First: I hope everyone is well and not suffering from the deadly Covid.
[I have MASSO G3 and version 3.46 (latest I believe). I'm running a CNC Router (3D Tek Heavy Mill]
I have Auto Tool Zero set up. It has worked okay but, I recently set up Auto Tool Changing and for some reason things have gone south.
Sequence of failure: I load a file. I Home the system. I set the axis to zero for the job. I CTL+R and then CTL+S. the spindle moves to the Auto Zero location and zeroes the bit. It then dwells for a few seconds before moving to the job. When tool #1 completes the system dwells and requests tool #2. I change the tool, (I don t have mechanical ATC system), myself and hit CTL+S. The spindle moves to the Auto Tool Zero location and auto-zeroes. Then the spindle carriage rises up the Z axis and slams into the hard limit switch ( slams is a bit dramatic but, you know what I mean). That s it. After that I have no control. I have to reboot MASSO. Once rebooted I can t continue the job as MASSO does not request a tool change so, I go for a beer.
The only way I can complete jobs is to save each tool as an individual file. I can then run the job totally manual.
I know I am at fault. I just can t figure out where? I ve gone through Homing and revisited all the general settings and all are good (at least I think so). I ve reset Auto Tool Zero and Changer a few times with a variety of settings and the same problem occurs each time a tool needs to be changed and zeroed. The Z axis slams into the top limit switch and triggers the Z-Axis Limit warning. After that, it s beer time again.
I need to get this sorted for two reasons. 1) If I don t I will become an alcoholic, 2) The time taken to do a job is unreasonable (and, three, I'm not making best use of the systems).
Any help or suggestions will be very much appreciated.
In the meantime, keep safe and well folks.
[I have MASSO G3 and version 3.46 (latest I believe). I'm running a CNC Router (3D Tek Heavy Mill]
I have Auto Tool Zero set up. It has worked okay but, I recently set up Auto Tool Changing and for some reason things have gone south.
Sequence of failure: I load a file. I Home the system. I set the axis to zero for the job. I CTL+R and then CTL+S. the spindle moves to the Auto Zero location and zeroes the bit. It then dwells for a few seconds before moving to the job. When tool #1 completes the system dwells and requests tool #2. I change the tool, (I don t have mechanical ATC system), myself and hit CTL+S. The spindle moves to the Auto Tool Zero location and auto-zeroes. Then the spindle carriage rises up the Z axis and slams into the hard limit switch ( slams is a bit dramatic but, you know what I mean). That s it. After that I have no control. I have to reboot MASSO. Once rebooted I can t continue the job as MASSO does not request a tool change so, I go for a beer.
The only way I can complete jobs is to save each tool as an individual file. I can then run the job totally manual.
I know I am at fault. I just can t figure out where? I ve gone through Homing and revisited all the general settings and all are good (at least I think so). I ve reset Auto Tool Zero and Changer a few times with a variety of settings and the same problem occurs each time a tool needs to be changed and zeroed. The Z axis slams into the top limit switch and triggers the Z-Axis Limit warning. After that, it s beer time again.
I need to get this sorted for two reasons. 1) If I don t I will become an alcoholic, 2) The time taken to do a job is unreasonable (and, three, I'm not making best use of the systems).
Any help or suggestions will be very much appreciated.
In the meantime, keep safe and well folks.
