AXYZ 4008 ATC CNC router control retrofit

Hallo Papaours,

Have you allready changed to gmoccapy?
As i made/make gmoccapy, i can tell you, that you don't have to worry, most changes from Axis to gmoccapy happened without any Problems.

And please show us a Video running your machine with gmoccapy.

Norbert

I've got the homing routine working on the Y axis.

Now the problem I'm running into it getting them all to work together.

The home switches are pnp proximity sensors that go to the same pin for X-Y and another pin for Z-A. They are also the limit switches.

I'm not sure how to configure the .hal /.ini to connect X-Y and Z-A to two separate pins and not fire a limit error on X while homing Y

From the Wiki:

"3.4. HOME_IGNORE_LIMITS

Can hold the values YES / NO. The default value for this parameter is NO. This flag determines whether LinuxCNC will ignore the limit switch input for this axis while homing. Setting this to YES will not ignore limit inputs for other axes. If you do not have a separate home switch set this to YES and case connect the limit switch signal to the home switch input in HAL. LinuxCNC will ignore the limit switch input for this axis while homing. To use only one input for all homing and limits you will have to block the limit signals of the axes not homing in HAL and home one axis at a time."

I'm not sure how to go about making the changes shown in red ^.

I've posted my .hal and .ini below if anyone could look it over and advise I'd be most grateful.


Tyler

@ newbynobi

I'd like to try Gmoccapy. It looks great.

On 2.6 its not available to select by PNCCONF.

Do you just need to change your .ini to DISPLAY=Gmoccapy ?


Thanks again.

Tyler

tsmutz5 wrote: I'm not sure how to go about making the changes shown in red ^.

net some-signal-name axis.0.home-sw-in axis.0.pos-lim-sw-in axis.0.neg-lim-sw-in

net some-signal-name parport.0.pin-00-in (or whatever)

www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/motion.9.html

You can put it all on one line of HAL, if you prefer. The lines I gave can be anywhere in the HAL that makes sense to you.
You want a different signal-name for each switch signal, but the X and Y would use the same signal name. A typical name would be "x-y-home-both" but can be anything you choose.

You will also need to se the "HOME_IS_SHARED" value in the INI:
www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/ini_ho...homing-configuration

What a great story! Great machine you have over there. Within our company we have a huge axyz 6*3.8m, sadly enough it's driven by steppers... But it works good for the aluminum sheets we mill with it. I'm new to linuxCNC and the mesa cards. We also have a AXYZ millennium but the controller was broken for years. I now bought a mesa card and got the thing to move again after such a long time. On the millennium i have a 2.2kW spindle with a commander se drive. Could you give me some more information on how you got the commander se working with the mesa card and linuxCNC? What kind of materials are you milling with your machine? I didn't knew AXYZ had servo driven machines... How many tools can you store in the ATC?

reyntjensm wrote: What a great story! Great machine you have over there. Within our company we have a huge axyz 6*3.8m, sadly enough it's driven by steppers... But it works good for the aluminum sheets we mill with it. I'm new to linuxCNC and the mesa cards. We also have a AXYZ millennium but the controller was broken for years. I now bought a mesa card and got the thing to move again after such a long time. On the millennium i have a 2.2kW spindle with a commander se drive. Could you give me some more information on how you got the commander se working with the mesa card and linuxCNC? What kind of materials are you milling with your machine? I didn't knew AXYZ had servo driven machines... How many tools can you store in the ATC?

I just did two AXYZ routers with steppers. 7i92-7i76 worked great. Did each in a day. AXYZ machines are a blast to do.

AXYZ Router config

That is an AXYZ machine I did including connecting sp[indle inverter Commander. Just one parameter to change in Inverter.

Energize a relay with spindle-enable and feed that to the inverter. Then feed the inverter your spindle out while giving 7i76 0-10v and everything should be honky dory.