Current turning capabilities status

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Another progress another question

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Axis are running, spindle is running, toolchange is done. Not bad for now.
As the machine does automatic toolchanges (and many for each part), every time that the tool change happens, the spindle stops. I think that this is a desired feature for milling machines, but for lathes it is a waist of power and time as the spindle must brake and gain speed again.
I hope that this is easy to change/set up, but I could not find any info about this.
I must say that the toolchange is being done by a component programmed here, but the component does not ask for the spindle stop.

Thank you

This is done, for example here:



so linuxcnc can support it, but we have no idea how to do it.
Who made the video? Is someone that uses this forum?

www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum...etrofit?limitstart=0

jtc wrote: 1) every time that the tool change happens, the spindle stops. I think that this is a desired feature for milling machines, but for lathes it is a waist of power and time as the spindle must brake and gain speed again.

It's an INI-file option: [EMCIO] TOOL_CHANGE_WITH_SPINDLE_ON = 1
www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/ini_co..._sub_emcio_section_a

After almost one year...
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