Coding a LinuxCNC Toolchanger for Dummies

Tips and tricks for driving a 20 position tool changer on a Vertical Milling Machine

[@adammontgomery7980]

Man were you right about reading through the example configs. I was trying to get manual tool change with auto tool probe working. Then I found you can just call M6 from inside the remapped M6 and do a probe after. You've done the lord's work here

[@MechatronCNC-HVM]

Hey thanks for these great videos, non of this stuff was obvious to me either. I've had Linuxcnc for years and never really found much info on how to do anything, I had no idea there were built in examples😆👍

[@JRF76476]

Thanks Erik!! This may be the info I needed to get my toolchanger rolling. I have a machine with PPMC on it also. I always struggled with how to get the physical pins to the virtual pins. My tool changer is somewhat similar to yours. The O code flow path is very close. I am going to work on it some this weekend.

[@my1987toyota]

glad I found this channel I have a couple of projects that require an ATC

[@egemens]

thanks for this good tutorial

[@makeorbreak5887]

What an extremely helpful and concise video. Much appreciated. Btw rs274 is the standard name of 'g code' although most implementations have some sort of differences. 'O' generally denotes the starting character of a program with the following characters being the program number. '#' denotes a macro variable with the following number being the address. Now to take what I've learned here and try it with a lathe turret.

[@eriksalo5550]

Thanks for the info about RS274! That's really helpful.

[@FilterYT]

Thanks, very helpful!

[@cnc-ua]

Thank you so much!

[@idus]

Could you do a spindle orient quick video? Like the Hal pin connections for pid spindle control. This is a great video Thank you

[@allanthomson4639]

thanks Eric much appreciated - linux is great but its almost deliberate that very little is "explained" in context for the hobbyists, what the agenda is behind it is anybodies guess, you have done great for us dumbos

[@griffinnathan476]

sorry to be offtopic but does someone know of a trick to log back into an instagram account?? I stupidly forgot the login password. I would appreciate any tips you can offer me

[@johanemerson307]

@Griffin Nathan instablaster =)

[@griffinnathan476]

@Johan Emerson thanks for your reply. I found the site through google and im waiting for the hacking stuff now. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

[@griffinnathan476]

@Johan Emerson it did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. I am so happy! Thanks so much you saved my ass :D

[@johanemerson307]

@Griffin Nathan you are welcome :)

[@jarema-em7hp]

Witam czy może pan udostępnić pliki konfiguracyjne wymiany narzędzi w linuxcnc , bardzo był bym wdzięczny .

[@seancollins9745]

after venturing down this road, i wrote a whole hal component in C using hal compile.

[@egemens]

for toolchanger?

[@oscarwilbers]

Just a quick (dumb?) question to help me understand: why remap the m6 command? Wouldn't it be possible to get the needed signals from component iocontrol's pins: tool-change, tool-number, tool-prepared, etc?

[@TheFeralEngineer]

I've been curious about that as well