Originally Posted by jsheerin  A more precise way to fine tune the Z axis is with a dial indicator mounted in your spindle. Sweep it front to back and side to side to see how to adjust the alignment. I put a 123 block on my mdf spoil board and indicated off of that when I aligned my z axis. This would be after you surfaced your spoil board - that will make it in the same plane as your x and y axes. Some might say that's overkill, but it got my cuts a bit smoother. |
I need to do that but I haven't looked into it with mach 3. Is there a command in mach 3 to do that? I was thinking about just running up some gcode for it but I'd think there would be something built in for it.