M00 in Tormach Mach 3
All,
When I was playing around with the collet rack I posted about earlier, I discovered that when programming M00 (or M01) using the Tormach provided version of Mach 3, that although the axes stopped the spindle did not.
I exspected, from my reading of the Tormach manual and the Peter Smid programming book, that it would stop. I called Tormach, but the folks I talked to were unsure if that was a function of the controller or something configured in Mach 3.
My question is, does the full up round version of Mach 3 act the same way by default, and is it configuable?
Thanks
Terry
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M0 (zero) does not turn the spindle off on my machine either. You might try an M6 command because the spindle has to be stopped for you to change tools.
When I use multiple tools I always use a M5 and a M9 to turn off the spindle and the coolant.
My program will read something like:
Z1.0 to pull the cutter away from the part, then M9 (coolant off), M5 (spindle off), M998 (move to tool change position, T? (tool number) M6 (tool change).
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Steve, That's exactly what I did, used M 5, in this case I needed to move some clamps, it just surprised me that the M00 didn't work for the spindle.
Terry
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