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General Mach Discussion / How do you make a manual tool change then re zero the Z?
« on: July 19, 2016, 01:27:53 PM »
Hello guys I am pretty new to this and I'm working with Fusion 360 and Mach3 on a small Bolton Tools M4 machine. My problem is this machine has a R8 spindle with ER32 collets so every tool change is completely manual and it will need to be re zeroed between tool changes.
How do I go about doing this? Should every tool have its own code? I would like to part zero start job then when it's time to change tools the z goes up to home. Then I can change tool, zero that tool by touching off and hit cycle start again to keep the job going.
I've been searching for this for a while and cant really find anything that helps, am I missing something? I feel like this should be a common question or everyone has a auto tool changer.
Thanks in advance.
How do I go about doing this? Should every tool have its own code? I would like to part zero start job then when it's time to change tools the z goes up to home. Then I can change tool, zero that tool by touching off and hit cycle start again to keep the job going.
I've been searching for this for a while and cant really find anything that helps, am I missing something? I feel like this should be a common question or everyone has a auto tool changer.
Thanks in advance.