Greetings; This code to carve the clearances for the lid stay hinge when its installed on a 1.5" wide strip of Mahogany that must so wide so it can hang out on the inside edge, with a 11/32 wide groove 1/4" deep to retain the top end of the cedar plank lining, is a 3 stage & 3 tool routine, and I've rigged it so I can run each stage independently if I have to.
Using a G43 T# immediately fillowing the M6 T# seems like a good way to to set all the tools to just touch at a DRO display showing Z=0.000. But there is not near enough explanation there on page 27x of the pdf about how the Z setting in the tool table is actually used. After pulling some more of my thinng hair, it occurs to me that there ought to be one tool whose z=0.00000, and this tool is then to be loaded and used when touching off z to the work piece, and correspondingly the z entry for all other tools s/b the + or - value left after subtracting the reference tlo from it. I've not done that yet, what I have done is measure from the back face of one of the ER20 adaptors the tool is mounted in, to the tip of the mounted tool, and entering that value into the tool table with a - sign in front, which should tell LCNC to subtract that value from the co-ordinate system, as if the whole thing was zeroed with the face of the R8 holding the adaptor in contact with the work. But when I change the tool, and invoke the matchin G43 T#, z=0.00 suddenly dives nominally 4" below the top of the workpiece. This of course will NOT do considering the backplot is showing me a reasonably correct rendering. Can some kind soul describe how this TLO thing is really supposed to work? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://makebettercode.com/inteldaal-eval _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
