Manual Guide i Access Tools

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Ever been writing a program in Manual Guide i and wanted to look into the tool offsets?

Well obviously you can but it is a pain in the arse to switch from one screen to another.

Anyway help is at hand I’m going to show you a quick parameter change that will allow you to acces the tool offsets quickly.

If you want to know right now, skip to the end of this article, cos I’m going to rant a bit.

I recently got allowed into Holland to do some training on a Shibaura CNC machine for my mates at Leader CNC who sell these beasts.

Anyway anyone who knows me knows that I’m way too old and decrepit to actually work but unfortunately for the CNC World I still do.

I fluctuate between hating my job and retiring to go on cruises where it’s the norm to shit your pants and get a semi erection watching  a Freddy and the Dreamers tribute band.

The alternative is to carry on working and keep paying off the wife’s credit card bill which is the obvious choice.

Anyway when I landed in Amsterdam they gave me a car. First thing I thought was “why the fuck is the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car?”.

May be it was a Monday morning car and they just got it wrong. Any way I spent the next two hours trying to convince all the Dutch drivers that they needed to drive on the correct side of the road.

I made a stand for British values and refused to budge. The roads in Holland are so nice and the road makings are perfect like driving on rails. They just need to stop driving straight at you.

It’s not the same without the pot holes though these roads are for wimps not real men.

Back To Manual Guide i Access Tools

By altering a parameter you get to do this:

Click on the tool number.

There it is in yellow, then press the ALTER key

Voila the tool screen appears.

You can now modify tools or just take a good nose in there. Press CLOSE when you are pissed off with it and it will go away.

Ha ha, yours won’t work. Send £200 to me and I’ll tell you how.

Only joking, you just need to alter parameter 14705 bit 7 to a 1 and it works.

Oh and you have to shut down the machine for this to work.

By the way if you fuck your machine it’s not my fault. Take a picture or a screen shot before you alter anything. you now have a reverse gear.

I would love to take credit for this but it was my new dutch friend Gertjan who showed me how.

I get to meet some great people and he is definitely is one of them. We exchanged loads of tips he showed me this and loads of other things. I did show him something, how men really can multitask, keep an eye on the door whilst watching porn.