Manncorp ECM93 Pick and Place

Very nice, thank you.

tommylight wrote:

rodw wrote:

Plasmac is an example of one massive component that does many unrelated things at once. With the number of issues I am seeing reported recently, perhaps it is now so complex its hard to maintain. There is a lesson in that. But it is a very magical system!

I agree.

Plasmac / Plasma is possibly an argument for additional "tasks" in LinuxCNC.
Currently everything runs "milltask". I don't know what files make up "milltask". It might be all of them.

There is also the option of pluggable interpreters. G-code is almost certainly the right language for Plasma, as G-code is extensively used with those already. But I can see an argument for a dedicated PnP interpreter to operate directly on .pos / cpl / centroid files.

(Such an interpreter could (probably) automatically add the required pick, place, feed moves to the queue, including the toggling of the pneumatics. It is possible that picking parts and checking the vacuum (part presence) is enough like a tool-change tool-changed handshake that the existing code and pins there can be used.

Yeah when i started the new shop i was paying 0.7 euro per KG of steel, now it got to 1.6 !
It is literally hampering everything.

No arduino where LinuxCNC reigns !