Tom wrote: > Tom <kestrel...@...> writes: > > Youtube videos: If you click on the blue "Watch video in high quality" in the > lower rh corner you can see the screen text. > > The part in the photos in the down facing side of a triple tree clamp. I like > that side because of the visible machine work. The circular ring shaped > pockets > are for the fork springs. > > Because I only have 4.9" of Z axis movement on the quill, I have to use two > different tool length offset tables: one for the short tools and one for > the long tools. I quickly learned that your reference tool has to be > the shortest one in the table, since all offset variables must be positive > integers. It was actually easier to program the nasty old Bandit III > controller for tool offsets - as much as I hate to say it. With Emc2, > I wish I had a VMC with an automatic toolchanger. > > Tom > interesting idea about short stroke but (appartently) longer manual backslide
do you go from some stop to another or end of stroke to end of stroke for the 2 sets? thanks tomp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
