Hi Everyone,
Thanks for your posts!
The preparity command 'G40' does not seem universal/standard for cancellling a 'tool offset' so I am looking into the possibility that when the memory was lost, and subsequently reloaded, they did not 'tell' the control what it was, or selected the wrong description of control.
With Siemens System 8, after clearing all memory, amongst many other things you have to 'boot up' holding the 'input' button and a numerical button from 1 to 5. This tells the processor what type of System 8 control it is.
eg.
'input + 2' = "8M Sprint"
'input + 5' = "8M"
and there are others for 8T, 8MC etc....
The reason I am 'down this road' is because of a simple comment I read on one of many photocopies of G Codes for Sys 8.
One copy (but not others) said.....
"G40 = Cancel Tool Offset" (8M Only)"
I have to hold on to the fact that the L.progs and P.Progs have not been changed.
Regards, Richard |