I just purchased a Kflop with Kanalog to retro fit on to a large gantry drill.
This machine has old NSK motors in torque mode and linear scales on the X, W(dual drive) and Y axis and a standard ball screw on the Z.

I had some questions about dual loop before and I think they have been answered, but let me know if there might be anything else to watch out for or where to start.

Now the question I have is that this machine has hydraulic motion clamps.
It is used with G81 drilling cycle 90% of the time and our code issues a M15 once in the beginning of the code that activates the motion clamps.

The way they work is the machine positions the X and Y to the hole to be drilled, a output is activated that clamps the machine, the Z begins drilling, they drill retracts then the clamps are turned off and the machine moves to the next hole.

What would be the best way to implement this with the Kflop? I am planning on writing my own GUI for this machine and if it works well we have 2 more of the same machine that could use this upgrade.


Thanks
Dave