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    clearing all work and tool offsets

    Does any one know if it's possible to instantly clear all tool and work offsets on a VF-1 and VF-0? I'll have 20-30 height and diameter offsets to zero out, along with g54-g59 x,y,z to clear between jobs, and all I can do is select each one individually and press 0, F1. There is no clear all offsets button.

    Most of the time, I don't bother. But sometimes I'll have a offset in z or a diameter offset that I didn't clear that gets picked up wrong. I am so sick of clearing each offset that if I am using only 3 tools, I will have the entire offset page filled.

    Also does anyone know if there is a way to insert block deletes into a long section of code without individually putting them in every single line?


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    I'm pretty sure that if you go into Offsets and press ORIGIN, that will prompt you that you're about to clear ALL of the offsets. Press Y and they're gone.
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    What donkey sugests only works on the newer controls, I don't know when they changed but I know on are 1999 I have to do the 0-f1 route. I have a habbit of clearing the offsets before and after the ones that are used just so there eazyer to see.
    Just push the button,what's the worst that could happen.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SenSor View Post
    .....Also does anyone know if there is a way to insert block deletes into a long section of code without individually putting them in every single line?
    One way to do this is use M99 Pnnnn to jump over the code and use block delete to stop it reading the M99 when you do not want to jump. Something like this:

    /M99 P1111 (When block delete is OFF you jump, when it is ON you don't)
    This is the first line you want to jump over;
    ;
    ;
    This is the last line you want to jump over;
    N1111 This is the line the M99 jumps to.
    An open mind is a virtue...so long as all the common sense has not leaked out.


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    I've got a small program saved in the controller that will g10 my typically used shifts to 0
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