Dressing tool table tooldress.drs (#156 / #4-04-1)

Application

The dressing tool table tooldress.drs contains the parameters specific to dressing tools.

Requirements

  • Grinding (#156 / #4-04-1) software option
  • Dressing tool is defined in the TYP column of tool management
  • Tool types

Description of function

The file name of the dressing tool table is tooldress.drs and this table must be stored in the folder TNC:\table.

You define the parameters depending on the following dressing tool types:

Stationary dresser with radius
Rotating dresser with radius
Stationary dresser (flat)
Rotating dresser (flat)

Parameters of the dressing tool table tooldress.drs

The tooldress.drs dressing tool table provides the following parameters:

Parameter

Meaning

T

Row number in the dressing tool table

The tool number allows you to identify each tool unambiguously (e.g., for calling a tool).

Using TOOL CALL to call a tool

You can define an index after the period.

Indexed tool

The row number must match the tool number in the tool.t tool table.

Input: 0.0...32767.9

NAME

Name of dressing tool

The tool name identifies a tool, for example when calling it.

Using TOOL CALL to call a tool

You can define an index after a period (i.e., name.index).

Indexed tool

Input: Text width 32

ZL

Tool length 1

Length of the tool in the Z direction, with respect to the tool carrier preset

Tool carrier reference point

Input: –99999.9999...+99999.9999

XL

Tool length 2

Length of the tool in the X direction, with respect to the tool carrier preset

Tool carrier reference point

Input: –99999.9999...+99999.9999

YL

Tool length 3

Length of the tool in the Y direction, with respect to the tool carrier preset

Tool carrier reference point

Input: –99999.9999...+99999.9999

DZL

Tool length oversize 1

Delta value of tool length 1 for tool compensation

Is added to the parameter ZL

Input: –99999.9999...+99999.9999

DXL

Tool length oversize 2

Delta value of tool length 2 for tool compensation

Is added to the parameter XL

Input: –99999.9999...+99999.9999

DYL

Tool length oversize 3

Delta value of tool length 3 for tool compensation

Is added to the parameter YL

Input: –99999.9999...+99999.9999

RS

Tool tip radius

Input: 0.0000...99999.9999

DRS

Cutter radius oversize

Delta value of the cutter radius for tool compensation

Is added to the parameter RS

Input: –999.9999...+999.9999

TO

Tool orientation

The control uses the tool orientation to determine the position of the tool's cutting edge.

Input: 1...9

CUTWIDTH

Width of tool (plate, roll)

Tool width of the tool types dressing plate and dressing roll

Input: 0.0000...99999.9999

TYPE

Type of dressing tool

Depending on the selected dressing tool type, the control displays the suitable parameters in the Form workspace of the tool management.

Dressing tool types (#156 / #4-04-1)

Tool management

Selection by means of a selection window

Input: DRESS_FIX_RADIUS, HORNED, DRESS_ROT_RADIUS, DRESS_FIX_FLAT and DRESS_ROT_FLAT

N-DRESS

Speed of the tool (dressing spindle)

Shaft speed of a dressing spindle or dressing roll

Input: 0.0000...99999.9999

Notes

  • The dressing tool will not be mounted to the spindle. You need to mount the dressing tool manually to a pocket defined by the machine manufacturer. Additionally, you must define the tool in the pocket table.
  • When you are dressing a tool, the control hides the tool carrier in the Simulation workspace.
  • The Simulation workspace

  • Geometry values from the tool table tool.t, such as length or radius, are not effective with dressing tools.
  • Assign unique tool names!
  • If you define identical tool names for multiple tools, the control will look for the tool in the following sequence:

    • Tool that is in the spindle
    • Tool that is in the magazine
    •  
      Machine

      Refer to your machine manual.

      If there are multiple magazines, the machine manufacturer can specify the search sequence of the tools in the magazines.

    • Tool that is defined in the tool table but is currently not in the magazine
  • If the control, for example, finds multiple available tools in the tool magazine, it inserts the tool with the least remaining tool life.

  • If you want to archive tool tables, save them with different file names and the corresponding file extension.
  • Use the machine parameter unitOfMeasure (no. 101101) to define inches as the unit of measure. This does not automatically change the unit of measure in the tool table!
  • Creating a tool table in inches