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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 tool offset problem
« on: June 09, 2014, 11:28:26 PM »
I'm running Mach 3.042.040 on a 3 axis mill.
I was having a scary situation where sometimes tool offsets I had set weren't getting applied properly and I figured out what is going on.
If you manually use a screen button select to Tool 0 to set its zero reference, tool offsets are turned off as you can see in the Offsets page.
Clicking on the Auto Tool Zero button when another tool is selected by either a button or in a program will then turn Tool Offsets back on.
However if the tool change is selected in the program and offsets are off from previously manually selecting tool 0, they won't be turned back on by the program selection of a tool so a previously set offset for this tool won't be used.
Is this a bug or was it done by design for some reason?
Was it fixed in later Mach versions and is there a more stable Mach 3 version than the one I'm running?
I was having a scary situation where sometimes tool offsets I had set weren't getting applied properly and I figured out what is going on.
If you manually use a screen button select to Tool 0 to set its zero reference, tool offsets are turned off as you can see in the Offsets page.
Clicking on the Auto Tool Zero button when another tool is selected by either a button or in a program will then turn Tool Offsets back on.
However if the tool change is selected in the program and offsets are off from previously manually selecting tool 0, they won't be turned back on by the program selection of a tool so a previously set offset for this tool won't be used.
Is this a bug or was it done by design for some reason?
Was it fixed in later Mach versions and is there a more stable Mach 3 version than the one I'm running?