What I am doing now is setting up a tool table using GUI. I first homed the mill. Then I would load one tool after another: for each of them, I would find the Z coordinate so that they barely clear a gage block. Then, I enter the minus of that as Z attribute of the tool.
I will try with a piece of rubber stock, to see if that method gives me consistent height betwen the tool and part, when a certain Z is commanded. - Igor On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > Igor Chudov wrote: >> Ed, thanks. >> >> What do you use to locate Z edge of a part? >> >> You cannot use a ball end electronic edge finder, right? >> > My hideous technique is to lower the tool close to the part, then feel > under the > cutting edge with a .005" thick piece of paper. When the paper starts > to drag > on the cutter, I enter .005 in the touch-off window. This works > surprisingly well. > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
