fanuc 18T workshift question?

[cuz1007]

I run a daewoo puma 250. Establish Z0 by touching off face of grips, enter this value in geometry offset page. This is what i was taught , works fine for me, but here's the question , If I want to make the part longer by .030" I have to enter z-.030 in the workshift page. No big deal you just have to think backwards I guess. Is there anyway to fix this or is this just how the machine control works ???

[Daleb]

We have various Fanuc controls on a three different machine manufactors and they all work that way.

[sinha_nsit]

You can use a different offset number. Add (or subtract) the difference in depth in the H-column, corresponding to the new offset number.