Hi, I'm Daniel Rogge. Today we're going to talk about loading tools and removing...
tools using your Tormach ATC.
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So here I've got PathPilot screens open here, and I've...
tabbed over to the ATC screen, and for the purposes of this video I'm going to
assume you've already gone through the mechanical installation of the ATC and
the alignment of the ATC and we're just going to talk about using Tormach
tooling with that ATC to deal with tool changing.
So first off, we see an image of...
the tray here. These are the different pockets that are available. There are 10
the 770 here that we're looking at. There are actually two ways to load tools into
the tray we'll talk about both of them today. There's a manual way. It's a little
faster, but a little bit more laborious and then there's an automatic way so
we'll go over the automatic way first. I've got a tool here.
We'll call it tool one.
So, I'm going to do is just put it in the spindle.
And anytime you put a tool in the spindle,
the machine you want to let it know that it's in the spindle. So here I
am in the tool DRO. I'm going to type tool 1 and hit enter.
And then I'm just going to go, Store Current Tool.
I can use that method to load the rest of the tools...
...that I'm going to use for this job into the trays. So here's a tool four I'll call it.
Go ahead and put it in the spindle.
Make sure that the system knows it's tool four, and then store current tool.
So now you can see we've got tools 1 and 4 in the ATC. Tools 1 and 4 they're in the machine.
And you can use any tool you want into any pocket so the system does
not think of pockets 1 through 10 it's really just tools if there's an open
spot it'll put it away so we could call this tool 200 if we want
and we could go ahead and store tool 200.
so we've got tools 1, 4, and 200 loaded in here now. If I ran a g-code program that
called up a tool change for tool 1 it would fetch the tool automatically. If I
want to fetch the tool manually, I could go down here and just type 201 M6 G43.
It knows that it's in the ATC so it asks me, do I want to use the ATC to fetch the tool?
So, we've got tools 1, 4, and 200 in here, and maybe we're done
with the job, maybe we want to remove them, it's easy enough we can go ahead
and type the tool number in here. Click remove.
Go ahead and grab the tool. And it just wants me to remove it from the spindle here and then that tool is
not a sign to the ATC anymore. Another way that we could remove tools too.
If we wanted to, we could go ahead and grab the tool this way. Say, tool four.
Do we want to use it to fetch? Sure. Is the spindle open? Yes. It's empty.
So here we are. We'll grab tool four.
And I could just go ahead and say, "we're going to remove this tool."
And type tool 0 in there. I'll go ahead and remove it first. I chose the R means
Type tool 0 means empty spindle. I could click M6 G43. Say ATC restore tool? No, I don't.
I'm not putting it back in there.
I can have tool four already out. I could go up here type in four.
And click remove and that'll take tool for out of the out of the tray assignment.
So let's go ahead and the last thing we'll do is remove tool 200.
I can either to type 200 up here and then click remove. If I wanted to I can
actually click tray forward and that'll bring whatever's at that 3 o'clock
position. the spindle position. That will pre-populate this
DRO with that number. Makes it a little bit easier.
So here I am, I'm just going to go ahead and remove the tool.
So that's kind of the automatic way to add tools to the ATC.
Really all you have to do is put the tool in the spindle, type the tool number in
the tool DRO and hit, "store current tool", and that will put that tool away in any
open spot in the carousel. Likewise, to remove it you just type the tool number
in here that you want to remove, click the "remove button", and it will remove the tool.
But I did mention earlier that there's a slightly faster manual way to do this.
So I'm going to walk you through that now. That's over on this side.
This is kind of the manual insert side. I'm going to click "go to try load position"
And I'll grab a couple tools here.
Kind of goes without saying,you don't want to
go ahead and grab the sharp end mill so typically when I'm doing this and I'm
making sure my fingers are nowhere near it I will go ahead and put it in there
and just slide it on in. So then over here I will just type in the tool number.
Let's say this is tool 2 and hit enter a couple of times. And now tools in that
spot, tool 2 is in that spot. I tray forward then I can do my next tool.
We'll call it tool 3. And tray forward.
Tool four. So you can see, this is a slightly faster way, but a little bit more manual
way of loading tools up into the tray. Otherwise, once you've got them in, once
they're assigned like this, an M6 command from a g-code program or the M6 button
down here, will fetch any one of those tools so if I want tool three.
I have tool three, hit enter. Use the ATC to fetch the tool. Yes and it let's go grab that tool.
Just as we were able to insert these tools in that manual method with
the go-to tray load position button we can use that same method to delete tools
from the tray. So I'll select, "go to tray load position".
And what I can do now is I
just pull these tools out one by one.
And then I can go ahead and delete all of them. So that's two ways of loading tools
up into your Tormach automatic tool changer one using the tool DRO and the
M6 G43 button and the store current tool and remove buttons.
The other way go into tray load position and then manually putting the tools into the
forks and using the "insert DRO" the "insert" button or the "delete" and "delete
all" buttons to remove tools. For more metalworking tips and tricks check out
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