I have added a virtual tool at the house but this can lead to problems if I'm not careful. Then download that at the home computer so the latest is at the house. I typically end my sessions at the machine by uploading the current tool table to PP HUB. One of these years I'll grab a USB extension cable for the direct hook up. Bore you with more details, my tool cart is about 4 feet from the USB plug and I have a 3 ft. The height gauge can be plugged into a USB port so the length is directly dumped to the tool table, but I just type the value in manually. I have an electronic tool setter, but for one tool find it quicker to set it on the Tormach surface plate and find the length with a height gauge. If I need to add a new tool or change an end mill for a given tool, I'll do that in the shop. The machine needs to know the length of your tools to establish Z. Then upload my finished routine to PP HUB which can then be downloaded and archived on our home computer.Īnother nice feature is your tool tables can be imported & exported.
If some debugging is required at the machine, I'll do it there with G-edit (part of the control software). Login to Tormach, download my files from PP HUB to the machine controller and go at it. If it looks good on the virtual machine (PP gives you a live view of the machine running through its path(s)), I go out to the shop and fire up the 1100. I'm still a manual G-code programmer and find it much more convenient to type in my routines and run them virtually from our home computer than at the actual machine. PP HUB lets me log onto my account from our home computer and sit at a virtual machine.
It's free, go to their website and sign up to establish an account. The other HUGE plus with internet is Tormach has something called "PathPilot HUB". I believe you can also download the update files to a jump drive and load them to your controller that way too. I'm given the option of downloading the update (for free). When I boot my machine, it pings home and lets me know if there's a new version out there. My shop has internet which I would HIGHLY recommend if you are going with a Tormach and PP. I have a DVD out in the shop someplace that may be PP 2.0. Don't quote me on this, but I think the jump from PP 1.0 to PP2.0 required a paid upgrade from Tormach.
Click to expand.PathPilot was already loaded on my controller, probably around version 2.3.
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