On 22 May 2015 at 17:20, Marius Liebenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Then I put tool 1 in the post and do a reference cut. > I touchoff X to the cut size > I touchoff Z to the chuck face. > Save the tool table and reload > Then I do a tool change with the button in Gmoccapy and put the next > tool in and repeat the above. > > If I now put tool 1 back in and do a M6 T1 it is no longer at the same > as what it was set just now. > > Do I have the cat by the you know what here???
There are two places to set offsets. It seems likely that you are over-writing the first offset with the second. One common way to work with a lathe is to have a reference tool that has zero offsets in the tool table. You then touch-off this tool to set the G54 (55, 56, whatever) coordinate system relative to the work. You then set other tools as offsets relative to the reference tool by touching-off into the tool table. That way, when you set a new Z reference in G54 (or whatever) the controlled point of every tool moves to match. So, tool 1, test cut, set origin, second tool test-cut, set tool offset, 3rd tool same as second etc. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
