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- Joined
- Oct 12, 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Our VMC with a Mitsubishi Meldas M64s control has a tool changer with 24 pockets. We have slightly more tools than that, but that's plenty because I want to change some tools manually anyway.
Yesterday I decided to implement a new tool numbering system, and the range is 2-200 (the control allows 200 tools). I won't use 200 tools, but I have them all classified by carbide/hss, solid/insert, metric/imperial, spiral point/spiral flute, etc... you get the idea.
Am I going about this all wrong? How do you number your tools?
I'm doing this because I decided to transition to Solidworks CAM, which is included with Solidworks, from Autodesk HSMWorks, which my student license for was still activated for some reason. I tried HSMXpress, but it doesn't even have chamfering built in. In the meantime I export solids to Fusion 360 just for CAM.
Yesterday I decided to implement a new tool numbering system, and the range is 2-200 (the control allows 200 tools). I won't use 200 tools, but I have them all classified by carbide/hss, solid/insert, metric/imperial, spiral point/spiral flute, etc... you get the idea.
Am I going about this all wrong? How do you number your tools?
I'm doing this because I decided to transition to Solidworks CAM, which is included with Solidworks, from Autodesk HSMWorks, which my student license for was still activated for some reason. I tried HSMXpress, but it doesn't even have chamfering built in. In the meantime I export solids to Fusion 360 just for CAM.