Mine only sense which tool its at on the aproach and then drops the locking pin a few ms after getting the signal , at the point the turret is locked in position its not receiveing the signal to know which tool its on , only on aproach . I usualy start and end with tool 12 so when I start mach and launch a program it unlocks the turret , begins to rotate , aprox 3 degrees of rotation the plc sees tool 12 , drops the locking pin and binds the whole turret up . If Mach could simply write what tool was loaded to the xml file when the program was closed and the load that data when restarted it could save me lots of time spent banging my head against the desk .
If it always loads tool one when started , then I will just move tool 12 to position 1, although it would be nice if it would just remeber the last tool loaded.
I do notice when I launch Mach there is no number in the tool number window on screen. Is it tool 1 everytime and just not displayed?