2009/6/6 Terry <[email protected]>: > 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
I think that was the way I was thinking of working. So, use T1 (which does do 90% of the work) as a zero-offset tool, always touched-off into G54 (or perhaps G55 etc for the other chuck) and then touch-off other tools into the tool table as relative to Tool 1. I suspect a part of my problem is the G-code I am running, which is generic turning/facing/boring routines I wrote. These turn/face/bore to a value starting from the the jogged-to position by doing a G28.1 to store the start point in #5161 - #5163 and then subtracting the G54 offsets (#5221-#5223) to get relative coordinates to move to. The G28.1 uses the real machine coordinates not the displayed machine coordinates (See Chris Radek's post earlier) and that might be part of my confusion. Especially as I have been using (debug, #5161) and similar lines to look at the parameters, and they have not been corresponding to the on-screen display However, even given all these factors, I really did have a lathe which would jog a few inches in any direction, but would not G1 of G0 even a mm in any axis, complaining about exceeding limits. (and not always complaining about the axis being moved, I think, but it was late, I was annoyed, and memory is hazy) -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
