I am trying to wrap my head around lathe tool offsets. Say I have a reference tool with both X and Y offsets of zero.
Now I have a threading tool and it sticks out 0.252" farther in the X direction than the reference tool. Is that a 0.252 positive X offset? It sticks out 0.176" farther towards the spindle nose than the reference tool. Is that also a positive Z offset? What if I have a smaller tool can I use a negative offset for Z and/or X offsets? If I back off my toolpost to change tools (part of the gcode) and follow the tool change code with a G43, will my tool move into the proper position when I make the next move if all my moves are setup based on the reference tool? In particular, if I put on a cutoff tool, an move a cut off position based on the front corner of my reference tool (and have my tool offsets for the cutoff tool set correctly) will my cutoff tool be in the correct position for parting off? Thanks, Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
