) says you can use a floating tap holder, a rigid tap with spindle reversing, or a self-reversing tap head. But then it says choose between floating or reversing in Intercon. I chose reversing. So, when I run it, it waits until I turn on the spindle, only then will it proceed to move into the part (just tapping air right now, for obvious reasons). I don't have spindle control yet. But, after in reaches the bottom, it just pulls back out. So, obviously I have things I need to get done before this is going to work. I got my signal isolator in today and will order a relay so I can, hopefully, have spindle rpm control and the ability to reverse rotation. Once I have this working, what else do I need to do?
I don't see anything in the g-code from the above Intercon generated file that looks like it will stop the spindle and reverse it. I've looked at the g-code for a part I found which was included in the CNC12 files called Sample_part_1-enc. I believe it's G84 that actually does the tap operation in that file. But I still don't know how the spindle changes direction. Oddly, my test file from above uses G85 which is listed as a boring cycle. Naturally, I am confused by all of this. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
