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arobustus

Member

From: Providence, RI

Registered: 2006-05-13

Posts: 18

Using "Touch" and "TouchComponentName"

Hi All,
I am trying to get a realistic treatment of Main Spindle collet opening and closing in a Swiss type machine. When the bar feeder is on, if you open the collet, the stock will drift out. Actually it will do more than drift. Anyway, my thought was to use TouchComponentName and then Touch in the M11 word address, identifying the stock as the component to which to apply the touch command. When I try to do this I get:
Error: Invalid Override Value: Stock
Error: Invalid Override Value: "Stock"
Error: Invalid Override Value: Stock (0,0,0)
Error: Invalid Override Value: "Stock (0,0,0)"
You can see that I tried everything.
I thought it may have been because  TouchComponentName disallowed stock components, but any comonent I try to name has the same results, eg:
Error: Invalid Override Value: MainSpindle
Error: Invalid Override Value: Fixture
What gives?
Thank You,
Paul Hossfield

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SergeV

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From: Irvine, CA

Registered: 2004-10-08

Posts: 507

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Re: Using "Touch" and "TouchComponentName"

Hi Paul,

The Macro TouchComponentName expects an alpha-numeric value. You probably put the component name as an "Override Value" for the macro, remove it and add the component name to the "Override Text" field.

Serge