Hi Alan;
If you had some idea of when you needed to sharpen the
tool, you could schedule a tool Change with a M6 Tn. n being
any number other than the current one. Remove the tool sharpen
and reinstall. Use the Tool-Length-probe .ngc, in the .ngc samples,
(with a touch switch) to measures the new length and resume the
job with the new tool length compensated. This will do great for
end cutter.
If you sharpen a side cutter and doing your compensation in the
G-code then sharpen to the size you planned for in the G-code.
If you sharpen a side cutter and are using cutter radius compensation
then sharpen the tool to the diameter you have previously entered
into the tool table and use that T number for the tool change.
There are several tool length probing samples available where the guys
have used Length-Probing subroutines to call throughout the G-code.
I am finishing a version which compensates for Stock hight, Clamp hight,
Tool length and Switch hight by #<parameters> you enter in the G-code.
If you are interested let me know.
Hope this helps
Don
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Alan Battersby <alan.batter...@ntlworld.com
> wrote:
> Hi,
> I understand that I can add an M6 code at some point in my gcode program
> to manually change a tool. But I want to be able to temporarily stop the
> program when necessary in order to sharpen a cutter. Obviously you
> cannot cater for that with an M6 code. Is there some way I can set up an
> input (button, keyboard key) such that when pressed the program is
> forced into a tool change so I can resharpen my cutter? Sorry if this is
> a simple question but this is the first time I have applications running
> for such a long time that I need to sharpen the cutter part way through.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Alan
>
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