Pin with currently used motion command

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5 years 11 months ago #190329 by RKtech
Hi, I'm working on a laser engraving setup, where I use M64/M65 to power the laser on and of and M68 to set the power for the requested feed rate of the Gx move command. With the pin 'motion.current-vel' and 'motion.requested−vel' I calculate the reduction of the laser power while the laser is accelerating or decelerating, so the laser "strength" is constant over way.
Now I have modified the CAM part of HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC so when there is a switch from (for example) G0 to G1 the M64 (laser on) Command is added and when there is a switch to G0 a M65 (laser off) is added.
This is currentl working as expected, but I like to simplify it a bit (because I didn't like to make changes in the CAM code of an dedicated program if there is no need)

And here is my Question: Is there a pin in linuxCNC where I can get the information if the move is a rapid move or not? so I can put the logic to swich the laser on and off into the linuxCNC part?

Thanks for any ideas.
Rainer

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5 years 11 months ago #190333 by Aciera
Maybe this is useful?

motion.motion−type OUT S32

These values are from src/emc/nml_intf/motion_types.h

0: Idle (no motion)

1: Traverse

2: Linear feed

3: Arc feed

4: Tool change

5: Probing

6: Rotary axis indexing

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

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5 years 11 months ago #190355 by RKtech
Thank you for your hint, this was exactly what I was looking for (I have several times read this man page but I always over read this motion-type).

With type 2 and 3 I got what I need, and with this HAL config
Code:
setp wcomp.0.min 1.9 setp wcomp.0.max 3.1 net machine-motion-type-s32 motion.motion-type => conv-s32-float.0.in net machine-motion-type-float conv-s32-float.0.out => wcomp.0.in net laser-active-motion <= wcomp.0.out
I have TRUE/FALSE in the "laser-active-motion" signal and that's what I need. THX

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5 years 11 months ago #190360 by tommylight
Well that was quick ! :)
Nicely done.

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5 years 11 months ago #190361 by Aciera
Thanks for sharing that.

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