Hi All,
This is my first time here to post. I've come in search of some assistance to my situation. I'm not greatly experienced with cnc, however I have made a few machines from scratch and also converted a mini-mill. They all work fine and I'm quite happy with them. The situation I have is that now I have built a robotic arm ( I like it too!!) I would be happier if I could use it to load and unload stock/parts from the mill. (while I'm in the Bahamas or where ever). The robot, I figure would still run on a separate system; as it is a 6 axis arm, but I need to tell it when it is ok to load/unload. This I could do with any aux out and mcode, but I would need to pause the gcode while it waits for the new stock, and then when the arm is done loading I need to have the gcode resume.
How to a pause the gcode?
How do I resume gcode by an external pin input?
Thank you for any help,
Paul