I also have a jig to set the depth of common tools like drills and mills, so that I can have 5 duplicates of the same tool and not have to worry about the offsets because it is already set. It does take the extra time to set it carefully instead of simply mounting, measuring, and setting the offsets.
On Dec 4 2016 9:19 AM, Filipe Tomaz wrote: > In my lathe(s) I have VDI tooling. > Each tool settles only on its holder, and each tool is numbered. > So I > will always use the same tool without changing offsets or angles. > Each time I need a new tool, I buy a new holder (VDI) so that my > tool > library gets larger. This is expensive but is very effective at the > long > run, due to time AND to avoid tool collisions. I even do this for > drilling > where I keep each commun drill in each holder. > Bottom rule is that a lathe collision is very nasty and make you > think: > "Why didn't I use the manual one ..." > > By the way, I sell toolholders :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
