On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:22 -0700, "Speaker To-Dirt" <speaker_2_d...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > For what it's worth. I stumbled across this by accident..... At a tool > change take your tool to an area where there's still a surface z0.000. > End the move with z1.000. Remove the tool, and insert the new tool. > Now use a clamp arm from your clamp kit that is 1" on a side. Raise or > lower the knee until your tool is just touching the upper surface of > your clamp arm. You're now indexed 1.00x inches above your work.
Be careful with this. Clamps sets are not precision items. If you measure your 1" thick clamps with a micrometer, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that one clamp is 1.004, and another is 0.998. I'd only be a little surprised to find that a single clamp is 1.001 at one end and 1.003 on the other end. A dowel pin works great for this - very precise, and you can simply push it against the side of the tool, then raise the tool (or lower the knee) slowly until the pin rolls under. Don't lower the tool onto the dowel (or a clamp, or any other piece of metal). It doesn't take much to chip the edge of a carbide tool, or dull a steel one. John Kasunich -- John Kasunich jmkasun...@fastmail.fm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
