Gmoccapy tool change/measurement modifications

I've been usintg the tool measurement feature in gmoccapy 2.3.3.2 for a couple years now with a grounded touchplate and that worked fine because It was ~2" in diameter and I had magnets in the bottom od it so I could just bump it around a bit for something like a 3 insert facemill or another wide tool with a recessed center. I'm now using an optical toolsetter and the face is smaller and it is bolted to the table. I'm wondering if there is a way to give different XY locations for individual tools so they can be offset to the toolsetter during the measurement.

The toolsetter also has an airblast nozzle to clear chips. I know I can activate the output for the solenoid in a Gcode program, but that is a pain and I will probably forget to insert it into the program everytime I output. I'm wondering if there is anyway to modify the toolchange script to activate the output pin everytime the toolmeasurement is in progress.

1. I'm not sure but i thing there is a pin that signals probing in process. Search in the hal elements
2. You could simply readout the x and y position and if they are true switch the valve on. Maybe also below a certain hight.

Mike_Eitel wrote:

1. I'm not sure but i thing there is a pin that signals probing in process. Search in the hal elements
2. You could simply readout the x and y position and if they are true switch the valve on. Maybe also below a certain hight.

1 is a decent idea. motion.motion-type has an s32 output value of 5 when probing is active. only problem is that after the first touch, the motion-type changes to 1, then back to 5 for the 2nd probe touch. Surprisingly I can't find a simple component to take the s32 input value of 5 and output a bit when it is 5. Comp(arator) would be ideal but it uses float inputs so I'd have to use the conversion components which I don't really like to do.

I don't like the fact that motion-type changes from 5 to 1 then back to 5 for probing, it would cause the solenoid to toggle on and off an extra time. I could use debounce or a delay component to ensure that it ignores the motion type change momentarily. I could have a friend write a simple component if no one has a suggestion to output a bit based on a defined s32 integer. could also make it a specific touchprobe component and have it ignore the motion type change with logic or a delay.

2, not thrilled about that idea. I'd have to use 2 comparators and an AND component to do that. the first idea is better and I may do that but ideally this would be part of the probe script.

As far as offsetting a tool on probing, there's really no good way to do it in hal if any. I can come up with a convoluted slew of components to offset the position-request based on if probing is active and pass an incremental move to halui based on if motion-type=probing and the toolnumber to be offset. This would be far cleaner in the script, and even added to the UI. I could create the UI panel, but I couldn't write the mods to the probe script without help.