Multipul tools per turret channel?

Hi
just a quick question regarding tool zeroing

say if i had a driven tool with a parting tool attached to the side. now imagine that same driven tool also has a driven tool on the back of it for sub spindle work.

so basically this is 3 tools on 1 turret position.

can something like this work on linuxcnc?

turret is running on say an Arduino and all it cares about is a number from 1-8 once it gets that it will work to reach that number lock Hirth coupling then send signal back to say I made it and I'm ready.

I'm slowly working my way thru this software but I'm stuck here now.

thank you

thanks sir

so I'm not going to have any issues with tools having the same number ie
tool 1 position 1
tool 2 position 1
tool 3 position 1

but on Linuxcnc it is set as
tool 1
tool 2
tool 3
but knows they are all activated via position 1 but different XYZ coordinates?

I'm going to try it now via software only.

thanks

I think you could do it by using 3 different tool offsets but only one tool position (pocket).
So tool position 1, with the offset for 1, 10, and 11.
T1 M6
G43 H1 (or H10, or H11)

It might also work by specifying the same tool position for T10 and T11. But I have never tried it, so I don't know if it will complain if you try to have more than one tool entry with the same pocket# (Simple enough to test it).

no it does not like it when you use same pocket again.

i cant even seem to setup my own machine on it i was just using a template made for mills

i tried to give it different y positions but still it does not like that

i think i might have an idea that could fix this but still need to create a profile for my machine

i can teach the turret to go to the same position when it receives 3 different numbers
so say pocket 1-9-17 all go to position number 1.

this means as far as linuxcnc is concerned they are different pockets and the arduino does the rest.

do you think this might work?

Why would you need 10 tools?

He can use three tool numbers, pocket = tool number, different offset values for each tool.

The arduino would need to be hard coded for the three tool numbers using the same pocket, and he would just have to remember to assign the right tool # in cam.