Ric,
Heres the answer to the torch raising all the way up between cuts. I set mine exactly the way Mike said and I love it.
"When cutting the torch goes all the way up basically to the Home height
> then lowers to cut the next hole. Is there a setting to change this
> during the cutting process?"
>
> There are several ways to do this.
> The simplest one is to go to the " "Setup"- "machine settings", then to
> the "Homing tab".
> On the homing tab there will be an "offset" for the Torch homing. This
> is how far away the torch moves to and calls "home" after it sensed the
> top of the slide travel. The default is 1/4" If you set this value to,
> let's say, 2.5". Then, during homing the torch will go to the top of the
> slide searching for the end of travel, when it hits the top, it will
> move down 2.5" and call that "home". Now when you cut, the torch will
> retract only to the "home" position between cuts. Which could be only
> 1/2" above the part.
Ed |