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Automatic Tool Change

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  1. NewbCNC

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    Hi All

    Has anybody got experience with installing automatic tool changer to their CNC?

    I've tried contacting the manufacturers but they haven't been very clear, at-least to me in whether this would work or not?

    I wanted to buy the Ratrig Killerbee > Blackbox control and interface

    Then add an automatic tool changer > I came across stepcraft


    I wonder, would the blackbox control and fusion360 allow me to set up tool locations?

    If not, is it possible to get it to work? and how?

    Thanks
     
  2. Peter Van Der Walt

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    Grbl does not support toolchanges, making it quite difficult to implement.
     
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    #3 NewbCNC, Oct 7, 2022
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  4. Alex Chambers

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    What Fusion 360 license do you have? - the personal use license doesn't allow post processing more than one tool, so you wouldn't be able to implement tool changes with that either.
    Alex.
     
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    Couldn't that be overcome by combining two files manually with the needed/correct GRBL command joining them?
     
  6. Peter Van Der Walt

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    In that scenario, the toolchange may as well be manual too (even if you have a toolchanger, using Macros) in between files. Works fine
     
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