John Guenther wrote: > Sorry for taking so long to respond to this, jury duty is keeping me > busy and tired. At any rate, I out of habit use machine coordinates all > the time. Perhaps a better example of what I would like to be able to > do is this. I use a manual tool height setter. I put it a new tool, > then jog Z down until the tool height setter shows 0 on its dial. Now I > need to be able to tell EMC that the Z axis is at 2 inches above the > work. How can I do this in EMC? I have tried the work offsets as > suggested and that is not working for me. In Mach3 I just click on the > Z axis DRO and enter 2.00 and I am ready to go. > Somewhere in the AXIS menus, I believe under the "Machine" menu, is "Touch Off". This is also available with a hot-key (could be END, check the quick reference under the help menu). This lets you enter a position for the currently selected axis.
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