Restarting an EIA subprogram

[ajl6549]

How does one do a restart on a mazatrol prog. that has an EIA prog for a sub? (Say you want to restart in the mid. of the EIA sub.)

[doug6949]

I am rather new to Mazatrol, however, I don't think it is possible to start within a sub. Mazak makes things even more difficult with EIA because the control doesn't evaluate program modals when restarting this type of program.

[ajl6549]

Thanks for your response. I found out from mazak that this not possible.

[Razali Md.Hakim]

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[ajl6549]

We are using a 640mt pro control on a 400-3 integrex. The real prob is that the tail stk., chuck, and tool barrier's don't work(at least not very well) with EIA programs. So as a solution we were going to try using our EIA prog. as a sub-program within a Mazatrol prog. This make the barriers work fine, but dosen't allow for a mid-prog. restart from the mazatrol prog. (i.e. we'd have to rerun the whole sub-prog.)

[billder]

Have the EIA program called as current Work #

From the POSITION screen, hit the DSPLAY SELECTOR KEY, (#3 in the Operating Manual) far left key under the screen, until you see:
WORK OFFSET MACRO VARIABLE EIA MONITOR

hit button under EIA MONITOR

cursor to point in EIA program you want to start at, hit the button under RESTART2 NONMODAL

your EIA line will go black background, hit cycle start and you are good to go.
I have used this procediure many times and it works fine on our 640MT-Pro.

REMEMBER to drop RAPID DOWN until you know exactly what your machine will do.

Good Luck Mr. Phelps

[ajl6549]

The EIA prog. is acctually a sub-program of a Mazatrol prog., and in order to have the tail, chuck, and tool barriers working properly, the Mazatrol prog must be the current program.