ATC Strange Behaviour

[deanr181]

Hi Masso support.

I finally got my ATC running but have noticed a few strange things as follows:

• After the tool change has happened, the spindle moves out from the tool hooks and then pauses for a set period before moving on to the tool height sensor. I have found that the pause is related to the delay for the spindle wind up or wind down period. It is though after the tool change, the machine pauses thinking the spindle is either starting up or slowing down before moving to the next step. It should just move direct to the tool height sensor without any pause.
  

• The second issue is that if on the way to do a tool change I hit the Esc button to stop the machine (for any reason), Masso will change the tool display to the tool i was going to change to, even though it has not yet unloaded the first tool. For example: If I have tool 3 in the spindle and i want tool 8, using the MDI I type in T8 M06, the machine will traverse to put back tool 3, but even before the tool 3 gets to the tool rack i press the esc button, the machine will stop and then it will display tool 8 in the on screen display. This should not change until it knows it has unloaded the tool and selected the next tool. If i had not seen this, I would hate to thing what would have happened.
  

• The 3rd issue is part to do with the 2nd part in that I cannot for the life of me work out how to change the displayed tool back to the tool number that is still in the spindle. Do you have a procedure i can follow to do this so that i dont have to climb inside my machine to manually remove tools and swap them over.
  

My unit is G3-6562 and I am using the Linear Tool Changer.

The only sensors I am using are the Clamp / Unclamp in the spindle as i dont have any movable dust hood or tool rack etc.

Thanks

Regards

Dean

 

[masso-support]

Hi Dean,

Can you please post your settings file so I can have a look at the tool changer setup.

Cheers Peter

 

[masso-support]

Hi Dean,

Just wanted to let you know that we have now confirmed the delay between retrieving the new tool and moving to the touch off and it has been fixed.

The logic has also been changed so that if you hit ESC before the tool change is completed the tool number will not update so you should not have the tool change issue in the future.

These will be in the next software update.

Cheers Peter

 

[deanr181]

Excellent, thanks Peter.