Hi all. I recently got a new-to-me 2010 SMM2 with the Renishaw WIPS. First Haas for me, so I'm starting from scratch.
I was starting to learn about setting tools with the WIPS system today and ran into something that seems odd. I'm setting up a 1/4" endmill (I've set machine to metric, so I'm setting a 6.35mm endmill). I ran the "auto length only" program in VQC and it went fine. Then I tried running "auto length and diameter". It seemed to work fine - spun backwards, touched off in Z, then went down off to the side of the tool setter and touched off on both sides of the endmill. Afterwards, the measured length seems good. But, for some reason, I'm seeing a *very* small value in the D(DIA)Geometry tab of the tool offset table. The value I'm seeing is 0.031mm (pic below of tool offset screen). I've watched a few videos of the tool setting process and it seems like you should get something close to the *total diameter* of the tool (right?), not some tiny value like this. The 0.031 value seems more like a measurement of wear or something.
So, my guestion is, is something wrong here? Should I in fact see the total diameter of the tool in the D(DIA)GEOMETRY column? If so, any ideas as to what's going on?
As a side note - the machine sat idle for a couple months after I got it (long story) and it drained the motherboard batteries. I installed the external battery holder and then had a tech come to re-boot the machine, update the software, reset the SMTC, etc. The tech told me he reset the WIPS system too, but I haven't verified that myself. Maybe he messed something up? Or, is there a setting somewhere that would explain the tiny value I'm seeing for tool diameter? Sorry if this is super basic or if I'm missing something very obvious. Thanks for any thoughts.
I was starting to learn about setting tools with the WIPS system today and ran into something that seems odd. I'm setting up a 1/4" endmill (I've set machine to metric, so I'm setting a 6.35mm endmill). I ran the "auto length only" program in VQC and it went fine. Then I tried running "auto length and diameter". It seemed to work fine - spun backwards, touched off in Z, then went down off to the side of the tool setter and touched off on both sides of the endmill. Afterwards, the measured length seems good. But, for some reason, I'm seeing a *very* small value in the D(DIA)Geometry tab of the tool offset table. The value I'm seeing is 0.031mm (pic below of tool offset screen). I've watched a few videos of the tool setting process and it seems like you should get something close to the *total diameter* of the tool (right?), not some tiny value like this. The 0.031 value seems more like a measurement of wear or something.
So, my guestion is, is something wrong here? Should I in fact see the total diameter of the tool in the D(DIA)GEOMETRY column? If so, any ideas as to what's going on?
As a side note - the machine sat idle for a couple months after I got it (long story) and it drained the motherboard batteries. I installed the external battery holder and then had a tech come to re-boot the machine, update the software, reset the SMTC, etc. The tech told me he reset the WIPS system too, but I haven't verified that myself. Maybe he messed something up? Or, is there a setting somewhere that would explain the tiny value I'm seeing for tool diameter? Sorry if this is super basic or if I'm missing something very obvious. Thanks for any thoughts.