not find the python library emc, because it is now called linuxcnc

This version runs under the master so should work with 2.5.X as well

regards

ArcEye wrote:

Hi
It is quite simple, this thread is 1 1/2 years old and emc has been rebranded to linuxcnc since then.

If you ran linuxcnc from a terminal, the errors would immediately show that it could not find the python library emc, because it is now called linuxcnc

This version runs under the master so should work with 2.5.X as well

regards

Hi ArcEye,

Yes I was already using the file that supposedly had been updated for 2.5

I tried your file, and have the same result. "Waiting for component 'hal_manualtoolchange' to become ready"

Cheers,
Luke