thunderskunk
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Nov 13, 2018
- Location
- Middle-of-nowhere
Evenin' folks,
OK, tool probe installed, level, wired, getting feedback from PLC DGN, life is good.
I'm trying to set the silly thing up in the parameters. The manual says G900 is the distance from the table to the probe, G901 and G902 being the X-Y positions, G903 changes whether the offset is from the spindle or the bottom of the machine (mine is a high column, 300mm), G904 being breakage detection tolerance, G905 being overrun distance,and G906 being the total gage line to table surface (being 300mm in this instance).
When I have it set with G900 in inches, I get a SETTING DATA ERROR #900, which means the height of my switch is too small. My first thought is that it must be in millimeters not inches, so I convert it (but left X and Y in inches). The program now progresses to a point where my tool moves in X and Y to center over the probe, but then gets a DATA ERROR B without budging in Z, which means my B value is too short. The tool was 3.5 inches long, so I simply put B3.5 in the probe command. This is where things don't quite add up; my X and Y parameters were in inches, and that worked perfectly. If I have to convert all of my tool length estimates to metric for every probing, it's going to get old real quick. Changing G903 and G906 didn't seem to make any difference either.
Does anyone understand where the operator error lies here? I know I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what. My tool probe is set very high in the machine, but it has to be since it's a high column machine and some tools won't reach if I go any lower.
Added: It's a Fanuc Robodrill D21iDL with 16i control, TS27R tool probe, and a generic Fanuc tool length measurement macro. Pretty sure it's identical to the one in the manual.
OK, tool probe installed, level, wired, getting feedback from PLC DGN, life is good.
I'm trying to set the silly thing up in the parameters. The manual says G900 is the distance from the table to the probe, G901 and G902 being the X-Y positions, G903 changes whether the offset is from the spindle or the bottom of the machine (mine is a high column, 300mm), G904 being breakage detection tolerance, G905 being overrun distance,and G906 being the total gage line to table surface (being 300mm in this instance).
When I have it set with G900 in inches, I get a SETTING DATA ERROR #900, which means the height of my switch is too small. My first thought is that it must be in millimeters not inches, so I convert it (but left X and Y in inches). The program now progresses to a point where my tool moves in X and Y to center over the probe, but then gets a DATA ERROR B without budging in Z, which means my B value is too short. The tool was 3.5 inches long, so I simply put B3.5 in the probe command. This is where things don't quite add up; my X and Y parameters were in inches, and that worked perfectly. If I have to convert all of my tool length estimates to metric for every probing, it's going to get old real quick. Changing G903 and G906 didn't seem to make any difference either.
Does anyone understand where the operator error lies here? I know I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what. My tool probe is set very high in the machine, but it has to be since it's a high column machine and some tools won't reach if I go any lower.
Added: It's a Fanuc Robodrill D21iDL with 16i control, TS27R tool probe, and a generic Fanuc tool length measurement macro. Pretty sure it's identical to the one in the manual.