Tool inspection for lathe tool paths

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

Has anyone gotten tool inspection for lathe toolpaths to work with mplmaster or mplfan?

[K2csq7]

Hey Jeremy, I have it up and running with a mplmaster.

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

Would you mind sharing the logic you added?

[K2csq7]

For starters throw this at the end of the prapidout postblock

 

       	if cur_cflg$ = 70000, 
         	[
         	pbld, "M00", e$
         	pbld, "(TOOL INSPECTION POINT)", e$
         	toolno = toolno - (t$ * 100)
         	pbld, n$, sg97, *sgcode, pfxout, pfyout, pfzout, *toolno, "M00", e$
         	toolno = toolno + (t$ * 100) 
         	pbld, *toolno, e$ 
         	pcssg50          	
         	pbld, n$, "M08", e$
         	]

 

Let me know what you get/don't get. I have more in mine, but I don't think you'll want it.

[K2csq7]

Why isn't my indentation showing up correctly????

[K2csq7]

 	

  	if cur_cflg$ = 70000, 
         	[
         	pbld, "M00", e$
         	pbld, "(TOOL INSPECTION POINT)", e$
         	toolno = toolno - (t$ * 100)
         	pbld, n$, sg97, *sgcode, pfxout, pfyout, pfzout, *toolno, "M00", e$
         	toolno = toolno + (t$ * 100) 
         	pbld, *toolno, e$ 
         	pcssg50          	
         	pbld, n$, "M08", e$
         	]

 

Still not right but closer...

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

Thanks Keith. I will implement it and give it a try.

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

So I implemented this in my post but I can't get it to output x style coolant. I basically forced a tool change at the inspection point but when I force coolant on I get a M8 instead of a M478.

[K2csq7]

Josh, I have the M08 "hard coded" into the example above. If you want to force an M478, just replace the "M08" in the postings above with "M478". If that is not what you are after, you may have to leave that line out and call up the coolant the same way it is called up in the ptlchg_com postblock. I don't use xstyle coolant, so I really can't help much. The one thing I can tell you is that you will have to force the coolant code to be output somehow because it is modal and the post does not know that it got turned off during the tool inspection.

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

I have a DuraTurn and a NL2500. I have high pressure coolant on the NL so I need the M478 to turn it on when I need it and M8 when I want regular coolant. I use the same post for both machines just make some small changes for the DuraTurn. It seems xcoolant is canned text I think I need to store the value, just not up to speed on buffers yet....

[K2csq7]

You could pretty easily use a misc integer....

 

if mi4$ = 478, pbld, n$, "M478", e$

if mi4$ = 8, pbld, n$, "M8", e$