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I Love Guide i

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Now I know in the past I have been inclined to say some pretty rude things about Fanuc Manual guide.

Well today I’m here to make amends please Mr Fanuke, as the Americans call him, forgive me it was pure ignorance.

Right now that’s out the way. I could write a massive blog about all the shit things but no there are some great things.

I think the more you learn about something the more you seem to like it. Like all these people who slag off electric cars, funny how they have never actually bought one. I have one and I love it.

Let me make a amends today so it;s official “I Love Guide i”

Manual Guide i is great for editing, fixed forms are awesome and graphics are less crap than all the others.

I Love Guide i, Some things you might not know

You can click on a tool like in this picture T0101 then press INPUT

I Love Guide i

And it will jump to the tool file.

I Love Guide i

Now try clicking on an M code and press INPUT.

I Love Guide i

Wow an M code list comes up. I recon that’s impressive and very useful taboot.

I Love Guide i

I you have it and you don’t use it then you bloody well should. another reason is that when you click on a G code or M code down the bottom left it tell you what it is. Don’t you just love it. Oh and one more thing if you can be arsed to put all your tool descriptions in it will tell you what they are too.I Love Guide i

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Loading Tools on a Doosan DNM

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There are several ways of Loading Tools on a Doosan DNM. The first is the most simple. Don’t forget this is random tool changer so it’s no good looking in the tool drum. Read this article first if you don’t understand how a random tool changer works.

Just call out the tool you want for example T6 M6 and then load your tool. Your tool has now become T6.

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The other way of Loading Tools on a Doosan DNM is to use M45

Loading Tools on a Doosan DNM Access Tool Table

So to acces the tool table on a Doosan DNM press this button.

Doosan Tool Drum

This screen is displayed.

Loading Tools on a Doosan DNM

Press TOOL DATA button

Loading Tools on a Doosan DNM

This is your tool table that tells you where everything is in the Doosan Tool Drum.

This tells me that T20 (Too20) is in pocket 3 (P003).

Loading Tools on a Doosan DNM

Love It Or Leave It

From this screen you can decide what tools you want to keep and what tools you want to replace.

It’s a good idea to keep an actual list of what tools are in your machine.

If I wanted to use pocket three then call it in MDI tool 20 (M6 T20).

Doosan Tool Drum

Now you can load your tool, if the pocket is empty, or exchange it with this tool.

Loading Tools on a Doosan DNM

This button will release the tool if you are in a manual mode.

The tool can be heavy or stick in the spindle so be prepared for it to drop. It may be heavy so you could put a piece of wood under it to support i

From now on your tool will be tool 20 (T20).

Please don’t call it anything else because it will just ignore you.

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Doosan Access Tool Table Random Tool

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Doosan Access Tool Table. Now you probably already know that when you have a random tool changer it’s hard to know which tool is which. You look round the side at your tool drum and the numbers make no sense.

Doosan Access Tool Table

Random Tool Changer That Sounds Dodgy

No it’s not dodgy it just confuses the shit out of any one who is not used to this type of machine. I means that the tool number you are using bears no relation to the tool numbers in your tool drum.

Confused? Well you should be by now.

Doosan Access Tool Table

The machine picks up a tool and swaps it with the tool in the spindle. It then puts that tool back where it go the last one from.

Why you may be asking. Well it obviously makes the tool change faster because the drum does not need to rotate. You can preload your tools by just adding a T number anywhere before your tool change. That means you next tool is ready. All the machine needs to do is swap em. Job done.

Now for me I can’t even remember if the wife told me to get a pint of milk or a pizza on my way home from work. Therefore keeping track of these tools is absolutely impossible.

Good News Doosan Access Tool Table

You don’t need to. Our clever little machine remembers it all even when it’s turned off.

Seek And Ye Shall Find

 

All you need to do is ask for a tool and the machine will get you the correct one. Just don’t look at the drum, promise me.

Looking at the drum is like being on a 100ft cliff and looking down. Just scares the fuck out of you.

Trust the machine it knows best.

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The Catch

But then one day you want an M6 tap and you see one in the tool drum.

How do you get it?

It’s number 20 in the tool drum and only the machine knows what that is.

Ok so we need it to tell us.

Doosan Access Tool Table

So to acces the tool table on a Doosan machine we first press this button.

Doosan Access Tool Table

You will then see this screen.

Random Tool

Press TOOL DATA

Doosan Access Tool Table

So here we have it P is the pot number (the position in the drum) and T is your tool number.

So if you wanted the tool that is in pot number 3 in the tool drum you would type M6 T20.

Doosan Access Tool Table

Here is how to do it if you don’t have a Doosan Machine.

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On a sliding head machine you are running two simultaneous programs. It can be quite difficult to see where various wait codes synchronise.

First of all you need to be in the edit mode.

Cursor across until you see SYNC SCROLL

Now press it

The SINGLESCROLL button will take you back. Now as you cursor through both programs will scroll together. When you find a wait code it will turn blue. The opposite screen will keep scrolling till it finds the corresponding wait code.

Press the TOP button to return to top of program

BOTTOM will take you to the end

If you type in a wait code number for example 200

When you press M.NUM it will find it. Use the NEXSYN to jump to next wait code and use PRESYN to get to previous sync code.

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