setting work coordinates through program

[lsrengineering]

Using a probe I have a program written to probe a tooling ball on a fixture mounted on a 4th axis and I have the values from that probing assigned to system variable #'s so I can do the math calculations to get to the actual fixture zero. What I want to do is take those values from the system variables and apply them to the g5# work offset values so when the machine is turned on daily It knows where it is. This is a setup program and only needs to be run once when the fixture is first set up.

[Andre' B]

On most Mit and Fanuc controls the work offsets are available as variables.

      Axis 1 Axis 2 Axis 3 Axis 4 ...
  G54 #5221  #5222  #5223  #5224
  G55 #5241  #5242  #5243  #5244
  G56 #5261  #5262  #5263  #5264
  .
  .
  .

Locations for extended offsets are not so standard but your programming manual should have this info.

You can also use G10 to put the results in the work offsets.

[insanedragons]

Thanks Andre, i was wondering about those variables.. i hadn't read the manuals enough really.

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