Not at all, dont think anyone would think bad of you for mentioning that If the original controls are working and are good enough to do all you want then you would be daft swapping them out.
Hood

Still playing with the tool changer and setting it up. We're getting there !

The turret has 8 positions and I have about 16 tools mounted in their holders to use depending on the job.
When running the program I call tool number and offset  eg T0215  All ok.

But for setting up and manual changes,  I find typing in T0306 etc in to the MDI a bit slow and can easily lead to typing related errors !
So, I have an array of 8 buttons on screen that select tool change position and these work fine. Click and the turret moves to home position and turns to the appropriate slot 1 to 8
(Screen grab attached)
For the tool offsets, I've also got a parallel set of user DRO's 1101 to 1108 (shown above the tool position buttons) which I can type in the offset number of the tool in the particular slot.
But I can't get the macro to update the Current Tool number DRO with that shown in my 'Tool Offset' user DRO.

The code in the No1 turret position button is -

Code "G91 G28 X0 Z0"
Code "T0100"
SetCurrentTool(GetUserDRO(1101))
Code "G90"

Which I was hoping the above would move the turret to slot 1 and then uptate the current tool to the number in the UserDro 1101
and set the correct tool offset for that tool.
I'd appreciate any help / suggestions where I'm going wrong or better ways to approach this .
Thanks , Dave.

What you need to do is call the offset number as well as the tool number, so just calling Code "T0100" will move turret to slot 1 but will load offset zero, ie no offset. You need to call T0150 if you want offset 50.
Hood

Thanks for the reply Hood -

For the Turret position1 button, I want the offset number to come in from the UserDRO 1101  ( I've typed a number 2 in that DRO to test)  and not 'hard coded' in the macro.

All attempts so far not worked

Thanks
Dave.

Try something like this


Offset = GetOemDRO(1101)

Code "T02" & Offset

Unfortunately that sets to current tool to 0.  Looks like the & Offset doesn't get appended on to the T01
Humm.. might have to sleep on this one.
Dave

Sorry I had OEM(802) in my first posting but later edited, Try

Offset = GetUserDRO(1101)

Code "T01" & Offset

Should work fine assuming your M6start macro is working as it should
Hood

BTW reason I had OEM(802) was because I was testing it and instead of adding a DRO  to the screen I just used the Z DRO
Hood

With the button as this -

Code "G91 G28 X0 Z0"
Offset = GetOemDRO(1101)
Code"T01" & Offset
Code "G90"

The Current Tool Dro is set to 0


This seems to nearly work

Code "G91 G28 X0 Z0"
Code"T0100"
Offset = GetOemDRO(1101)
SetCurrentTool(Offset)
Code "G90"

I can see the value of OemDro(1101) flash up in the Current Tool Dro then revert back to 1. Strange ?

Thanks a lot for your help
Dave.

Try this


Offset = GetOemDRO(1101)


Code "G91 G28 X0 Z0"
While IsMoving()
Wend
Code"T01" & Offset
Code "G90"