mazak 1011 interference alarm

[TREV]

good day all,

I am getting 1011 interference alarm with Renishaw omp60 probe  on a vmc 530c II  mill.  this comes up if probe comes within aprox 1.125 from table. in z axis.

I have been able in past to probe the table,not sure what is causing this now. all programming is done off line so I am not using mazatrol at all. including the tool data page. I am storing all tool defs in tool offset page.  I am not sure if something got set for a work zone envelope at some point on the mazatrol side that I am overlooking. any thoughts on this.

I also have a ots tool setter. could there be a conflict that I am missing, changed batteries and cleaned all optical lenses.

 

trevor

[jlw™]

What control version?

[TREV]

matrix nexus control

 

trevor

[Manofwar]

I run a Integrex with the new Smoothx control, but I've got a similar alarm before. It had to do with the set up info. page. I had material designed in this and a mazatrol program in the main memory and was trying to run tape. It kept "running into stock" I had to blank out the set up info. fields and change the main memory program to an eia program. I'm not sure which one actually fixed the problem as I changed both at the same time.

[TREV]

manfowar

I do not have any mazatrol programs in control when this happens.  I am not a Mazak guy althou I run one every day. all programs are done with mastercam

on the eia side.  we had a customer in a while back and we were working through a project and he did some mazatrol stuff at the time. could there be something lingering on

a set up page even with all mazatrol programs deleted?  I can not seem tolocate anything.  probe is defined as tool sensor and ordinary on tool data page.

trevor

[Manofwar]

It should be 1 or 2 tabs to the left. It will say "set up info." Open this tab and make sure everything is cleared out. It holds onto this info and can use it during both EIA and Mazatrol. The purpose is to draw exactly what you're working with so the tools don't collide with stock. 

[TREV]

nothing in set up, all cleared same issue.   first guy to call back from mazak was of no help, transferred me to applications, got a voice mail.

any more insight where to look?

trevor

[Manofwar]

Two other things I can think of. In the tool page, on the probe, it could have a model of the probe drawn up for it to use for collision detection. You can either delete or modify it to work, although I've never modified one before. It would say something in the bottom left corner. The only reason I could think of for this to change is a different probe length. If you changed the probe recently this might be the problem.

 

The other thing I can think of is if the machine was setup with a 4th axis. They would have drawn and defined its position in the parameters. If you've taken out or moved the 4th recently this could also be a problem. I'm not exactly sure how to change those settings, but it should be easy enough to look up in the book.

 

There is a way to bypass the problem if you can't find a fix and need to do something now. It will most likely be on the main page or tabbing right. The button is called "Safety Shield" you can turn these off and it won't check for collisions. (Upon looking at these you can actually turn collision checking settings off individually. You can narrow down what is causing you problems by shutting one off at a time and seeing where it's getting hung up.)

[TREV]

If I turn off tool interference check the probe will go down to table. what is really f'ed up is I can take a tool that is shorter than the probe and it will go down to the table

with all the interference checks turned on. this is only occurring with the probe. I did speak with Mazak ,they were going to look deeper into it and get back to me

trevor