Tony Zampini wrote: > Or, to put it another way, how are > users of EMC2 currently determining the new z offset after changing tools, > assuming they don't use a probing feature? Just curious. > Each tool is run in a different program. With manual tool changing, it is often more time-efficient to perform all operations with one tool on all the workpieces, making the fixture of the part very fast to swap, and just hit the run button for each workpiece. When all of those are done, then set up the next tool and run that. You only need to set up the Z coordinate between tools.
I've been doing it this way for over a decade on nearly all my parts. The other way is you have a master tool which has a tool length of zero, you touch off that part before starting. All other tools have a known length difference from that tool, which is entered into the tool table, and the programs use tool length offsets. I haven't used this technique in a while, but for things that are hard to set up on the fixture, this is the way to do it. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
