nrh tool setup

[johnmb]

Hi Dave
I have set my tools to be all in NRH holders but they dont show up
as NRH as the dro dosn;t light up green were as if they are empty the dro shows up yellow to let you know its empty when scrolling across the tool table .Is there a problem with \Msm I'm using V2.04
and \mach3 version 3.043.66.
John

[DaveCVI]

Hi John,
I believe the LEDs for Empty tool and RH/NRH are working as documented. Though maybe not as you might have expected them to work...

The Empty led is on (yellow) when a tool table entry is empty. It is off (grey) when it is NOT empty. This is because the yellow indicator is trying to draw the operators attention to a tool # that is not ready to be used (i.e. it is an empty tool holder).

Also note that the NRH/RH LED is active only when the tool is "not empty". I.e. an empty tool holder forces the NRH/RH led to NRH as the off led condition (which seemed to make sense as the state to show for "we don't know what this NRH/RH is really".

For the NRH/RH LED the states are defined as:
(from user manual section 5.4.1.8) The LED off indicates a NRH tool holder, while the LED On indicates a RH tool holder.

This makes the off/grey LED state the NRH text and the On/Green state the RH text on a Green LED condition.

As I write this, I realize that this could be a tad confusing. There are other ways this combintaiton could have been implemented, but I believe that the actions I'm seeing show that MSM is doing what is documented to do.

Could you be looking at a series of empty tool holders as you scroll thru the tool numbers in the Tool browse panel?
In that case, the NRH/RH led will always be off/grey no matter what the NRH/RH radio buttons are set to.

Try a series of non-empty holders and THe NRH/RH led will then follow the NRH/RH radio buttons from the tool edit dialog.

Dave

P.S. As we are talking about NRH/RH holdres etc, and these are Mill concepts, I moved the thread from the turn/mill-turn board to the mill support board - just doing a tad of housekeeping as I go.