For tool measurements off the taper of the holder, for cat 40 and cat 50 at least it should be easy to even purchase blocks to use on the surface plate with a height gage. Every place I worked at had some, so I never had to source out. If this is available for your tool holders it provides nice consistent measurements. Simplicity over a matching ring on blocks would be my thought here. Both work the same in the end, less parts to keep clean and together would make things more convenient.
Now if you mount this to a plate and make a bar with grooves 1" apart wide enough to to hold an arm that positions a micrometer spindle over the center of the tools, you have a nice presetter. The grooves counted get you the inches, the micrometer head the decimals. This is nice for shop use if you want to keep surface plate and height gage out of the shop. Below is a "i think this would work in emc2" (don't have a running emc2 machine yet) If you touch work offset with one of the tools measured in such a presetter, you should be able to "relate the presetter numbers with emc2". As the delta between the tools would be the same, as long as the control knows where Z0 is with one of the tools, it would know it for the rest. We use this and it works perfect until we have someone flip numbers and rapid into the part. And still, the benefit of setting up tools for the next job, while the machine runs, always pays off. We made a program that runs each tool .005" over a 2" touch probe. If it lights up, check tool length, it's at least preventing crashes, easier to rerun to cut more than to add material. ;) Hope any of this is of use to you. On Sep 8, 2010 9:51 AM, "Andy Pugh" <a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: On 8 September 2010 15:25, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> wrote: > (then start program that again ... Maybe practice on polystyrene foam... -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
