How does one use physical tool swap button on the ATC spindle? I enabled passthrough in gsender but pressing physical button currently does nothing on my end. What am I missing? if i want to load/unload tool manually without using tool racks, how do i accomplish it via the button?
Set up the tool under the ATC tab, e.g. T13 (since I have a 12 position rack) by naming it in the appropriate window. Then simply press Load, scroll to T13 then hit the Load button on that window. It will replace whichever tool is currently in the spindle and return to the preset position for manual tool changes. Then the button on the spindle will work as you expect it to. You can either Unload the tool once it’s through, or if the manual tool is called out in the file, the machine will return to the manual tool change position and let you remove it by pressing the button.
You may also need to set up the behaviors for the manual tool changes under the ATC Setup screen under Tools. I have mine set to use the TLS after each manual tool change.
Thank you for detailed explanation. I’ll try it out
This is from KGN…
i saw that. point 2 hold the load button in the atc drawer - is that the physical button on the atc spindle or load button in the atc page of gsender?
it is on gsender…I have not personally tried the second method yet.
Software button, not physical button.
Thank you. So how do I get physical button to work?
The output pin has to be enabled for the physical button to function which is done programmatically through the manual load/unload macros called by the software button so we can control the availability.
It could be enabled manually via Async IO call (eg M64 P{n} which should be 2) but it’s recommended you use the macro functionality for safety.
Perfect. Now it’s clear. Thank you