M64 Connection to hal

Good afternoon,

I've been using the Axis launcher on my milling machine for hobby purposes. However, I've been following the developments in Probe Basic and liked all the features. I've developed an ATC carousel with 8 tools connected to a servo motor and a pneumatic piston for advancing and retracting when the ATC is activated. I'm using 4 sensors: HOME ATC to position it correctly at the end of the home cycle, a sensor to check if the tool was picked up by the spindle, and the remaining 2 sensors to track the carousel's movement.

I have the entire process completed and functional in Probe Basic. However, I'm struggling with the M64 call (macros) to control the ATC motor, which I defined as axis A in the configuration.

What do I need to do to establish the connection?

Thanks, everyone!

the M64 carousel control is for dumb motors, ie turn on with switch turn off with switch and relay on the sensor feedback to determine when to do that. if you are using a motor requiring step/direction input you should be using the carousel comp method, that has been covered here already in this forum, search for "spumco" who has this working and covered the process inb great detail.

forum.linuxcnc.org/qtpyvcp/49246-16-pock...r-reference?start=10

Thank you!!
At this point I can move the carousel in the ATC GUI, but it still doesn't complete homing correctly. I think it's some issue with assigned inputs. I'll double-check everything and then post the functional configuration here!

At this point, I can move forward the ATC servo motor without the Geneva wheel, I can initiate the Homing cycle, but the motor continues to rotate indefinitely. I have seen and tried to implement the suggestions mentioned in the forum link above, but without success. It still says that home.sense.0 is not assigned as a pin.

The M66 P# you are using is a motion.digital pin and should be assigned to the net  carousel-home-sensor-input (or whatever you named it) and appropriate mesa physical pin input. This is what tells the macro the hone switch has been detected and shuts off the carousel motor rotation with a M65 P# and allows the homing macro to continue to the next step.  Seems somewhere your connections are not passing. 

You should nake a little spreadsheet that defines all of your macro IO's so you can make sure the hal is properly connected and the macros make sense. 

Mine is below for reference only and my system does not uae carousel comp, vut i would imagine its the same or similar.

 

After all, i have now all the stuff going on. I can home my atc and ref it.

I am now configuring and editing my macros. There are any other instruction or i just need to give the path to them in INI file to make them work when i call them in the gui?

The pockets are still empty even with tools in there.

Do I need another sensor? Or there are any way to make tool in pocket check without a sensor?

make sure yourfiles has entries for 3000 -> 4024

the PB ATC tab will only show the tools in pockets after the carousel has been homed

the tools must be loaded in the spindle and then stored in the carousel in order to record what tool is stored in what pocket. it does not "sense" what tools are in pockets but rather tracks them after they have been stored via the toolchange.ngc macro.