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Murry,

Thank you for the macros and the explanation as well. It's the folks like you that make this community so nice. I've downloaded them and they will serve as nice guides to create my own for my mill build. Thanks again!

I'm pleased to report that simply changing Input 1 to SpindleLowRange (from Backgear) did the trick. You hit the nail on the head there!

Now when I ask for a low speed (my threshold is <1000rpm), it selects low ratio and then displays the correct spindle speed in the CNC12 screen. The VFD is ...

Oh man, thank you so much for doing that!

Update:
Success! Thank you for the help on this one. My axis based ATC is up and running. I took your advice Ken and embedded the tool locations as subprograms within the mfunc6. Works like a charm. I have to say I am very pleased with the speed of the tool change. With the Acornsix, I still have 2 ...

I would suggest doing a custom m6 tool change macro that has variables in the same folder. All tool locations are in the variables of the one file, and when you ask for a certain tool, it goes to the variable location of that tool. I put one of my m6 macro's up just to show what I mean. You can ...

Ok, I got the carousel moving. Thank you for the help on that. The issue was that I only had a single coil solenoid connected to the in/out cylinder. I put a 2-coil solenoid on and added another input (ATCcarouselin & ATCcarouselout instead of just toggling the ATCcarouselin on and off to move it ...

Hi Kieth, yes, I’m sorry I wasn’t able to get any pictures or videos posted yet, I’m working on that actually. The Google photo album is a good idea and I’ll get that going somehow but I’m an iPhone user and learning Google photos doesn’t play very nice with Apple. The only way it will allow me to ...

Found this thread (linked below) and I think this is my problem with the carousel going right back out as soon as it comes in. I have a single coil solenoid valve that drives my air cylinder and only have “CarouselIn” defined in outputs. When the output toggles, the carousel goes in and out. The ...

Hello everyone. I hope I haven't created an insurmountable challenge for myself. You see, I have built an axis motor based ATC carousel (closed loop stepper on a worm drive gear box), and I'm trying to get it working for a MILL on Acornsix.

I like the idea of a fast tool retrieval an axis motor ...

It's working! The carousel came in on its own! Very strange, I was going through the Alt-i menu and noticed that memory bit 75 (CarouselOutState_M) wasn't responding like it had been. I found somehow input 5 had gotten set to ATC_ToolCounter instead of ATCCarouselIsOut. Fixed that and also realized ...