Need Help!- Macro staments for Tool life and %load

[o_smith]

Greeting to Everyone from Aussie land. I am very pleased to engage with all of you guys
Well to my question. .. I'm fairly new in macros programming I can write simple statements so far canned cycle, etc. I have came across with a new task which is to monitor tool life by spindle load and discard the tool (drill bits) when reaching a pre-established %-load and change the tool to next unused one in the tool magazine and so on. I have a HAAS VF-2 machining centre to run this test. Can anyone be so kind to give me some hints to cope with this task using macros statement?.

Very much appreciated

[Haas_Apps]

Originally Posted by o_smith Greeting to Everyone from Aussie land. I am very pleased to engage with all of you guys Well to my question. .. I'm fairly new in macros programming I can write simple statements so far canned cycle, etc. I have came across with a new task which is to monitor tool life by spindle load and discard the tool (drill bits) when reaching a pre-established %-load and change the tool to next unused one in the tool magazine and so on. I have a HAAS VF-2 machining centre to run this test. Can anyone be so kind to give me some hints to cope with this task using macros statement?. Very much appreciated

I do not know how old your machine is but have you looked at the built in ATM?

[o_smith]

Originally Posted by Haas_Apps I do not know how old your machine is but have you looked at the built in ATM?

It is a 1997 version and It has not got ATM facility built in, there is a tool load monitor instead very limited. But I've been told directly from HAAS' answer man that newer version with ATMs built in does not give us automatic tool disposal as far as spindle load is concern, manual disposal is accepted to move to next tool in the created tool group. It is the reason to utilise macros and come up with a solution....
Cheers!

[Caue]

Try the following:

T#501 M6 (tool call);
... (machining code);
IF [ #[5800+#3026] GE #500] #501= #501 + 1 (at #500 you will manually set tool load limit value);
... (you must repeat it for each tool BEFORE change it to the next)

If it works well, we can create an specific G-Code (using aliasing) for this routine.

Try it and tell us about the result!

[o_smith]

Thanks..... I will get back to you as soon as I get results