[quote]It's a way to automatically set Z to exactly 1" above the material to be cut. It works by touching the spindle tool to a sensor, which is nothing more than a piece of copper connected to a pin on the parallel port. The Mach2 macro lowers Z until it touches, slowly backs out until it lifts off the sensor, subtracts the sensor's depths and marks that as zero. It then moves back to +1".[quote]
It is true the link doesn't work, but I have a question anyway.
If you change the tool in the spindle then how can you set the Z zero, since there are different length tools?
This is something that I would love to work out. How to make an automatic Z zeroer.
How is it done on professional machines? |