Off-scale Soft Limits Setting in EMC

NICKKINSMAN wrote:

I am not sure what you mean by 'into the tool table'?

I meant pretty much what you are doing, pressing "touch off" then selecting the tool table from the drop-down.

Places where it could go wrong are
1) Not doing a g43 to select the tool offset
2) Starting off with a large offset in the tool table for the first tool, and transferring it as an offset to the others.

Try this sequence:

M6 T1 G43

Then, touch of the tool selecting G54, then touch it off again selecting "Tool Table" Do this for X and Z. Does this bring the preview back into the box?
If it does, you can now touch-off the other tools using "Tool Table" and you should be sorted out with T1 as the zero-length reference tool. (Which is fine, even if it isn't really zero-length)
Also, if you ever look at the tool table and see an offset in T1, you know something has gone wrong.

When you do a tool change you have to use Tn M6 G43 then select the Z axis then move to your touch off point then touch off the tool table and notice if it says Z. Then you can load a tool with Tn M6 G43 and select Z axis and touch off your stock to G54.

John

OK, yes I need to touch of the G54 then, I was not doing that, just touching off the tool table. I will do that.

Thanks!
Nick