Setting up a tool
This chapter uses an example to show how to set up a tool.
To set up a tool, the following steps are necessary:
- Preparing the tools
- Opening the Tool management application and the Form workspace
- Inserting a tool in the tool management
- Defining the tool
- Entering the tool in the pocket table
You have to set up the tools to enable the control to position, simulate and compensate for the tools, for example.
Example tool
Tool | Parameter | Value |
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Name | MILL_D12 | |
L | +120 | |
R | +6 | |
R2 | +0 | |
TYP | Roughing mill (MILL_R) | |
LCUTS | +20 | |
LU | 28 | |
RN | 4.8 | |
R-TIP | 0 | |
T-ANGLE | +0 | |
CUTS | 4 |
Preparing the tools
To prepare tools:
- Clamp the required tools in the tool holder
- Measure the tools (e.g., with a presetter)
- Write down the parameters
- Now the tool is ready.
- You can measure tools with the tool touch probe of the control.
- Alternatively, the control makes it possible to measure the tool without a tool touch probe.
- You cannot and do not have to measure all parameters. Some values can be found in the tool catalog for example.
Opening the Tool management application and the Form workspace
- The Tool management application with the Table and Form workspaces
You enter tools in the Tool management application of the Tables operating mode. You define tool parameters in the Form workspace. In the Form workspace, the control shows the required parameters of the selected tool.
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More detailed information
- Tables operating mode
- The Form workspace
- Tool parameters
- Tool management
Inserting a tool in the tool management
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- Tool types
Defining the tool
To define the tool with the measured parameters:
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Based on the entered parameters, the control shows the tool correctly in the Simulation workspace.
To use the full performance range, you have to define further parameters, such as KINEMATIC (tool-carrier kinematics for collision monitoring). You need different parameters depending on the tool type.
Entering the tool in the pocket table
Refer to your machine manual!
Access to the tool_p.tch pocket table is machine-dependent.
- Pocket table application with opened Table workspace
The tool_p.tch pocket table provides the pocket assignment of the tool magazine. You must add the tool to the pocket table in order for the control to be able to insert the tool. The tool must be stored in the machine.
To enter a tool in the pocket table:
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More detailed information
- Pocket table