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Mazak Variable for Tool in Spindle


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Good Morning All,

I work at a job shop where we use Mazatrol for all 2.5 axis work on our vertical mills and then sub out to .EIA for any 3D milling or Dynamic Toolpaths. The issue I run into is specifying a tool number in a Mastercam program and making that jive with the tool numbers at each machine. Generally, I either have to wait for the tooling to be loaded into the machine for the actual tool number or force the guys at the machine to change their tool layouts to match the program. Ideally, I would like to have a Mazatrol Manual call for a tool and then run the sub from there. A variable that could read what the actual tool number in the spindle is could then be output with every T, H and D in place of the tool number used in Mastercam. Is there a preset Variable on a Mazak that would return this? I think setting it up in the post would be easy enough?

Thanks in advance.

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