On 31 Jul 2014, at 05:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > I have an autoz routine that measures the length of a mill or drill bit to > precisely set the etching depth of a pcb being milled. > > The typical .drill file from eagle may need 6 or 7 drills before its done. > > I wasn't having what I would call predictable results from using the tool > length adjuster, G43.1 I think it is, so I switched to the G10 L2 P# > method,
Have you tried G10 L20 P~ X~ Y~ Z~ Does it suffer from the same problem? Marcus > since I run the top of the board stuff in G55, and the bottom of > the board stuff in G56. > > But that isn't working all that well, and I have deduced that everytime I > use it, even though I use it from the G54 environment, the resultant > offsets are acting cumulative. Is there a fix for that, or do I need to > first reset it to a zero offset based on the current machine's G53, then > issue the command to set the Z offset from that known Z location to re- > init it, then do the P1, P2 versions? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Infragistics Professional > Build stunning WinForms apps today! > Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. > Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users