Duplicating parts without duplicating tool changes

Hi Robo-Dan,

thanks very much for your reply. I will try it and will inform you. I hope, that will work well .

Have a nice day!

There is sometimes (well almost always) another approach.

I have only a manual tool changer which takes a couple of minutes to change.

Recently had to do a run of about 2000 identical parts using multiple tools. There was no way I was going to do 6000 tool changes.

So ran the entire run of parts with the first tool, changed tools, ran the entire batch with the second tool, etc.

This did require making a couple of simple fixtures that enabled me to just remove a part, run a brush through the vice to reduce the amount of swarf remaining, then inserting the next part in the vice, tighten the vice, then tell emc to run again.

Compared with changing tools, changing parts (in this case) was a breeze.

Tom