[MBFisher]

The company I work for has just purchsed a Haas VF3-ss with a side mount tool changer. I know that there is a way to make it pre-stage the tools before each tool change , i.e. the carosel is indexing to the next tool to be changed while it is machining therefore saving time. Does anybody know how to make the machine do this ?

Thanks

Mark

[Rekd]

It should be doing that already. Your program should call the next tool as the current tool starts running.

Here's a sample of one of my prestage programs.

( OPERATION: 3 DRILL )
N37 ( DRILL 2-56 )
N38 G91 G28 Z0
N39 G91 G28 Y0
N40 G90 G00 G52 X-40.
N41 M06(T6: 5/64 DRILL)
(MAX-DEPTH | Z-.5)
N42(OP ID: 3)
N43 M03 S6500
N44 G00 G90 G58 X.5395 Y.115 A0.
N45 G43 H6 Z1. T7
/ N46 M08
N47 Z.1
N48 G98 G83 X.5395 Y.115 Z-.5 R.1 I.1563 J.0391 K.0391 F10.

Note line 41. Tool 6 is current tool running, called with ONLY an M06.

On line 45, (H6 running), calls the next tool with ONLY the T7. This will cause T7 to be rotated to pocket for next tool change.