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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need more IO with Mach? How about 91 with Modbus.
« on: February 03, 2007, 10:44:52 AM »
Great work!!
People that have machines with automatic tool changers would really benefit from the CUBLOC as it can takes care of all the PLC fuctions to make the tool change, depending on the style of ATC. Some thing like in the case of my tool changer (rotate the spindle to a specific location, keep track of the tool in spindle and update the DRO in Mach3 screen, release the draw bar, tool chage arm comes out takes the old tool from spindle and puts it back in the tool carousel, indexes carousel to the next needed tool, tool change arm takes the new tool and puts it in the spindle, draw bar pulled back, update the DRO in Mach3 with the new tool number, and start the g-code program from there.) And it can also keep an eye the process make sure things didn't jamb or tool didn't fall out.
People that have machines with automatic tool changers would really benefit from the CUBLOC as it can takes care of all the PLC fuctions to make the tool change, depending on the style of ATC. Some thing like in the case of my tool changer (rotate the spindle to a specific location, keep track of the tool in spindle and update the DRO in Mach3 screen, release the draw bar, tool chage arm comes out takes the old tool from spindle and puts it back in the tool carousel, indexes carousel to the next needed tool, tool change arm takes the new tool and puts it in the spindle, draw bar pulled back, update the DRO in Mach3 with the new tool number, and start the g-code program from there.) And it can also keep an eye the process make sure things didn't jamb or tool didn't fall out.