I made a drilling program for the front face of a rod on turn-mill machine (Spinner TC-400) with Siemens 840D SL control panel (NCU 710.3). It worked properly with indexing values (x,y,z) of the chuck but when I ran the program via CAM, it shows an error on C-axis:

-Error# 12050 :DIN Address C1 not configured

I tried to index the chuck manually in MDI Interface of the machine with G1 command but it did not accept any of the words 'C' 'C1' 'C4' 'SP1' 'SP2'. 

I want to know the digits/letters used to operate the C-axis and work on my CAM-generated program with C axis. 

Hello

You can check at c axis tab.

Machine data 10000 20070,20080 if geometry 20050,20060.

Please share pic of above data.

Regards

Rudra automation

Thanks for replying!

I've attached a pdf containing the pictures. 

Can you please explain the procedure for activation of C axis as C3?

I have already tried operating it using the MDI interface but it does not accept C3 command. 

HI,

Assuming you are using the spindle as a rotary axis you need to switch the operation over with M70.

Pee

Ghulam Abbas

Thanks for replying!

I've attached a pdf containing the pictures. 

 Hello Abbas,

Please refer your attached ima.you are using total 6 axis or so.

You are data in machine axis used no is missing for 6th axis.

I.e. MD 20070[5] is 0 on your attached.

Please set it as 6 for 6th axis.

Also  axis channel name in MD 20080[5]=C3.

Hope this will help you.

Regards

Rudra automation