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Greetings again, I just posted a new video explaining the Magazine component of the Automatic Tool Change System. Mechanical, electrical, Wizard settings, and Macro programs are explained. Take a look if you are curious about how this ATC works. https://youtu.be/jn7q5AzYjgo The next video, which I h...

Nice work! Can you do a walk around showing the machine running, the operator console showing Centroid CNC12 running and your control cabinet in a video? Marty Hi Marty, Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated! Here are the videos I am hoping to do in the coming months (I work full time so time...

LinkCNC, do you have a tool changer? If not, why are you using the M6 command? Where is your "offset" being stored? Is this is the part WCS offsets or in the Tool offsets? What is the value of the active WCS offset and what is the value of the tool length offset #1? Do you have a G54 or ot...

Here is another video showing the machine running a part passing 10 tools through the tool changer.

https://youtu.be/NdT5LD6asIc


Chris D

I've always wondered if something like that could be done, and turns out it can! What's that gearbox that actually unscrews the collet nut? And do you have some kind of detection to know how tight/loose it is? Hi Toaster, Funny how wonder leads to invention sometimes :-) As it gets a bit complicate...

Thanks Marty, In truth, I wasn't sure the concept would work but ran with it. When it failed on MACH 3 (due to problems with its Macro language), I was ready to give up. After looking over Acorn's features, I wasn't too sure it had enough capability to do it either but decided to try it. Thus far am...

Greetings all, I am very near the end of the re-control I did on my router. The reason I decided to do the re-control with ACORN is because MACH 3 failed my big time while implementing a DIY tool change system. This is a very unique (I don't recall seeing anything like it) tool change system and may...

Thanks CNCSNW, I used that technique. The wording "ACTIVE" threw me off in the System Variable description, however, it does do what I wanted!

Thanks!

Chris D

Awesome! Thank you Scott!

Greeting all, I am sure this is simple, I just can't find the system variable or parameter to write the data to. Within a macro, I want to write a value to the Z register of G54. I am using a G10 H--- R---- to write to tool length offset registers, but can't figure out how to write to the work offse...