The Toyoda FA800 horizontal with a Fanuc 16i control at MPM has a tool changer that uses assigned pockets. Immediately after a tool change the programmer tells the control what the next tool will be using a T number. The carousel positions the next tool number to be picked up by the tool change arm. After the tool change the swing arm holds the changed tool until the carousel positions the correct pot for the held tool. The tool change arm then places the tool into the pot and the next tool to be used is then picked up when it is in position.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019, 4:27 AM andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 05:07, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users > <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > I've seen some that have each tool holder coded and read the holders in > the chain or carousel as it moves. > > In fact the machine in the first post is just such a machine. The tool > holders all have a mechanical bar-code made of a stack of rings of > different diameters on the outside of the tool holder body. > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
