Hi, I'm Jason a Machinist with Tormach. Today we're going to go over our SmartCool product.
It's a programmable coolant system that works with PathPilot.
It offers three primary modes of operation which include,
a tooltip mode, so coolant will track the tip of the tool,
a part zero mode which will track the zero on your workpiece,
and then we also have an oscillation mode, or wiggle mode, that will wiggle up and down by a set value.
It can also be adapted to work with all of our coolant options so it works
with flood coolant, a mist coolant and also an air-blast.
It can also be expanded with a multi-coolant module to...
...allow you to run both flood coolant, and the mister or an air blast at the same time.
Let's jump on the machine and we'll go over the different modes and show you how to use them all.
The default mode is going to be Z-zero mode so it's
going to track the zero position of your workpiece. We do give you the ability to...
adjust the z-position so if you set your work zero is at the bottom apart and you...
...wanna program it for a 2 inch thick part you can put it up an e value you to set the..
...zero position at positive 2 inches you can set in either positive or negative
value so doesn't really matter where you set your zeros you can program around it with coolant.
So by default we're gonna run...I'll show you M7's here so if we just do a...
...standard m7 what you're going to see is that the smart cool units going to track....
...the zero position of the machine so as we jog you're going to see it change...
...position and follow the origin of the part around.
If we want to adjust that value we can type in an M7...
with an e-value. So we can go M7 E2 and what we'll see is...
...the SmartCool units going to move up and it's going to assume that the zero
position's two inches above.
So to demonstrate this footage I'll jog the machine down I'm just going to...
...set my zero position here so let's hit Z zero, you can see that the SmartCool...
...unit is aimed at the zero position of the part and as we jog up in Z you'll see it...
...tracks that position.
It works with both so you can see with the multi-coolant module...
...that PathPilot is automatically compensating for the air blast vs the flood coolant.
The primary coolant system is going to be on the bottom so when we
...type in M7 what it's is really saying is use this top slot. So if we install an..
air-blast here or if we saw install Fog Buster unit...
It's gonna use this top slot for the aiming of the unit itself.
The second mode of operation we can do is tool tip mode.
So this is controlled with a p-value and what its gonna do...
is it's going to track the tip of the tool. So it's going to use your tool length...
...offset right inside of PathPilot so we'll type m7 p0
And you can see that the SmartCool is now pointed at the tip of the tool.
We can adjust this as well, we can say M7 P1...
and you can see that it aims the coolant a little bit higher.
So we can adjust the heights up and down as you need.
You can also adjust all the stuff on the fly.
If you're in the middle program and you want to make a change you can also use...
...the shortcut keys of Alt D and Alt U you can see that D lowers SmartCool...
unit and U is going to raise it up and that will stay effective until you
recall an m7 or an M8 or turn it off.
And the third mode of operation is going to be the oscillation or wiggle mode.
and this is controlled an R value. So if we...
... show again we can say M7 R2 it's going to stay at a 2-inch oscillation.
We can enter and you can see that, pointed at Z zero and oscillates at the tip of the 2 inch...
...fan so we can kind of combine these all in different units to if we want to run
you know, the air blast at the tip of the tools we say I'm M7 P0 and we want to add...
...an oscillation we can add an R value to that we could say R2. You can see now...
...it's going to point at the tip of the tool and fan or oscillate...
So we can kind of mix and match these all togther
And the final option we have for using the SmartCool is an...
...air blast mode or a Q value. This works really nice with the flood coolant option.
You can just add an auxiliary air blast that clears some chips or clean the part off.
So for this we'll shut the wiggle off, which is just a standard M9.
I'm going to turn on the flood coolant so I'm going to close the doors.
So I'm just going to do an M8 with a P0.
This is going to point the coolant at the tip of the tool and I'm going to say a...
...Q of 2. So every two seconds it's going to blast the air.
Turn this on. See the coolants on the end.
And every couple of seconds we should hear an air blast.
So this product does work with all of our PCNC mills.
This has been our SmartCool overview video.
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