For those of you wondering how you may get your ShopBot with a 2nd Z or air drill working with the single head Thermwood output of eCabinets, wonder no more! With a little magic (and a lot of patience) from the ShopBot Beta Team, this all works flawlessly. There is also capability to enable similar funtion with the PRT drill, but without depth adjustability.

Here is a short video where a couple squares and a couple groups of 4 holes are drilled and cut with each axis's tool, then swapped and cut with the other. Spindle is not installed on the second Z, but you can hear start bell and see dust collector switch to A axis prior to "air cutting"

A side benefit is that this "virtual toolchanger' will enable single cutting files for all sheet operations using toolchanger post processors with VCarve Pro and PartsWorks.

I have a couple columns coming out in the near future that explains this better and may help you tweak these files to suit your machines abilities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmYlw...eature=channel
Gary