Hey C
Thanks for reminding me (your name) how much I miss my 5.Never should have sold it! Anyway, in conversational prog. tool changes (M6) brings the X axis out to home position,..starts to index,.. turns spindle off,.. procedes indexing after the spindle stops,....takes 5 seconds for tool verify/turret check back, then goes on with the program. I trimmed most of the waisted time/movement by writing the prog. in G-code; pulling back min. amount to clear,.. then M21(T-CW), M22(T-CCW). Caution to this is you take the tool verify/turret check back out of the loop, so an operator can get into trouble when starting in mid prog. cause the tool # and offset won't match.
EXample: Tool 3 to 7; I want the spindle to stay on. 30 second part w/4 tools decel/accel takes as lond as cutting. Thanks M
G0X4.
M21
M21
M21T0707 (must call offset)
G96S600M3
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