Chris Radek wrote: > > To do this setup manually in AXIS is pretty easy now that you can > touch off any coordinate system using the Machine menu. For example > to set G54 and G55 one inch apart on X: > > Jog X to the position where you want G54 > touch off, enter 0.0 > touch off G55, enter -1.0 > I believe I tried this, and it most definitely did not work this way for me. Now, here you say touch off enter 0.0 touch off G55. I'm not sure of the exact sequence, it seems the second touch off would just change the G54 system. Did you mean to do the G55 in MDI first, or it doesn't matter, as long as the MDI G55 is entered before the OK is clicked on the second touch off?
Anyway, if this is so, then the Axis documents need to be updated, it says that the touch off function sets the G54 coordinates, not the currently active coord system. > In gcode if you want to temporarily set up a coordinate system to > machine some features using easier numbers, try G92. To do the > same kind of task, but in gcode: > > G0 x0 y0 > G81 z-1 ... (drill something here) > > G92 x-1 (set up a temporary system 1" to the right) > > G0 x0 (use an easier number, but now we are really an inch over) > G81 z-1 ... (drill at the temporary origin) > > G92.1 (back to normal) OK, this works, but requires you to enter just one offset system each time. I can see some cases where it would be real handy to have multiple part offsets loaded beforehand and switch around between them easily. I guess you can do this, not too cumbersome. Thanks, Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
