Acu-Rite CNC 3500i user manual Simulation Tool and Offset Tables

Simulation Tool and Offset Tables

The 3500i includes the advanced ability to utilize a second set of the tool and offset tables, which apply only to Simulation mode. This allows a user to create and simulate programs in the background while running another program in the NC Program Run mode, without any interference between the two modes.

The Simulation Tool Table and Offset Table are structured and behave the same as the regular NC tables. When this feature is enabled, additional soft key buttons are available for accessing and altering the Simulation tables in Preview mode in the Editor and in Simulation Draw. When this feature is disabled, the buttons are not available.

When this feature is enabled, programs being running in Simulation mode will utilize these special Simulation tables, and thus will appear to behave exactly the same as they would in Program Run mode. Write operations within Tool Call blocks and Offset definition blocks will be applied and saved to the Simulation tables, just as they would normally do in Program Run mode with the NC tables. There are also features available which allow the user to copy the data from the Simulation tables to the NC tables, and vice versa.

When this feature is disabled, programs in Simulation mode will instead retrieve the tool and offset data from the standard NC tables. In order to eliminate the possibility of a simulated program altering the NC tables, all write operations in Simulation mode are ignored, such as the "H"/"UpdTable" parameter in the Tool Call block. In this context, programs being simulated must have all tool and offset data defined within the program, or all tool and offset data previously entered into the NC tables prior to entering Simulation mode.

By default, this feature is disabled. The use of the Simulation tables can be enabled/disabled in the configuration, via the entry "useSimTables" under the section UserSetup -> CfgTooltableSettings.

4.1 Tool Table

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