Schaublin 125-CNC retrofit.

Hi Ralph,

Thanks for taking the time to give me your insights. That is a really helpful. I really like your control panel, It looks very practical.

I have a lot of comments through YT as well, and will need to work though it all in my head to see what gels together.

Make a cardboard mockup and pretend going through all the normal machining steps.

• Setup
• tool touchoffs
• measuring parts in situ
• programming
• editing programs
• Running a program
  • Starting program
  • Adjusting FRO/SRO while machining
  • Single-blocking through the program
  • Pausing/stopping
  • Jogging away from part

Where do your hands want or need to be while you do the above? What about your eyes?  You may come to the conclusion that most of what I posted earlier won't work for you.  As I said, it's like asking about the 'right' pair of pants.

I am coming to this conclusion as well, that I need to break out the CAD (cardboard a.. D..).

I need to order a second 7i73 for that front rail, sliding pendant as well, as it will be much more than I first envisaged.

this is my temp configuration, x z rapid joystick, x z mog dials, connector for my foot switch for my chuck " i wrote a hal component for this check hal examples" . 

everything else is pretty much dead. I'm not a fan of having turret jog controls, long borings etc will hit stuff. better to write a macro that calls g28 for a tool change and move the carriage somewhere safe

I'm still prototyping my controls layout, but it's going to be a variation of this with some dedicated buttons.

smc.collins wrote:

 I'm not a fan of having turret jog controls, long borings etc will hit stuff. better to write a macro that calls g28 for a tool change and move the carriage somewhere safe

 

Very, very good point.

I get super paranoid with some of my large drill bits, I have a 3 inch drill that is 14 inches long out front of the tool block, and that thing will smash shit. I am working on writing some macros for tool change related stuff. heres my attempt


see post below for edit


and some hal file stuff


net jog-tool-up halui.mdi-command-00 <= your_input_pin_for_tool_up
net jog-tool-down halui.mdi-command-01 <= your_input_pin_for_tool_down

setp halui.mdi-command-00.string "O<jog_tool_up_down> CALL"
setp halui.mdi-command-01.string "O<jog_tool_up_down> CALL"


and more info 

[RS274NGC] ... SUBROUTINE_PATH = /path/to/your/subroutines/directory


I think this will require adding the macros to the INI file as well. I haven't made it that far yet. I started working on a macro to move y Z up and down during toolchanges, because the carousel on my SLV40 only goes left/right or along the X , the bmc20 has the carousel move up and down and the bmc30 is like the slv40, so I started with the carousel I had the most of. 

I scratched this down on some notepad and had chat gpt clean it up, TEST CAREFULLY I HAVE NOT TESTED THIS CODE