Hi David, G92 seems to work, I will try that when I move the EMC computer to the shop tomorrow and try once again to cut some parts with EMC. Last weekend I had to switch back to Mach3 because the frustration factor got way too high with EMC.
Thanks for the help. John Guenther 'Ye Olde Pen Maker' Sterling, Virginia On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 08:32 -0400, D.C.Clark wrote: > On 3/25/2010 7:19 AM, 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. > > > > Thanks > > > > John Guenther > > 'Ye Olde Pen Maker' > > Sterling, VIrginia > > > > > Hi John, > > MDI: G92 Z2.0 > > see page 90 of http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/EMC2_User_Manual.pdf > > David Clark in Southern Maryland, USA > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
