A little bit of G code help please!

[njhussey]

No if you insert it your self manually then it should still stop because Mach's STANDARD M6 macro doesn't Know or care about the tool number it just stops and waits for cycle start. Then enters the next tool number has the current tool in Mach's Tool DRO.

It doesn't do any checks to see if the current tool is same has the next tool so if you insert M6 before the next tool then even if that tool has the same number it will stop and wait. Then it enters this same number again, obviously on screen it looks like nothing changed because it's same number but it did still do the change.

Cheers Dean I'll check on Monday as I'm off oop norf to see the bin lids this weekend so no CNC, though I'll be doing the CAM for the next batch of parts for my new plane!!