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« on: June 18, 2011, 12:21:29 PM »

Got an odd one here, i need to move the z axis to -32 relative to the machine coords regardless of what offsets are in force. It's going in a toolchange macro to set the z height for the toolchange. Is there a G code to do this.?
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2011, 12:28:31 PM »

G53 Z-32
Could it be this simple ?
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2011, 12:32:40 PM »

 Smiley,

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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2011, 12:37:34 PM »

i tried that and it just added the 32 to the current z offset
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« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2011, 12:51:14 PM »

ah, i know why my try didn't work.
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« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2011, 12:55:04 PM »

to get a fast feedrate should i use a G0,

G53 G0z-32.00

or use a feedrate value

G53 Z-32 F1000
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« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2011, 01:04:04 PM »

the G0 does the trick.

Thanks.
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