> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:10:04 -0500
> From: r...@superiorroll.com
> To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Emc-developers] Tool Not Changed
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Thanks
For completeness I will also say that there is an option to use iocontrol
version 2.
version 2 allows error handling for tool changers.
There is little info on it but there is a demo in sim/axis/iocontrolv2
Chris M
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