Hi

Newbie question. I have built a machine that does automated plastic welding and drilling.

The welding starts and can not be stopped till it has made its full pass. after the welding is done the drilling goes ahead.

question is, will it be able to weld continually and then the drill can follow while the welder is doing a pass?

I have two axis ( A and Z ) doing the welding with some macros and then ( x and Y ) doing the drilling with some macros.

There are 5 different lengths of product we do.

example code:
F20000
G1 Z1682 A426
M14
M9
M15
G4 P4
M16
G4 P4
F515
G1 Z1702 A446
G1 Z1682 A426
G1 Z2271 A1025
M17
M29
M18
M19
G4 p1
G0 X1280 Y0
M20
M22
M25
M21
M26
M23
G4 P1
G0 X1440 Y160
M20
M22
M25
M21
M26
M23
G4 P1
G0 X1600 Y320
M20
M22
M25
M21
M26
M23
G4 P1
G0 X1760 Y480
M20
M22
M25
M21
M26
M23
G4 P3
G28.1 Z0 A0 X0 Y0
M30

Thanks in advance

 

You only have one planner so so all movement is blended, to be able to move different axis at different speeds and feeds you need multi planner controllers where 2 or more gcode files can be run and synced so that more that one operation can be done.

Mach4 was designed to do this in the industrial version.