Mach 3 Tool Change Location Help?

[Neale]

Can you explain exactly what you are trying to do? Everyone has their own way of working and I'm not quite sure what you're looking for.

For example, my tool change code moves the tool to tool change position, waits until I hit Run, then goes back to where it started and carries on. While the tool is at the tool change position, I can choose to use one of the tool-height setting options I have written or not - they are not built-in to the tool-change macros themselves. That suits the way I work, but might not be right for everyone.

[Premiumcamper]

Neale,

When I'm running our GCODE to produce one of our units it had four cuts in total. I would like it to go to a certain position WHEN a tool change it needed then I press auto tool zero it hits my wireless probe (Which will be in a fixed location) zero's its self out and then returns to the next cutting position.

Hope this makes sense to you! :D

Tim

[m_c]

Anything to do with toolchanges happens, or at least starts and ends in the M6 macros.

I'm not entirely sure, but I think once you've used M6start to move to your toolchange position, you can then use your tool zero button, then once you're finished and click cycle start again, M6end takes care of moving back to the work area.

[Neale]

Anything to do with toolchanges happens, or at least starts and ends in the M6 macros.

I'm not entirely sure, but I think once you've used M6start to move to your toolchange position, you can then use your tool zero button, then once you're finished and click cycle start again, M6end takes care of moving back to the work area.

Exactly. This is what I do on my own machine. All you need to do is put a move (in machine coordinates) to the touch plate location into the tool height set macro and the job's a good'un

[Premiumcamper]

Neale could you copy and paste what's inside your M06.M1S file please?

Regards,

Tim

[Neale]

Can do - will take a little time as I'll get the current copy off my machine. Might as well post m6start, m6end, and my tool-height setting routine while I'm at it. These all work, at least on my setup.

[Premiumcamper]

I have the auto tool zero function working.

Just struggling to set up the location, but that would all be fantastic.

Thankyou.