CONTROLLING METHOD FOLLOWING SPINDLE TOOL TYPE AND TOOL BE OR NOT OF AUTOMATIC TOOL CHANGING DEVICE

摘要

PURPOSE: A control method of an automatic tool exchange device according to the kind and the existence and nonexistence of a spindle tool is provided to operate a machine tool by calling a corresponding macro program. CONSTITUTION: A control method of an automatic tool exchange device according to the kind and the existence and nonexistence of a spindle tool is as follows. The command number of tools is designated, and the tools are divided into normal tools and long tools depending on the corresponding command number(S100). It is determined whether a tool is installed on a main spindle depending on a macro variable value corresponding to the command number(S200). A macro program is loaded based on the determined results(S300).