Just a question of clarification: Are you just talking about how touch off measures tools. or are you actually going to enable G44.
I will again us my uncles Mori Seiki SV50 as a example since the machine tool builder added a nice side feature. Oh and for those who ask before - It has a FANUC 18MC made about 3 months before the release of the 18i. Anyway, under tool setting options it has "MEASURE" and "MEASURE GAGE".(Actually they might both be MEASURE but on different screens.) The MEASURE softkey stores the machines G53 Z axis position to the selected tool offset. The MEASURE GAGE soft key dose the same, but modifies the value by the gauge length defined on the SETTINGS page. I personally like to set tools referenced to the machine table when ever possible, then put a Z value in the G54-G59 to define how high the Zero plain is above the table. When the table is not assessable I set tool to the work and leave the G54-G59 Z at 0.000 . Greg Forever trying to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
