Originally Posted by
Hezz
Hi all, I am new to Enroute and so far am not liking the software very much. Though it has some awesome tools.
This is my question. We have a MultiCAM 1000 with a 9 tool changer. We have the tools defined under the machine settings dialogue box.
But when I programmed a strategy with two different tools from the default tool library it did not seem to assign different tool numbers in the code. Was this because Enroute is not that smart in making a substitute assignment from the tools defined in the machine settings. Or do I need to create a custom tool library that has an exact copy of all of the tools which are in the machine setup tools so that Enroute can properly assign the tool numbers for the strategy.
For a time we had the tools removed from the tool changer but they were still defined in Enroute in the machine tool settings. We were dropping tools due to other problems which we have sinced fixed. Does Enroute talk so much to the controller that it knows when and if the tools are actually in the holders. Assuming the Multicam controller software had the holder defined as not having tools there.
Also, there did not seem, or maybe I missed it, a place to define the tool number in the custom tool library in Enroute.