Originally posted by richardl
Doesn't the homing function do this with the limit switches? I don't have my limit switches installed on my FC system to I don't know how well it works in practice. |
Richard, I could use a limit switch in this fashion, but my problem lies in semi-automating it so that program Z = 0 is automatically set. The limit switches normally set machine 0, not program 0. I'm having a tough time devising some sort of macro process which will do this.
Eric, I remember that thread and that is what got me started a bit in doing this process. I know that I can make an accurate fixture, it's incorporating it into a tool-change sequence that's giving me grief. The best that I can do right now is note the relative Z produced by a newly chucked tool in the collet, and manually altering the program Z=0 given the new tool's Z.
Thanks guys.