Masso Foreman with vCarve 12.5

Machines (Elite Series)
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Hi All,

This is my first post on the forum. I’ve been setting up a few jobs, and I updated to vCarve Pro 12.5 today. I’ve spent hours trying to figure out why when I started my job, the machine would centre on the X axis, and ask me to insert my tool, I click Cycle Start because it was already in place, it then went to the home position and went to the Z 0 position, but it didn’t activate the spindle??? So I stopped the job for investigation.

I’m only using a single tool, and in vCarve I had it set to tool number 1 (naturally), I then put the job on the controller, started it off and it asked me to insert the tool?, I thought that’s a bit odd I’m only using 1 tool, and in vCarve it only shows 1 tool in the toolpath settings.
Anyway it took me hours of trouble shooting, and I noticed on the Masso controller (v 5.10) it had Tool 2 on the program and MDI screen, so I changed my tool number in vCarve to 2 and loaded the job on the Masso and it all started working again!!

Is this normal, this hasn’t happened before.

Thanks!

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Can be confusing I guess but rather than change your program one way you could have dealt with this would have been to be in the MDI screen type T1M6 and press enter.

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Thanks @forrey - I guess I’m not understanding why the controller has a default tool number of 2, how did it get to 2, and if its default tool number was originally 1, would the touch probe become tool 1 when installed? Resulting in Tool 2 being the new default for jobs?