Another plasma component...

Rod

I am actually pretty good at manipulating how we generate income or profits and the tax we have to pay on them. When you don't have outside investors or need maximum liability protection here there are better forms of organizing entities to avoid double taxation and tax free savings limitations. The problem I have is that the limits while drawing SSI are total income from all sources before adjustments not just earned income.

Phill

Why is the plasmac.skip_ihs_type pin a float type? At least for now it only has two states and can be bit (boolean) type. My control switch is causing LinuxCNC to crash because of this. I guess I will need to insert a type conversion component in my hal.

John

Why is the plasmac.skip_ihs_type pin a float type? At least for now it only has two states and can be bit (boolean) type. My control switch is causing LinuxCNC to crash because of this. I guess I will need to insert a type conversion component in my hal.

No particular reason other than my stupidity.
Originally it was to be an S32 as I had four different states.
I will fix that. You would prefer 0 for skip if near last successful probe and 1 for skip if near end of last, is that correct?

Cheers, Phill.

Phill

I changed plasmac.skip-ihs-type to a bit type and did a dry run using the 30/04/19 posting and it looked like it worked correctly.

Yes, you are correct, for my install plasmac.skip-ihs-type == THC enable == 1 == skip from end of cut will let me get rid of an extra NOT component. Please just keep me posted about changes so I can fix my .hal files.

I will be busy with meetings and some more design work in the morning and early afternoon tomorrow so I may not get to live cutting until Sunday. Lawn and packing up work in afternoon and off island market all day on Saturday.

John

Tool Handling, episode next

Don't use an internal LinuxCNC tool table at all.
Use the materials file with an unlimited number of 'tools'
When the tool is loaded set a global named parameter (say #<_kerf_width>)
Use G41.1 and G42.1 for cutter compensation (G41.1 D#<_kerf_width>)

Would that work for anyone...

If this is the way to go then it would be [strike]better[/strike] necessary to change the format of the materials file from: to: This would mean when selecting something manually you would need to do it by tool number.
It may even be better to ditch the material name and call it plasmac_tool.tbl or similar.
I have include THC enable/disable as it is not much more work to integrate that into the other changes.

I do have a working proof of concept with 112 tools so far but there is quite a bit more work to do to get it to a finished state.

Cheers, Phill.

I have pushed an update to modify IHS skip

Affects:
plasmac.comp - you will need to run make
all ini files - IHS skip type are invertered

Cheers, Phill.

Tool table revisited:

I don't know why we did not think of this before. What if there was only one entry in the tooltable (T1) and it was updated whenever a drop down selection was made in Plasmac.

If you wanted to set your own tool in gcode, then you could use T2 and above.

Would that work?