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Topic: SCR200 Toolchanger
Conf: DMIS Question and Answer, Msg: 5092
From: Terry Prather (tprather@dexteraxle.com)
Date: 11/19/2003 08:25 AM

Open and change the .cfg file in wordpad or notepad setting SCR200 installed to NO and save it. Run calibtip.dmi ensuring your tip from the module down is only 20 mm long. You should be working afterwards. If you need to tweek the values, switch to machine coordinates, display the DRO, disable the probe tip, move into the stall and write down the coordinates from the display for each stall. Be very careful as the probe is completely vulnerable when it is disabled and ensure when you are done you enable the probe prior to performing anything. Go back into the .cfg file and manually set the values for each stall. Remember 0 in the .cfg file is actually 1 on the SCR200. When you do go to change a tip make sure you use slow speed and watch it very closely. If it's going to crash you should be able to stop it and measure about how much the .cfg needs to change to correct the problem. It sounds like a real pain, but the actual effort isn't too bad and you should only have to do it once baring a major crash into the SCR200, addition of extensions to the PH10 or moving the SCR200 on the granite. I always liked to use the pull down CMM, tip change to check each of them and to load the module into position. For example, when everything is set up correctly go into tip change, set the current tip to 1, select put, manually put 2 on and repeat the above step indexing by the tip number/docking position you desire. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Terry W. Prather