On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:15:42 +0100, you wrote: >On 12 October 2011 20:08, Chris Radek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Are you just forgetting to invoke G43? > >Out of curiosity, would you ever not want to invoke G43? (or, to put >it another way, why is it not automatic?
Damn - posted reply before I finished, >I would think you would always want to invoke G43, supposing you swap >the tools around in a changer. The offset should follow the tool, but >the tool number doesn't have to. So > >T1 G43H5 > >means the tool in position 1 has the offsets from tool table entry 5 > >My changer only has 8 slots, The only tool I never change the position >of is tool 1 (which I use as a reference tool - it has no tool offsets) >That particular tool is an SCLCR turning tool that gets used for the >majority of turn and face jobs. The rest just get put in wherever >convenient. > >Personally, I'd MUCH rather the code error than automatically add an >offset that will definitely damage the tool and machine! BUT if you are using the Txxxx format the G43 shouldn't be necessary? T0101 - tool in position 1 with offset from first table entry T0105 - tool in postion 1 with offset 5 Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
