Re: Automatic tool changing ?

[Jon Elson <jmelson-at-artsci.wustl.edu>]

Max Heise wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> > Well, I don't think this is completely implemented.  but, there are c++ routines
> > in there now for xxToolChange.cc and such, that add some new states and
> > variables to EMC.
> Where do I have to look for xxToolChange.cc ? Using a combination of find piped
> to grep I haven't even found the word "toolchange" at all. And I was searching
> case insensitive.

OK, I may be imagining it, I confess I didn't look it up.  But, I'd swear there
was a beginning stub of code to take tool change requests.  I will have the
EMC machine up this weekend, and will poke around and see if it shows up.
There are a whole bunch of stubs that have been added over time, for
machine control functions.  There is stuff for automated lubing, and pallet
changing, and stuff that is going to be very machine dependent.  There are
for the most part just stubs or templates to be properly filled in for specific
machines.

Jon