Rigid Tapping - Checking soft limits
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:08 pm
What would be the best way to check for a violation of soft-limits on my Z axis prior to actually initiating motion in my rigid tapping program? (it's still just a fairly simple modification of the notifytapMach3 program, I got it working and never got time to make it better(tm) ).
I broke a tap today because as the tapping program plunged, the Z axis soft limit was hit, causing Z motion to feed hold while the spindle kept going
took me 20 minutes to figure that out and now I would like to prevent it from happening in the future BEFORE the tap plunges instead of at the bottom of the hole.
I broke a tap today because as the tapping program plunged, the Z axis soft limit was hit, causing Z motion to feed hold while the spindle kept going
took me 20 minutes to figure that out and now I would like to prevent it from happening in the future BEFORE the tap plunges instead of at the bottom of the hole.