Hi
I have Mori Seiki TV30 and I have tool changer working curently at very crude method and I would like to make it properly. I have been trying to google similar setups everywhere, but could find none and closest one was brother TC-225, though it uses grayscale encoder to know which tool is in.
Toolchange works as follows:
1. Spindle orients (works currently)
2. Z axis moves fully up and tool gets removed in same step mechanically (I have overtravel here setup for tool change which also works)
3. Carousel rotates the tool in (10 slot carousel and this step has some issues)
4. Z axis moves down and takes tool in mechanically (Naturally this step works too)
so the problem is with homing procedure as I do it in my custom comp with very crude method of stepping motor forward by stepping it with poscmd (it is mitsubishi meldas using fantastic controller from
yurtaev.com/
) however this is not very accurate method and other solution would be using it as axis, but when I set it axis I can't find a way to home it during first toolchange (it should drive Z axis up in overtravel location during this step before trying to home the carousel). So what I am trying to probably ask is that is it possible force homing from toolchange.ngc routine for the ATC axis if I set it up that way? or how I could home the axis using some other method as I can use only position mode for it?
Oh and sorry if my explanation is not clear enough, I will try explain it better if required image missing /media/kunena/emoticons/laughing.png
