The programming command T = identifier initiates the tool change. T = location can be
programmed as an alternative. If T = location, no tool need actually be stored in the location.
Description of the buffers and loading points:
Magazine Location Meaning
1 xx Real magazine 1 (circular), position xx
9998 1 Tool holder
9999 1 Loading point for tool holder, manual tool
If the value 1 is also set for the turret in MD22550: $MC_TOOL_CHANGE_MODE, the
statement made for the chain magazines also applies here.
Consider adjacent location
Consider adjacent location is used for oversized tools. When searching for empty locations
(loading, tool change) the
bits 4 ... 11 are then evaluated in the magazine location parameter
$TC_MPP4 (half location occupied/reserved).
9.1.4 Multitool
Multitool in the turning technology
A multitool is a mini turret with a number of tools that is loaded to a magazine and unloaded
from a magazine as one tool in the turning technology. The T selection in the part program
also detects and checks the tools of a multitool when searching for a tool.
Brief description:
● Using a multitool you have the possibility of storing more than one tool at a magazine
location.
● A multitool has a defined number of locations to accept tools.
● Regarding loading and unloading in a magazine, the multitool is treated as one tool.
● The multitool is considered to be an entity in its own right that is manually equipped, and
which is loaded, unloaded or transported as a whole. The equipping of a multitool with tools
or the removal of tools from the multitool do not create a tool management request to the
PLC interface.
● The multitool knows the parameters "Number of locations" and "Type of clearance
determination of the locations".
● The type of clearance for the multitool can be defined via the location number or via the
angle of the location.
● Multitool names come from the same name space as the tool names and magazine names.
● Different multitools must have different names, i.e. a duplo number is not defined.
Tool management
9.1 Fundamentals
CNC commissioning
256 Commissioning Manual, 10/2015, 6FC5397-3DP40-5BA3
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