On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:08:32AM +0000, Tom wrote: > I have 2 unrelated questions: > > Cradek mentioned that in the CVS Head version of Emc2/Axis, it is possible > to do M6T(X), then touch off for the tool offset and it will automatically > adjust thevalue in the tool offset table - I have tried and looked for this > feature but to no avail.
In AXIS, you can perform tool length touch off as follows: * make sure the desired tool is loaded with MDI TxM6 * select the Z axis, then click Touch Off * in the Touch Off window, select "Tool Table" * in the Touch Off window, enter the appropriate value. * When you click OK, the length is entered in the tool table and G43 tool length compensation is enabled even if they weren't before The "appropriate value" means pretty much the same thing as in regular touch off. For instance, if you enter 0.5 then AXIS finds the tool length that would make the current tooltip position be Z0.5 when tool length compensation is turned on. This is of course fully keyboardable (the way I do it): F5 "T1M6" ENTER F3 -- to load the tool and switch back to manual jogjogjog Z END Alt-T "0.5" ENTER -- to do the touch-off process I don't think you can touch off tool diamter in the AXIS GUI. You can also access the tool table directly in MDI through G10 L1 ... as documented in the gcode reference. There, you can set the tool diameter. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
