I am having a hard time understanding how the tool offsets work on a lathe With our HAAS machines, For the Z I set each tool to a fixed point on the machine. Then I set the diameters by machining a bit and measuring the diameter.
Then I set the G54 Z to the face of the part and leave the G54 X at machine home. I am trying to follow this same procedure for EMC and cannot seem to get it to work. I set my G54 X to machine home. My G54 Z to the end of the part. Then I set my tool 2 (cut off tool) Z to the spindle nose, (fixed point) (which is where all the tool offset Z are set) and X using the cut a diameter a measure method. (basically the same method I use on the HAAS) However, my relative position on the EMC screen never seems to change reflecting the tool. If I set T1 and T2, then in MDI type T1 M6 - I am thinking that the position should change... from the T2 position. Every time I try and run a program I get an error that I am exceeding the limits? I have been reading the manual but cannot seem to see what I am doing wrong? The lathe is a gang style table. Thanks -- Brian May ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
