Disabling the ATC
Posted: Wed 28 Jan , 2015 19:59 pm
Hi
Some of you may recall I had problems getting my ATC to work.
Just to paint the picture and recap.
The head moves up the carousel arm moves in, the head comes down and the drawbar unclamps, the head then moves up clear and there it sits with the carousel arm in the in position until it times out.
Martin has said that the age of my machine will not activate the ATC with VR milling.
Taking the above into account, I need to move on and was hoping to use a tool change written within a program. Something on the lines of..
M00; (program stop)
M24;(Drawbar unclamp/Take tool out by hand)
M00;
M25;(Drawbar Clamp/Put new tool in by hand)
T7; (This would load all the tool library offsets etc.)
M00;
The problem I have now is that when I program using the letter T as above, the carousel moves in as before!
I have tried deselecting the ATC in the machine parameters but doing that then results in the drawbar not working.
Does anyone know if there is away around this or am I resigned to not being able to use VRMilling tooling library.
If somebody has had this before and has a sample program not using the letter T, I would be grateful for a copy.
Regards
Some of you may recall I had problems getting my ATC to work.
Just to paint the picture and recap.
The head moves up the carousel arm moves in, the head comes down and the drawbar unclamps, the head then moves up clear and there it sits with the carousel arm in the in position until it times out.
Martin has said that the age of my machine will not activate the ATC with VR milling.
Taking the above into account, I need to move on and was hoping to use a tool change written within a program. Something on the lines of..
M00; (program stop)
M24;(Drawbar unclamp/Take tool out by hand)
M00;
M25;(Drawbar Clamp/Put new tool in by hand)
T7; (This would load all the tool library offsets etc.)
M00;
The problem I have now is that when I program using the letter T as above, the carousel moves in as before!
I have tried deselecting the ATC in the machine parameters but doing that then results in the drawbar not working.
Does anyone know if there is away around this or am I resigned to not being able to use VRMilling tooling library.
If somebody has had this before and has a sample program not using the letter T, I would be grateful for a copy.
Regards
