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Dual motor support for self-squaring gantry homing.

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- New dual motor support feature for gantry CNC machines. An axis motor is  efficiently mirrored to a dedicated set of step and direction pins (D12/D13 or A3/A4) with no detectable loss of performance. Primarily used to independently home both sides of a dual-motor gantry with a pair of limit switches (second shared with Z-axis limit pin). When the limit switches are setup correctly, Grbl will self-square the gantry (and stay square if $1=255 is programmed). Beware use at your own risk! Grbl is not responsible for any damage to any machines.

- Dual axis motors is only supported on the X-axis or Y-axis. And deletes the spindle direction(D13) and optional coolant mist (A4) features to make room for the dual motor step and direction pins.

- Dual axis homing will automatically abort homing if one limit switch triggers and travels more than 5% (default) of the non-dual axis max travel setting. For example, if the X-axis has dual motors and one X-axis triggers during homing, Grbl will abort 5% of the Y-axis max travel and the other X-axis limit fails to trigger. This will help keep any misconfigurations or failed limit switches from damaging the machine, but not completely eliminate this risk. Please take all precautions and test thouroughly before using this.

- Dual axis motors supports two configurations:

- Support for Arduino CNC shield clones. For these, step/dir on pins D12/D13, and spindle enable is moved to A3 (old coolant enable), while coolant enable is moved to A4 (SDA pin). Variable spindle/laser mode option is NOT supported for this shield.

- Support for Protoneer CNC Shield v3.51. Step/dir on pins A3/A4, and  coolant enable is moved to D13 (old spindle direction pin). Variable spindle/laser mode option IS supported for this shield.

- Added Bob's CNC E3 and E4 CNC machine defaults.
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Sonny Jeon 2019-07-30 21:51:49 -04:00
parent bb25d2f97e
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@ -38,15 +38,16 @@
#define EXEC_SLEEP bit(7) // bitmask 10000000
// Alarm executor codes. Valid values (1-255). Zero is reserved.
#define EXEC_ALARM_HARD_LIMIT 1
#define EXEC_ALARM_SOFT_LIMIT 2
#define EXEC_ALARM_ABORT_CYCLE 3
#define EXEC_ALARM_PROBE_FAIL_INITIAL 4
#define EXEC_ALARM_PROBE_FAIL_CONTACT 5
#define EXEC_ALARM_HOMING_FAIL_RESET 6
#define EXEC_ALARM_HOMING_FAIL_DOOR 7
#define EXEC_ALARM_HOMING_FAIL_PULLOFF 8
#define EXEC_ALARM_HOMING_FAIL_APPROACH 9
#define EXEC_ALARM_HARD_LIMIT 1
#define EXEC_ALARM_SOFT_LIMIT 2
#define EXEC_ALARM_ABORT_CYCLE 3
#define EXEC_ALARM_PROBE_FAIL_INITIAL 4
#define EXEC_ALARM_PROBE_FAIL_CONTACT 5
#define EXEC_ALARM_HOMING_FAIL_RESET 6
#define EXEC_ALARM_HOMING_FAIL_DOOR 7
#define EXEC_ALARM_HOMING_FAIL_PULLOFF 8
#define EXEC_ALARM_HOMING_FAIL_APPROACH 9
#define EXEC_ALARM_HOMING_FAIL_DUAL_APPROACH 10
// Override bit maps. Realtime bitflags to control feed, rapid, spindle, and coolant overrides.
// Spindle/coolant and feed/rapids are separated into two controlling flag variables.
@ -131,6 +132,9 @@ typedef struct {
uint8_t step_control; // Governs the step segment generator depending on system state.
uint8_t probe_succeeded; // Tracks if last probing cycle was successful.
uint8_t homing_axis_lock; // Locks axes when limits engage. Used as an axis motion mask in the stepper ISR.
#ifdef ENABLE_DUAL_AXIS
uint8_t homing_axis_lock_dual;
#endif
uint8_t f_override; // Feed rate override value in percent
uint8_t r_override; // Rapids override value in percent
uint8_t spindle_speed_ovr; // Spindle speed value in percent