Originally Posted by
callouscade
Hey guys!
I'm about to embark on adding an automatic tool changer to a few machines I have running on Mach3 right now. However, I'm running out of ports! I plan to build my own ATC, so for me it would be easiest to have an arduino control the whole process. I honestly know nothing yet about adding the macros to Mach3, but I'm wondering if the way I'm thinking would work:
Is it possible to have Mach3 simply give an output to activate the tool change, and then wait for an input that says it's done?
This way I would have everything on the Arduino, it would be told to start a tool change, and then it would tell the controller it finished--all using relays for logic input to Mach3 to counter the different logic voltages between the controllers.
Thanks in advance!