Tool Registration - Mitsubishi Electric E70 Series Instruction Manual

3.4 Tool Registration

A tool No. is assigned to each tool to make the tools installed on the machine recognizable to the NC. The tool No. is
registered corresponding to the magazine pot and spindle where that tool is installed, and the standby location.
When the tool No. and magazine pot are changed by a tool selection command or tool replacement command, the new
tool No. is displayed
When not making an arbitrary setting for the number of registered tools, there are maximum 3 magazines, and up to 120
tools can be registered for each magazines. When making an arbitrary setting, there are a maximum of 5 magazines,
and up to 360 tools can be registered for all magazines.
This function differs depending on the specifications of the machine tool builder. Refer to the instruction manual issued
by the machine tool builder for details.
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Inputting an address key, such as MST, displays manual numerical value command window where manual numerical
value command is executed.
Display items
Display item
(1) Magazine
(2) Tool No.-D
Spindle/Wait
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(used by PLC program)
(4) PLC command
This displays the currently selected magazine No.
A maximum of 8 digits of data can be input for a tool No.
(Refer to the instruction manual issued by the machine tool builder for D functions and
purposes.)
When the "Tool No." column is blank, confirm the tool first, since the tool could not be
mounted, or the tool could not match the spindle.
Setting "0" erases the registered tool.
This displays the magazine 1 spindle or standby tool No.
(The name of this area differs depending on the output from the PLC program.)
The spindle/standby display for each magazine complies with the setting value of the
parameter "#11054 Sp-stby disp type".
(Note) Displayed contents depend on the ATC parameter setting.
This command is used to input data and perform sequence processing using the PLC
program.
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3.4 Tool Registration
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