Tom ok, you move the knee fwiw something we used to do on the quill may be of help we'd slit a piece of conduit grind it to length and put it between the Bport quill nut and the end of the slot the nut rides in
this gives you a fast mechanical offset something like this slotted tube may work on the knee screw raise knee way up insert spacer drop knee onto spacer raise knee remove spacer you get 2 known positions from an axis w/o a readout :) (hmm or more with a set of spacers) tomp Tom wrote: > tomp <tomp-...@...> writes: > >> 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 > > Tomp, > > I think what you are asking is if I have the knee set up as a sort of > auxiliary > Z axis. The answer is that I don't have an servo/encoder on the knee - even > though it is motorized, so all of my Z level tool length adjustments that are > too great to be automatically compensated for in the G43H- commands, require > me > to stop the program (usually at the next tool change), raise or lower the > knee, > insert the next tool, and do a G43H1 touchoff, and just continue with M6T1 / > G43H1 for all the remaining tools. Tedious, but works. > > Tom > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
