Hi, looking at the altmill to replace my own home made CNC. I come from linuxCNC and it is highly configurable. I’d like to know if I can remap the M6 tool change command or add subroutines? Is there an INI that I can change homing offsets in? What about adding other components like a tool height setter? And is there MDI custom commands I can add?
The alternative that I am looking at is just ripping out the computer components and running it off a mesa board, but I wanted to know if I could save myself the work.
Take a look at the RapidChange ATC offering as an example of what one can do with macros and Sienci AltMill’s grblHAL support for the M6 tool change command. RapidChange on AltMill supports both ATC and tool height setting; they leverage grblHAL and the SLB-Ext supported custom MDI commands, so I expect you can easily do so as well.
In addition, gSender has a macro mechanism that might be of interest, even without a SLB-Ext and grblHal.