bryan_machine
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 16, 2006
- Location
- Near Seattle
I've now seen or heard a couple of places that folks don't know how to figure out which tools are actually loaded in Haas without some difficult process to inspect the tool changer.
But it turns out you can get a list of what tools the tool table describes, and a list of what tools are loaded into the ATC (with location at the time of query though that of course may change.) At least on the NGC.
(A similar scheme works by dumping the tool table and pocket table on a heidenhain.)
Do most people know this? Are people blocked by the slightly incorrect XML the machine spits out? Should I post the "how to get this to your PC" and "how to transmogrify so you can load it into a spreadsheet" here? (Is it worth a sticky?)
It's not so hard to do with gawk (GNU version of AWK) - which you can download for free....
But it turns out you can get a list of what tools the tool table describes, and a list of what tools are loaded into the ATC (with location at the time of query though that of course may change.) At least on the NGC.
(A similar scheme works by dumping the tool table and pocket table on a heidenhain.)
Do most people know this? Are people blocked by the slightly incorrect XML the machine spits out? Should I post the "how to get this to your PC" and "how to transmogrify so you can load it into a spreadsheet" here? (Is it worth a sticky?)
It's not so hard to do with gawk (GNU version of AWK) - which you can download for free....