Hey, I have a bridgeport vmc 760/22 with a dx32 controller. I have been trying to figure out how to load a freakin tool into the carousel for a few days now. I have a program I want to run that uses 4 different tools and I need to load them into the carousel before I run the program. I have run the program in the machine without any tools in the magazine and the mill seems to execute the code correctly. The problem is that I don't know how to load the tools into the magazine. When I go to the tool change screen I have only two options, load magazine and home carousel. I can put a tool in the spindle manualy no problem, but then when I hit the load magazine option the carousel just comes over to the spindle at whatever height the spindle is currently at and then just stops at the spindle. I have read through all the manuals I posses and none of them have anything about how to load tools manually. Also the program that I load into the machine has the tool definitions and it loads them correctly. If anyone can shed some light on this issue for me, that would be great.
Here is the first couple of lines from the program if that helps...
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N01;BOBCAD1.NC
N02;MON. 04/09/2012 07:27PM
N03;BRIDGEPORT DX-32 VMC
N04T1/5./0.5
N05T2/5./0.25
N06T3/5./0.25
N07T4/5./0.5
N08G70
N09G90G80G17
N10;JOB 1 POCKET
N11;FEATURE POCKET
N12T1M06
N13S1252M03
N14G00G54X1.05Y0.8Z0.1