Is that a horizontal milling machine?
Hi,
Can anyone help out, the tool offset datum every now and then will change datum from Z to Y which causes problems setting tool offsets and the only way i know of getting it back to z datum is to power down the machine and traverse datums.
See attached JPEG.
Thank you
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Is that a horizontal milling machine?
what G code do you have active G17..G18...or G19 ?
The tool offsets depends on the type of tool (milling or turning tool) and on the active plane selected by the G-Code G17 / 18 / 19.
For a milling tool the tool length is defined in Z with G17. That's the default case.
If you observe that the tool length sometimes is effective in Y instead of Z I would expect that you changed your active plane from G17 to G18.