Configure for tool touch-off (not automatic tool measurement)

I've been looking through videos and posts but can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Maybe I'm using the wrong words.

I have both a renishaw style probe and a tool setter. My mill uses toolholders so I need to set the tool length offsets whenever I change the tool in the holder but not after every toolchange. I think the workflow I want would be:

1) Use the probe to touch the top of the setter to establish a zero point for the probe and call that the reference tool.
2) Tool change to the new tool
3) Probe the new tool to the toolsetter.
4) record the offset to the tool table.

All the documentation I'm finding for gmoccapy seems to assume automatic tool measurement after every tool change.
Please correct my thinking or point me to some relevant posts.

Hi
as the Toolholders are not on the mashine
you only need one tool to touch the part to ZERO G54
all tools outside are only a length ofset
so only the DIFFERENZ to that tool is needed

Workflow shoudt be TAKE all tools needed on the toolholders
Number them in a CASE/toolholder storige
TAKE the First WE USE the First tool as a STARTDrill always needed and this is Zero
OR if you got enoph holders take a Flat Pin in one and get it to this tool G54 Z0

Then fill by calling a routine like o<mesure> call with a Button or a Mcode Mcode can give the ToolNumber to zero
The Routine moves the Tool to the Probe on a Toolzero Coordinate system only for Toolzeroing like G59
and puts the offset to the TOOLTABLE
like
G10 L1 P<toolnumber> Z#5323
www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode/g-code.html#gcode:g10-l1
coordinate system parameters are here
www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode/g-code.html#gcode:g54-g59.3

lots of words bur very easy to use
as the G59 is relatet to the REF it stays always there
and if you need a new tool its only a MDI to set it

I think I understand what your saying. You're using your first tool (drill) as the reference tool and measuring all others relative to it. That makes sense. But I want my reference tool to be the probe so that I can use it to touch off the top of the material.

The Gmoccapy tool screen has a button for 'touchoff tool z'. Can this be configured to run the routine/macro to measure and store the offset for the current tool?

I have only just completed a remap O-subroutine to set my tool height when I change a tool - I just issue an Mxx Px command in the MDI.

Would this be any help to you?

I also want to add the probe, as you describe, but have only done the toolsetter so far.

That would be great. Thanks

Have a look at this post here .