Disabling a Tool Home or Tool Out Sensor

How to temporarily disable a tool out or tool home sensor in the winMulti control software

Difficulté

Easy Facile

Durée

5 minute(s) minute(s)

Spindle, Plunge, Sensor TM018B_Microline_and_ZX3_V_Notch_Blade_Setup_ZX3_Ring.jpg

Introduction

If there is a failure of a tool out or tool home sensor on the Stuga spindle ring, it is important to be able to quickly disable the input so the machine can continue production until the problem can be properly resolved. The software has an inbuilt functionality to do this - this tutorial takes you through the necessary steps

Étape 1 - Exit winMulti

A change has to be made to one of the setup files, so you need to exit to the desktop

Étape 2 - Open tools.mul

Navigate to the directory containing tools.mul.

Depending on the machine type, this could be c:\multi, c:\ddrive or d:\

Étape 3 - Disable the tool reference

...The ioReferences for the spindle home / out inputs are different for various machine types. This is a historical anomaly left over from when the control programs were merged

See Dictionary for more detail on IO inputs

For Autoflows:

The ioRefs are in the range 67-86 and begin InB_Spin....

For ZX and Flowline:

The ioRefs are in the range 405-422 and begin SP or DP

To disable the input, change the IOReference code to -1

The spindle software automatically uses a timer instead of the input to control the spindle

Function            Timer
Plunge Out          Parameter 'toolplunge'
Plunge Home         Fixed 10ms
Double Plunge Out   Fixed 0.75s
Double Plunge Home  Fixed 0.75s

Étape 4 - Save tools.mul

Étape 5 - Restart winMulti

Étape 6 - Disable the Alarm

Depending on the setup of the individual machine, there will probably be an alarm set up to detect if the sensor is active at the correct stroke of the cylinder.

This is easily disabled through the Settings->Alarms screen by unticking the "Enabled" box

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