Emco PC turn 55 upgrade..

The tool changer is working as intended now. I'll try to post it here later.

turbo wrote: I'd like to be able to use the Tormach post without changing it to M6 G43 by hand, or learning how to edit my post.

Ah, yes, PathPilot already has that doesn't it?

You don't need to change anything, then.

I've been getting more following errors and eventually decreased my max velocity to only 900mm/min, but still got the error sometimes. Since it says that it could be caused by the BASE_PERIOD set to long I did a ctrl-f in my ini and hal files to try and locate it. It wasn't anywhere and I'm sure I had set it to 25000ns in the pncconfig, so I added BASE_PERIOD = 25000 to the EMCMOT section and I think I may have fixed the problem.

No I guess I didn't fix it. I always happens at the beginning of a lead in move.

turbo wrote: I've been getting more following errors and eventually decreased my max velocity to only 900mm/min, but still got the error sometimes

What is the maximum theoretical speed of your step generator? This depends both on the base-thread rate (which sets a maximum rate at which steps can be generated) and what are the settings for stepgen max velocity and accel (and how do those compare to the TRAJ and AXIS values?

The drivers say they can run up to 200khz. I think that is 3000mm/min(1200rpm), which tested fine in pncconfig. The motors are rated to run only 900rpm, which is 2250mm/min. I've got 200 steps/rev, 25 microsteps/step, 2.5mm screws. So 2000 microsteps/mm(.0005mm resolution). With the EMCO controls the max feed was 800mm/min, 2250mm/min rapids.

So it looks like maybe I did the math wrong and I might have to change the resolution to .0025mm.