Feature Idea

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Tommy Wieler
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Feature Idea

Post by Tommy Wieler »

Just an idea I had...
Add a line of code when the machine calls a tool, it first checks the "used tool life" number for that tool, and if it is 0, it automatically measures the tool before continuing with the program.
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Re: Feature Idea

Post by Clint Buechlein »

Tommy,

While this doesn't exist in an "easy button", you may be able to use the [READLIFE] AFL statement to set the life of a tool as a variable, then do an IF statement based off that variable to measure the tool if it needs to. Most softwares output the spindle on command with the tool call so the spindle will start then turn off to do the measurement. I'd likely record the spindle speed as well to turn the spindle back on again after the measurement. This is all dependent on the THM version you are running.

-Clint-
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