simulation

is there any way to block the operation of a machine with linuxcnc installed to be able to run a simulation of a program. could someone explain to me how, thank you very much.

I need to test the tool radius compensation on a lathe and I can't try several options to get the right one

When you start Linuxcnc from the menu, there are many sim configs already for many types of machines, choose a lathe and test.

hi tommylight .I know , but it is not what I need. on a machine with linuxcnc installed, I need to change run mode to simulation mode. is that possible ?

When a machine operator wants to try a program, how can he do it? I need to stop everything !!!

If you don't turn the drives on I'm pretty sure you can run it.

If you have homing switches you will need to hand trigger them.

I'm pretty sure I've done this with my parallel port machine. I don't think it will work if you have encoders or any feedback devices

Hi Leon82. Yes, I thought about it the same way, but there is a big problem, we are lying to Linuxcnc and he has control of the machine. You can do it, me too, but I need to let an operator work. and it is very dangerous on an installed lathe.

Are you talking about a gcode simulation?

Like camplete or vericut? They run the actual gcode file with a machine model