On Thursday 21 January 2021 07:21:45 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > In the night last nite, working on this make_wrench.ngc, I found a > problem in the new too editor. > > One of the techniques I occasionally make use of is a .001" diameter > tool, which I can drive around to different places on the backplot and > get data location points from the dro to help when fine tuning gcode. > > But in the 2.7.15 sim axis on this machine, it got a read only belly > ache if I tried to make the next new tool smaller than 1mm. > > This used to work. I had to quit the editor and restart it 7 or 8 > times before I was able over write the too small diameter, and make it > use a 1mm image for the tool image. I was not able to position the > curser to enter new data until it had been restarted many times. > > Was I doing something wrong? > I must have hit a voodoo spell, or some unwritten Murphy's law. This morning it worked after setting a .01 tool, worked well enough to verify the wrench should fit the double D-flats on the ER20 motor shaft.
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