identify in HAL when Linuxcnc is doing drilling operation (G83/G76...)

Any idea if this is possible?

Motion.motion-type offers only values for linear and arc-feed.

But my goal is to activate some external hardware only when linuxcnc is doing a drill operation.
Any idea or Chance if and how this could be possible?
Thx!

A somewhat clunky way would be to run the gcode through a filter and bracket the G83,G76 with M62/M63

I lke this idea because ist just a little postprocessor modification...
Thx for this!
Any other ideas?

You can also make a filter to make the changes when you open the file.

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/config/ini-co...html#_filter_section

JT

Awesome! Great! Thx. The incredible flexibility of linuxcnc is sometimes too much "to see/know everything"

Can the requirement be correlated to specific tools? If so then you could set HAL pins in a remap code, or possibly use halui.tool-number to pick from a mux.