Hello,
I'm looking for a means to assign all of our tools their own, unique tool number...3 Fanuc VMC's have a range from 1-400 offsets in their controllers, but are limited to 40 pockets. Is there anyway to program, for example, T144 to a random pocket? Obviously, we'd be limited to 40 tools in the machine at a time, but this would alleviate a lot of confusion on programmers side of assigning tool numbers, and operators side of finding and loading them. How do you all handle this?
I'm looking for a means to assign all of our tools their own, unique tool number...3 Fanuc VMC's have a range from 1-400 offsets in their controllers, but are limited to 40 pockets. Is there anyway to program, for example, T144 to a random pocket? Obviously, we'd be limited to 40 tools in the machine at a time, but this would alleviate a lot of confusion on programmers side of assigning tool numbers, and operators side of finding and loading them. How do you all handle this?