I have an odd thing going on today. I built the cabinets with 5mm (.1969) pin holes. When we nest the parts, it says "error: .1968 tool is not set up in tooling" even though I think it wants .1969, which is what I ahve in the machine. SO, thinking I have doen soemthing, I go to Tool Manager, set up my drill as .1968 instead fo .1969 and this shoudl resolve this. Wrong! Program still wants a different tool and doesn't knwo my drill is there.
So what am I missing?? I really don't want to tdrill all these by hand but if I have to make them without pin holes, I can. Everythign else is fine.
Running CN 5.41
eCabs 5.2 Bld 1
Thanks in advance
Rob
Shelf Pin Holes
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Re: Shelf Pin Holes
Also, when I nest it in eCabs, and look at the detail part on a sheet, the pin holes are identified as .1968, even though I built the cabient as .1969. I also have gone back and loaded a job we ran succesfully, and holes are .1968 in eCabs but the part runs on the machine. I am really stumped!
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Todd Miller
Re: Shelf Pin Holes
Rob,
In ecabs if your holes are .1968 (5mm), Then on the machine you will need to have the Diameter of the tool set to .1968 in the tool manager. Then in Control nesting under "tooling", you will need to make sure the operation for the .1968 tool is set to "drill".
If you would like to attach the "export" file from control nesting along with the ecabinets file, I will be happy to take a look at it for you.
In ecabs if your holes are .1968 (5mm), Then on the machine you will need to have the Diameter of the tool set to .1968 in the tool manager. Then in Control nesting under "tooling", you will need to make sure the operation for the .1968 tool is set to "drill".
If you would like to attach the "export" file from control nesting along with the ecabinets file, I will be happy to take a look at it for you.
Re: Shelf Pin Holes
Well, the saga continues. We are back running again becasue we got another message as we tried to fix the first rpoblem. The issue apparently is that we had a corrupt tool table for tool #4. Luckily, (unluckily) we had this problem with tool table a year ago and we still had the procedure we used to copy the tool table from a saved copy.
Now, I don't know why we keep losing our tool table every year. It is a royal pain!!!!!
Any ideas on why we are corrupting the tool table?
Now, I don't know why we keep losing our tool table every year. It is a royal pain!!!!!
Any ideas on why we are corrupting the tool table?
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Todd Miller
Re: Shelf Pin Holes
Reasons the tool table is becoming corrupt.....
Not shutting the control down properly.
Not hitting "enter" when a change is made.
Putting in two decimals in a number.
Lots of little things can cause it, but the best thing to do is have a back up saved that you can replace the corrupt one with.
Not shutting the control down properly.
Not hitting "enter" when a change is made.
Putting in two decimals in a number.
Lots of little things can cause it, but the best thing to do is have a back up saved that you can replace the corrupt one with.
Re: Shelf Pin Holes
Thanks Todd. I'll instruct the operators to watch for these things.
Can you define "Not shutting the control down properly"?
Can you define "Not shutting the control down properly"?
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Todd Miller
Re: Shelf Pin Holes
Rob,
Not Shutting the control down properly would consist of just going over to the power switch and turning the cabinet off without shutting down windows first. So you should shut down windows then wait for the screen to tell you "It is ok to shut down the control"
Not Shutting the control down properly would consist of just going over to the power switch and turning the cabinet off without shutting down windows first. So you should shut down windows then wait for the screen to tell you "It is ok to shut down the control"