Originally Posted by
Diedesigner
Hi all,
We just acquired a Mitsui Seiki VS5A vmc with a Fanuc 11M control. It is a late Eighties vintage machine (!) with a static ATC, meaning each tool is assigned to it's own pot, and gets put back into that pot when a tool change is called (atc's were less sophisticated back then). Why such an old machine? It has low miles,was extremely low cost, and besides that it has glass scales for accuracy.
I am having an issue trying to change tools within a program. I can change tools in MDI, with the caveat being that in between I have to type in T0 M6 to "park" the tool that is in the spindle back into it's position in the ATC before I can call another tool. Logically I should be able to incorporate the same "park" command in the program before issuing a tool change, but it doesn't work.
I have tried all kinds of variations, both with & without the T0M6 but nothing seems to work. The machine will load the first tool and run it's operation, but freezes up at the next tool change. It doesn't matter if you try a different set of tool numbers.
Example:
O1701
G90G80G54G40G17
T10
G91G30X0Y0Z0M06
S1146M03
G54G0G90X-4.733Y-4.098M08
G43H10Z2.T2
G0X-4.733Y-4.098
G98G81X-4.733Y-4.098Z-0.1R0.1F3.0
X-1.3Y-2.21
X2.343Y-0.768
G80
M09
G91G28Z0M5
M01
T12
G91G30X0Y0Z0M06 <----MACHINE STOPS HERE AND DOES NOTHING (T12 DOES NOT LOAD)
S540M03
G54G0G90X-4.733Y-4.098M08
G43H12Z2.T7
G0X-4.733Y-4.098…
Does anyone have experience with this type of older machine & ATC? Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
-Chris