let me start by saying i've been running mazak mills lathes and integrex for 10 years and my experience has been mainly with 640 t and newer controls. one of the vendors of the shop i work at asked me if i could help out a friend of his with his mazak. it's a vtc-20g with mazatrol m plus control. it all pretty much looked familiar it had programs already in it and some notes for them. the program he wanted to run was a mazatrol program which then uses 4 eia sub routines that drills, deburrs taps a series of holes down the length of an extrusion and the last step is to mill a datum point at the end for another operation on another machine. i got the tools loaded and ran the whole thing and on the last tool that mills the end of the part it alarms out 101 soft limit in x. so i pushed the soft limit back in the parameters. now i want to restart just that last tool. so i go to memory, restart, it asks for a program number so i put in the subroutine number i want then it asks for sequence num. i give it the sequence number next to the subroutine program number then it wants a block number ??? and then repetitions i would say zero for that. everything i've tried so far gets me 624 restart impossible. is there something i'm missing?
thanks
pat
thanks
pat