seeg-vgv/mach4atc

Some modules/macros/screensets for my Mach4 ATC setup

Mach4ATC

These are the changes I made to my Mach4 setup to control ATC and tool probing. Directory structure mimicks the Mach4 layout.

• Screens/AvidCNC_ATC.set

  A modified version of the AvidCNC default screenset, which includes a new "Tool Change" tab. There are scripts associated with the new buttons, panel, etc. It is unfortunately not well commented at the moment

• Modules/mcAutoTool.lua

  A script that ships with Mach4. I made a few small tweaks (annotated in comments) for my needs (adjusted Z offset, take abs() of tool length)

• Profiles/AvidCNC/Modules/ToolChangePositions.lua

  The ATC module, which contains code for m6, replacing, probing and loading tool data from the csv.

• Profiles/AvidCNC/Modules/ToolChangePositions.csv

  The CSV holding tool names, numbers and pocket offsets

• Profiles/AvidCNC/Macros/m6.mcs

  M6 macro, which basically just calls into our ATC m6 module

There are some unrelated changes in the screenset since I have been tweaking, and there are various hard-coded file paths in the scripts (because I was too lazy to figure out how lua does relative paths). So I would not use these scripts directly, but instead use them as reference or inspiration. Goodluck!