Mori Seiki MSC-501 Limit tool offset

[champshire]

Working on a VMC today. Mori Seiki vintage 1995ish. I would like to limit the allowable tool offset to .010 in the wear page.

I got out my Fanuc hymnal, and I believe it to cross over to a Fanuc 18I control. Book says parameter to set is 5013 for this instance. When I type in .010 I get an error "Invalid format". This has me stumped as my Doosan allows me to type this in with no issue.

Can anyone steer me in the right direction? Does this need to be input in metric meters instead? What is the conversion in this case?

[champshire]

currently it's set to zero meaning there is no restriction as to what could be entered. This is the issue. Operator typed -.020 instead of -.002. I would like to limit this to .010 as even if it is screwed up in the future there would still be material to grind.

I am chasing pins on crankshafts in a 4 axis vmc, so .010 on tool height is .020 off the pin diameter. we run them .050 oversize so there is some for grind. this would leave me .030 on diameter in a worst case scenario.

[CNCAppsJames]

That value needs to be put into the parameter with no decimals.
.010" = 100 (if machine is in inches)

You are correct 5013 is for length comp and 5014 is for diameter/radius comp.

[champshire]

Thank you. I will try that on Monday when I am back on site.

[JakeL]

That value needs to be put into the parameter with no decimals.
.010" = 100 (if machine is in inches)

You are correct 5013 is for length comp and 5014 is for diameter/radius comp.

Do you have the whole fanuc parameters manual downloaded into your brain? I swear every time I'm looking for a parameter number I find the answer in one of your old forum posts, it's honestly impressive.

Just the other day I was looking for the parameter number to allow canned cycles in G18 / G19, and sure enough one of your old posts had exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for that by the way.

[champshire]

James is a wealth of knowledge for sure. The best part is that he shares! I purposely posted my question to this forum because I know he frequents here a lot and would help me out. I find myself googling stuff and sure enough his name will pop up in a thread on Emastercam.

[CNCAppsJames]

It's truly my pleasure to help.

I wish I had the parameter manuals memorized. That would be awesome. 😁

[champshire]

Update on this....I finally got back to it....100 into parameter 5013 is what I needed to limit tool length offset to .010 in tool wear. Thanks so much for the help. This should help keep the operators from fat fingering tool length when we are cutting pins.