HAAS VF-3 programmable coolant

[Bryan Johnson]

now if only the macro option was turned on.

 

Thanks for sharing.

[kenfromlodi]

It is turned on!! we are not total morons you know!!

 

[ 10-18-2007, 09:18 AM: Message edited by: kenfromlodi ]

[htm01]

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It is turned on!! were not total morons you know!!

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i think he means his machines!

[kenfromlodi]

sorry I misunderstood

[iowajim62]

ken,

you need to unlock the contol, go to settings/graph and type in 23 or page down until you find 9XXX Progs Edit Lock. You need this turned off to edit 9000 series programs.

[kenfromlodi]

I unlocked setting 23 and still cant see the 9000 programs. I believe the only programs you will see there would be programs put there by the user or extras from the factory. I dont think that the factory macros that run the machine functions are viewable from there.

Am I wrong or should I be able to see them?

[htm01]

on ours its all the probe progs that are 9xxx

[pete mcadams]

I tried the macro on my old VF4 and it sets the programable coolant to 1 on every tool. I don't have tool probing or use a tool setter I set the tools to a gage block off my top face. I also don't know anything about macros. Any thoughts on what I can do to get this going.

Thanks

[iowajim62]

Ken,

all of our Haas have spindle probes and tool break probes so the macros are there,maybe you need to load them back up. We have some "brilliant" setup guys who have deleted all the macros before, mayhaps you have the same situation where the macros were deleted.

 

pete,

your older control may be using different variables than the newer contols?????

[htm01]

i don't think you can get to the M6,imagine if anyone could change it how effd up it would get.

[kenfromlodi]

htm01,

I agree that they are not there because they could get changed or deleted. we also have had people delete all the 9000 programs from older machines.

 

Jim,

we dont have probing on our haas mills but i have seen the probe macros in on the control before.

Even tho there are no programs in the 9000 directory I know our haas mills have custom macro ability because I ran a simple macro in MDI and it worked with no alarms and there is a custom macro variable page.

 

 

Theres no doubt that there is an M6 macro installed in the control, its just a matter of being able to get to it.

[MattW]

- Thread hijack-

 

Ken

 

On a hunch, I looked up Oviso Manufacturing. I interviewed there for an engineering position in 2002 when it was Isys. I could have interviewed with you for all I know.

 

- thread unhijack-

[kenfromlodi]

No it wasnt me in 2002 but we could sure use some good help over now!! totally swamped!!

[Bryan Johnson]

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I set the tools to a gage block off my top face. I also don't know anything about macros. Any thoughts on what I can do to get this going.

Thanks

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My understanding is that this will not work unless you always set you tools to a common referance point. (like off the table or a pre-setter). Also, the values in the example macro will need to be edited for different size machines.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yes, I was complining about not having the macro option on my machines. I also wanted to thank Surface for sharing a nice utility.