On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:14:48 -0400, you wrote: > >I have a PDF copy of the Fanuc oi-mc manual and I read the section 14 on >tool length compensation and it does not say anything about storing the >actual tool length from zero (home position). It says that all tool >length compensation values are offsets from programmed position to actual.
Agreed, tool offsets are just absolute values, in machine units. They have just the same "offset" from a home position or any other programmed position and it would be counter productive to force tool offsets to behave in any other way. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
