CNC solder paster dispenser - how do I approach this.

[Jonathan]

Brilliant ... that thing you've found is in C, so we can edit it to output exactly what you want!


It's here:

http://dale.chatham.org/Interests/El...p/dose-pro.ulp

It looks like you've outputted the pad co-ordinates not in mm, however there's a selection thing at the beginning of the code so that shouldn't be a problem. I think you'll want the format something like this, but with the right units:

T01
G0 Z5
G0 X000790Y-00460
G0 Z0.2
M8
Px
M9

(so instead of the program outputting just X000790Y-00460, it outputs that with all the above appended)

...for each line. Where M8 macro (looking at mach3, use whatever it is for diycnc) is the coolant pin which you can connect to the dispenser, M9 switches it off. Px, x is the time for the delay using the pad area from the other file multiplied by some constant which you need to work out to get the right time.

I think that should do it?