Originally Posted by Delw 
I think bubba and I have pretty much the same set-up except I never use hard jaws always cutable jaws ( mild steel and alumin.). that way everything is perfect from the cad software. to the part program.
less screw ups.
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Guess I said that wrong, my zeros are on the fixed corner of the vise if you took the jaws out. All my soft jaws, or at least the ones I normally use are all 1" thick, so its really easy to figure out. I keep the table mapped in a cad file.
Its a dream set up for me. Where I used to work, most of the vises where different, most didn't work, I had one job that I had to strip the vises off about once a week to run. Now that that job has migrated back to me, me and my partner invested in a fixture that sits nicely across 3 nice new identical vises. Saves a TON of time. Its a tall part so the extra 8 inches of Z certainly helps. Best thing Fadal ever did, I have no idea how I ever lived with only 20" in Z, especially with a carousel sitting out there.