Fanuc Robodrill

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Higuys

I'm new to the fanuc controller, but have 15-20 years of experience with Siemens and Heidenhain.

My workplace bought a brand new Robodrill with 21 tool holders.

On both Heidenhain and Siemens you can have e.g. T50 in holder nr.1. and you just call T50, but on the Fanuc I can only have T1 in holder nr.1 etc.

Is there any way to get about this, because we have a rather comprehensive tool library already setup in MasterCam and we are used to identify our tools by their respective number?

On Heidenhain/Siemens you save the length etc. with the tool number.

On Fanuc you save it under a H-number.

Do you save the tools used, along with a tool offset list with every program, like a project? If so, how is this done?

The defaults for having Tool # = Pot # on the machine, can often be "customized" by the Machine Tool Builder, but it will cost you some money. Typically the "M06" tool change G-code calls an internal Macro Program, and that program can be customized. The same goes for the Tool Registers.

Yes that is properly the way i am going to do it. The problem here as I see it, is that you have to manually edit the program to put in the D and H numbers for each tool. I cannot see there is any possible way of making a post capable of doing that for you = Chance of human error....

I was just pointing out some of the Parameters on the Fanuc 31i B control, that allow you to tweak the "T" code settings. I can't give you an example of changing the settings, because this is always dependent on the Machine Tool Builder. As Newbeee mentioned, you'll need to get Robodrill to make the modifications, and they may just say "No", depending on how they've built the PLC ladder and configured the HMI.

Yes that is properly the way i am going to do it. The problem here as I see it, is that you have to manually edit the program to put in the D and H numbers for each tool. I cannot see there is any possible way of making a post capable of doing that for you = Chance of human error....

I'm new to the fanuc controller, but have 15-20 years of experience with Siemens and Heidenhain.

My workplace bought a brand new Robodrill with 21 tool holders.

On both Heidenhain and Siemens you can have e.g. T50 in holder nr.1. and you just call T50, but on the Fanuc I can only have T1 in holder nr.1 etc.

Is there any way to get about this, because we have a rather comprehensive tool library already setup in MasterCam and we are used to identify our tools by their respective number?

I had a similar situation recently and copied the existing library, renumbered the tools and then made a cheat sheet showing showing the new tool numbers next to the old numbers. Changing the tool numbers on the Robodrill if even possible, would be confusing to the operator because the numbers are on the magazine right above the spindle. The machine uses a 30 taper spindle so its not going to be sharing the actual tools with other machines any way.

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