Hi, I hope I am posting in the correct place on the forum. We have here a Hardinge Superslant Twin Turret machine - I know what you're thinking, but believe me it was a bargain...
Anyway, we are having some issues with the Live Tooling. I have the Live Tooling example program from the manual that came with the machine, and program is as follows:
S250 M03 - 250RPM, SPINDLE FORWARD
T0505 G04 - INDEX TO STATION 5, DELAY OFFSETS
X50. Z50. - LINEAR MOVE, ENTER TOOL OFFSETS
M19 - SPINDLE ORIENT TO ALLOW INCREMENTAL ORIENT
M45 - SPINDLE ORIENT COMMAND 120DEGREES
S2000 M53 - ROTATE TURRET SPINDLE CLOCKWISE, 2000RPM, COOLANT ON
When the machine reads the M19 code, there is a slight delay and the spindle slows right down and I can hear the pin drop into the spindle to lock it into place. The problem that I have is that after this happens, the "External Message" screen pops up and reads "2007 SPINDLE LOCK PIN ENGAGED". But it halts the program and won't move past that block. If I hit reset, the pin pops back out.
Does anyone have any idea why this may be happening? Perhaps the plunger is not dropping in far enough to lock the spindle?
Anyway, we are having some issues with the Live Tooling. I have the Live Tooling example program from the manual that came with the machine, and program is as follows:
S250 M03 - 250RPM, SPINDLE FORWARD
T0505 G04 - INDEX TO STATION 5, DELAY OFFSETS
X50. Z50. - LINEAR MOVE, ENTER TOOL OFFSETS
M19 - SPINDLE ORIENT TO ALLOW INCREMENTAL ORIENT
M45 - SPINDLE ORIENT COMMAND 120DEGREES
S2000 M53 - ROTATE TURRET SPINDLE CLOCKWISE, 2000RPM, COOLANT ON
When the machine reads the M19 code, there is a slight delay and the spindle slows right down and I can hear the pin drop into the spindle to lock it into place. The problem that I have is that after this happens, the "External Message" screen pops up and reads "2007 SPINDLE LOCK PIN ENGAGED". But it halts the program and won't move past that block. If I hit reset, the pin pops back out.
Does anyone have any idea why this may be happening? Perhaps the plunger is not dropping in far enough to lock the spindle?
