Category: General LinuxCNC Questions
Adaptive feed and feed hold are core to how plasmac for plasma machines operates. However it does not use the gcode on/off capabilities that I have seen.
feed-hold issued during a tapping cycle could be catastrophic as it just stops xyz motion and does nothing to spindle. Feed-inhibit would be appropriate then as it alllows synch motion as used in tapping to complete.
Adaptive feed along with external offsets allows for some cool cut recovery operations on a plasma or probably any jet cutting machine (e.g. Laser or water jet)
I was under the impression that LCNC already disables feed-hold in the background during tapping or other spindle-synchronized movements. I think activating feed-hold has no effect until the tool is back at the retract plane. Which is why I didn't think adding feed-hold disable feature to the s-curve Tp was necessary.
But I could see a use for adaptive feed enable/disable during g-code. Hope I didn't give the impression I didn't think it was useful.
