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General Mach Discussion / Re: Swapping computer systems

« on: July 25, 2012, 04:32:35 AM »

i've not tried to transfer a complete mach from one computer to another, but i would have thought you'd need to go through the installation on the second to load mach correctly.
One thing i have noticed though, don't try to replace the original xml with the stored one when mach is running, make sure mach is off.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: More toolholders than space in the ATC carousel

« on: July 22, 2012, 08:26:56 AM »

oops hit the wrong button

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General Mach Discussion / Re: More toolholders than space in the ATC carousel

« on: July 22, 2012, 08:25:47 AM »

The basic procedure for the triac is:

1 Slow spindle to x rpm and look for spindle sensor then stop
2 home axis
3 set z to toolchange height
4 carousel in
5 see carousel in switch
6 release tool clamp
7 down carousel
8 see carousel down switch
9 rotate carousel to tool position
10 see carousel tool position switch
11 carousel up
12 see carousel up switch
13 clamp tool
14 carousel out
15 see carousel out switch
end

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General Mach Discussion / Re: More toolholders than space in the ATC carousel

« on: July 22, 2012, 08:18:58 AM »

i have working macros for the triac atc 6 and 8 station.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: More toolholders than space in the ATC carousel

« on: July 19, 2012, 07:13:23 PM »

it's because of this thread that i looked into it, i previously used the g43h value to set the tools from nine onwards

What a great forum this is.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: More toolholders than space in the ATC carousel

« on: July 19, 2012, 06:45:30 PM »

ok i looked into this with a friend and he came up with the modulus command, which handles this well in the macro

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General Mach Discussion / Re: More toolholders than space in the ATC carousel

« on: July 18, 2012, 07:04:19 AM »

not sure if this will play up in cam programs though?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: More toolholders than space in the ATC carousel

« on: July 18, 2012, 07:01:56 AM »

so you'd have h1 - h6 in row 1, and h7 - h12 in row 2

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General Mach Discussion / Re: More toolholders than space in the ATC carousel

« on: July 18, 2012, 06:59:51 AM »

Keep the tools in rows of 6 and call the tools as t1 - t6, then id the tools with h1 - h999

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Novamill

« on: July 12, 2012, 11:39:38 AM »

Here's the video of Auto Tool Changer in action.

http://youtu.be/eEu08sZhiSc

Zafar

was the lid control original, or did you add it. It works well.