Scadvice, Thank you for the Links to the manuals, They will come in very handy. I do not know crap about this machine and the Owner doesn't know much about it either to I am sure these will be nice to reference.
Dayjob...
My experience is about 12 years on Fanuc18M,Acromatic 850 and 2100 controls( I do tool design with Unigraphics and programming the mills via WorkNC, last January we laid off the dayshift setup/operators and I have been running the mills again as well,back to my roots... ).
Night Job
On the Fadal type88 I can zero out my block and feed programs to it via Assist but thats about it. The manuals will come in very handy as I like to know the whys as well as the how to's.
What I have been doing sofar is using Manual-> SETX SETY and touching my tool tip off on a Gage block, then SETZ , manually jogging the Z the height of the block then SETZ again. It's been working sofar but some jobs it's a pain.
Donnelson, thank you for the offer, I wont be "at the mill" until 4-5PM eastern time. I did see that the shop in the bay next door had a 4020 in it and asked their operator about it. I think I have what I need, though it seems the ATC is not working, it wont cycle around. The owner said it worked when they set up the machine. Time to look at those manuals
... But I think I can at least touch off my tools and load them in manually using the SL 1, -1 (touching off 1" block off the workpiece). SL2, -1 etc... then just use for tool 1 G54G43Z1.H1 in my program and leave out the toolchange commands.