Need Help!- Tool change without ATC

[Danijel]

Hello,

I have a Mori Seiki with Fanuc 18i-MA, with store and ATC. With 200 position tool table.

Now i'd like to use a new tool (registered in the tool table as T100), and i don't want to put it in the internal store, but to charge it by hand.

with the instruction T0M106 I store the current toll, now I can put the new tool, but how can I "say" to the CNC wich is the new tool charged? on the screen there's still T0.

I tried to write the H and D and it works, but I can't mesure it and store in the tool table.

I analysed the M106 macro:

M9
G8P0
#3=#4003
G90G10L50
N4077R360P1
G11
S10M3
G4X1.1
G91G28Z0
G0G90G53X-790Y-415.
T#4120
M6
G#3
G49
M99

But the "update" of the T in the spindle happens at the M6 line.

someone could help me?

[christinandavid]

Does the machines ATC not allow you to exchange to a vacant tool position? I would do this, then load the tool via the spindle. The H and D do not have to agree with the T.

DP

[underthetire]

Thats a weird Macro someone wrote. To empty the spindle on a Mori, all you need to do is call M33. That will make the spindle tool zero. There is no way I know of unless you assign the tool number to the ATC registry (pot) to get it to display the tool number. Should still work with the H and D code you want though.

[gbowne1]

What is the value in #4003?

I have a 18i-MA too and can change tools with and without the ATC. Requires turning the carousel off. An M code and 9000 program run the nonATC (manual) tool change. I can also swap tools with another, it will pick up whatever tool I call.. grab it with the arm.. spin around.. and instead of
placing it in the spindle it will put it in any pot number I reassign it, as long as it's empty (or can be emptied).

200 tools is an option.

That macro, well.. never seen one like that. I have a library of 50 or so CAT40 tools of different types and sizes but this carousel has less than 30 pots.