If your tool changer is ran with classicladder then you can abort the program when all is not well.
JT On 12/18/2015 10:10 AM, Rick Lair wrote: > Hello Guys, > > Hey guys, just wondering how to tell the control, while in the middle of > a tool change sequence, that the tool did not get changed. Reason I ask > is now we are making chips on our machine, and yesterday our program had > a tool change to a tool that was not physically in the carousel, but > still in the tool tool table, so the machine started the tool change > sequence, and hung up, when it did not see the tool loaded into the > spindle. > > I realise that I probably should have deleted the tools in the tool > table that are not physically in the carousel, but this would also be > helpful if maybe during a tool change the tool fell out of the tool > changer arm for some reason, the tool changer arm malfunctioned, the > tool turret on a lathe malfunctioned, anything really. > > Just looking for a way to tell the CNC the tool change did not complete > successfully, and possibly to perform the same operation as hitting the > "ESC" and "F6" keys when initiated, abort a running program, reset the > interpreter, etc. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
