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Advanced Haas Mill Programming Techniques Training Manual Page 9
Below gives an Advanced Tool Management screen where two tools have already expired and T3 is the
active too which is doing the drilling. Note in the upper left hand corner the Tool Group Window: Group
1000 was set up as group ¼ DRILL. The manner in which the tools were to be used was IN ORDER. In the
Tool Life Limits Window in the right upper corner the limit for the drill is set to 6 HOLES.
The black bar on top gives that Tool 3 is in the Spindle.
The Tool Data screen is the active screen above. Highlighted in yellow Tool 3 has 17% life left. Cursoring to
the right gives:
TOOL #: Gives the tool number. Pressing Origin key and it will zero out all the data in the window
for the respective tool.
EXP (Expire) is used to obsolete a tool. A tool may manually made obsolete by keying in an asterisk
(*) and then pressing Enter key.
CRNT PKT: The pocket the highlighted tool is in.
H-CODE: Gives the H number that is used when tool 3 is used. This may be changed to a different
number
D-CODE: Gives the D number that is used when tool 3 is used. This may be changed.
FLUTES: The number of flutes the tool has.
HOLES: The current number of holes the drill has drilled.
FEED TIME /TOTAL TIME: Gives the time the tools has been in feed mode and total time respective.
USAGE: The number of times the tool has been called up using an M6 command
LOAD: Max load the spindle has seen running the tool
After new tools have been replaced with new tools it is necessary to go back in the Advanced Tool
Management page in Current Commands. F4 to the Tool Data Page highlight the TOOL# and press the
ORIGIN key. This will zero out the data of the respective tool in the Tool Data Page.