I had this trouble when I first started but with a mill. Your G43 is adding the tool offset(from the table) to the work offset(G54) which already had an offset from before.
I started to keep no Z offset in the work offset and put all the Z offsets for each tool in the tool table. Using this method home the Z first,with the Z sitting at machine home go into MDI and type G49 go back to manual page and type Z and hit touch off button.Now your work offset has no Z. Remember that if you use this method,if you loaded tool 1 offsets it will stay in until you type G49,even if you change the display to machine coords. Most lathe guys like to use tool 1(usually a turning tool) to set the Z work offset,with all other tool offsets based from their tool 1 offset So your tool table Tool 1 Z offset should be zero,and all others should be small numbers that would be the difference in length from tool 1. I hope this helps BTW I thought something was wrong with EMC too. There is not.It was me. Terry On Fri Jun 5 17:37 , Kirk Wallace <[email protected]> sent: >On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 22:55 +0100, Andy Pugh wrote: >> 2009/6/5 Kirk Wallace [email protected]>: >> > >> > How do you set your home when you first start EMC? >> >> I have flags on the axes and opto-switches. They seem to be repeatable >> to about 0.05 mm, which is good enough for me. > >Okay then, ignore my previous post. I don't have anything to offer >beyond the basics. Sorry. >-- >Kirk Wallace >http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ >http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html >California, USA > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises >looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest >innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and >enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. >Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ---- Msg sent via CableONE.net MyMail - http://www.cableone.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
