Mazatrol "store workpiece material"

[K2csq7]

Good morning all, looking for some help on this feature.

I was 1/2 way through a program on an integrex friday when I shut the machine down, now the machine thinks I am starting with a fresh part in it. (doesn't know what operations have been completed..... With our "Intelligent" Safety Shield doing it's job, I am gettings interference alarms (it doesn't know the part has been roughed out...)

I could just shut the shield off, but I am looking for the proper way to handle this.

 

Thanks for any ideas!

[crazy^millman]

You cannot do a restart from the block you are? I thought it would read all the previous information and go from that? I never used the Safety Shield it wa always no guts no glory where I have worked in the past.

[K2csq7]

I cannont get it to acknowledge the previous operations have been completed...

I can run without the safety shield, but it's kinda my job to know how to do it the "proper" way.... LOL

Thanks Ron, hope the recovery continues to go well!

[RayD]

Just spitballing here

 

Move the offset out, run the previous paths in the air, move offset back the continue on?

[K2csq7]

Yes Ray, that will work....

I can do a restart in virtual machine... (start at a random place in the program and have the control read all previous operatioins), it even updates the graphics in the virtual....

Having a tough time believing it is not possible to restart a mazatrol program in the middle without shutting off the safety shield.....

I have asked some co-workers and they don't think it can be done...

[MLS]

Never heard of this, just was reading about it... the things you miss out on without an integrex...

 

Can you switch from virtual to actual through a macro? ... or is it a totally different interface?

 

Wondering if you could virtually simulate to a certain block number, turn it back on then continue to trick the machine.