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Just wanted to update, I spent many weeks verifying the wiring on the machine, and everything looked good from that standpoint. So I went back to the PID settings with a different approach, and have seemed to land on some stable settings that make the machine work correctly! The tool changer also needed some PID tuning and now seems to make all changes correctly.

Still have to set up the touch off probe and tool setter before I start making chips, but progress will be much slower with winter here

So wanted to thank everyone for offering help on this! When starting out you don't know what you don't know, and that made getting to this point difficult.

I’ve got an issue. I have a 7i95T board and Pico Systems brushless DC drivers that take PWM input. I assume I need a new firmware to convert all step/dir to PWM? Can anyone help me?  Additionally, I assume this won’t interfere with the 2 serial ports?
Charles

I'm most interested in using a non linuxcnc axis output to move a stepper motor for carousel motion, I'm fine with the rest of the macros being required and it being somewhat hybridized.

for the load tool not in carousel, I will be doing some extensive rewrites on the atc macros very soon which is what prompts my question, I would like to try and do both the "all macro" and "carousel comp/macro hybrid" edits in parallel while my mind will be saturated with the knowledge...lol I'm sure you can appreciate the benefit in that, its a good bit to keep track of and much easier when its all fresh in the brain.

The new data Base tool table feature is going to be a game changer for probe basic as it will add quite a bit of awesome functionality for those using atc's. the ability to have tool parameters stored and be accessible in the DB to be used in macros will make all the difference in what can be automated and simplified.

I am pretty excited to start work on it, just shoring up a few things in the shop before I can get to it. if you want to share what you have going on that would be a great start I'm sure!

Thanks Spumco!

Chris

Tool touch off is done.
gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/flexgui/tools.html#tool-touchoff

JT

Hi Salame,

I live in Holland near Gorinchem and Rotterdam.
It would be great to have a servo drive and motor and test it to be auto configurated.

it means that any servo drive will be auto configured?
At this stage, i can not confirm this.
When i retrieve the info from the ethercat bus, and pdo config is made for the drive.

Then i can test the servo drive to send commands.

It would not mean every drive would have the same pdo config, these would be different,
but we can automaticly sort data out and do suggestions for that data like:

If it comes out that a servo position command is always a 64 bit value. Then we can already map this to
a position command. It's just figuring out a few things.

If it turn's out there isn't any logical explanation in the servo pdo config. Then we can add a 
template for that particular servo drive vendor id.

@Fakename
The links are broken indeed, the source has moved to :
codeberg.org/skynet/realtime_app/src/bra...dor/ethercat_twincat

It is part of a bigger project that used opencascade.