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Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
I operate (and program for) a VMC with a Mitsubishi Meldas M64s control. It is a generic Taiwan-made .5M x 1M (20x40) box-way CAT40 beast.
When a program calls for a tool not currently in the magazine, I have to play musical chairs with the magazine before I even run it. I mostly have to do this for short programs using special tools, and it seems to me that this is the perfect scenario for just manually changing tools. However, I haven't figured out how to do this.
A tool change looks like this:
T13 M06
T128
How can tell the control to ask for a tool in the offsets but not in the magazine? And if this is possible, what is the sequence for going between in-magazine tools and manually changed tools?
I would especially like to set this up for regular use with the tap chuck. Since the same holding can accommodate an endless number of taps, it's silly to keep this holding in the magazine.
When a program calls for a tool not currently in the magazine, I have to play musical chairs with the magazine before I even run it. I mostly have to do this for short programs using special tools, and it seems to me that this is the perfect scenario for just manually changing tools. However, I haven't figured out how to do this.
A tool change looks like this:
T13 M06
T128
How can tell the control to ask for a tool in the offsets but not in the magazine? And if this is possible, what is the sequence for going between in-magazine tools and manually changed tools?
I would especially like to set this up for regular use with the tap chuck. Since the same holding can accommodate an endless number of taps, it's silly to keep this holding in the magazine.