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« on: March 08, 2015, 06:09:45 PM »
There are many ways to do it and all depends on your setup.
You can choose a tool or a probe for a master tool, call the tool and bring it down to just above the surface and then jog up incrementally until you can slip a feeler gauge in, you then set the DRO to the thickness of the feeler. You can then load another tool , jog down as before then whatever the DRO reads (minus the feeler) is the offset for the tool table.
Others have auto routines with a touch off plate wired into Mach.
I use a height setter that I have hooked into Mach so I can set tools up before they are placed into the tool changer.
Regarding BobCAD, you do not really have to set the tool lengths etc, that is just for simulation purposes, so it is entirely up to you whether you enter values or not. I just tend to enter values if it is a ,onger than standard tool when I have to reach way in somewhere, that way the simulation doesn't show the holder crashing.
Hood