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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: DanieGouws on August 09, 2022, 03:38:55 PM

Title: Mach3 M6 for ATC requires a Cycle Start to continue after tool change
Post by: DanieGouws on August 09, 2022, 03:38:55 PM

Hi All,

I have recently added a winerack-style ATC for my OMNI CNC router. In the Mach3 configuration I have selected "Auto Tool Changer"; my gcode is generated from VCarve using the Mach3 ATC mm post-processor. All my tool-changing code is in the M6Start macro, the M6End macro is basically empty. The tool-change code in my g-code that is created by the post-processor looks something like:
End of previous tool routine ....
N450 M09
N460 T3M6
N470 G43H3
N480 S12000M03
N490 M08
Start of new tool routine ...

The M6Start routine seems to work perfectly: the previous tool is stored and new tool is collected but then the machine gets stuck after line N460 or N470 and it requires a Cycle Start to continue. My question is what is required for Mach3 to automatically continue using the next tool?

Any inputs or ideas would be highly appreciated.

Kind regards

Danie

Title: Re: Mach3 M6 for ATC requires a Cycle Start to continue after tool change
Post by: Graham Waterworth on August 10, 2022, 06:10:07 PM

It Could be a setting in the 'General config'

Title: Re: Mach3 M6 for ATC requires a Cycle Start to continue after tool change
Post by: DanieGouws on August 11, 2022, 02:31:03 AM

Hi

Thank you for the reply. That setting was set correctly......

Regards
Danie