I was playing around with my machine yesterday, trying to learn the functions of the buttons and menus in Axis. I got to the Touch Off button and I not sure I'm doing the right thing or if I'm getting the right behavior from the button (this is all done via "air" machining).
I moved my X axis to where I'd simulated my part to be, hit the Touch Off button, and the little window popped up. I entered 0.0 with P1 G54 selected in the pull down. Some activity - disks whirling, small activity bar, etc, then a warning window popped up saying the machine had to be "homed" to do that. So, I homed the machine again, moved to the same spot where I was before, and repeated the "touch off" with the same results. Re-homed the machine, ran the touch off from the home position, and set in 2.0 with P1 G54 selected in the pulldown, and it sorta worked this time. I didn't get the warning/error message, but now when the machine is homed, it shows the virtual cutter in the Axis display 2" down the X axis even though the cutting head is sitting in the home position. Not exactly the intended results, at least for what I was thinking the "Touch Off" function to be. Is this correct behavior? If so, how do I accurately touch off on a work piece and then set the work pieces location as an offset from the "Home" position so the machine knows where the work piece is? Thanks, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
