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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lifting Z first and always?
« on: October 27, 2005, 11:44:16 PM »My problem was that once I had the Z zeroed where I wanted it, I told it to return to where it was when the tool change started. As luck would have it, the only screw I was using to hold down that corner was directly in the path of the return to pre-toolchange. Since my z didn't lift first, Snap. It returned perfectly to where I wanted and would have been at the right height as well had the point not been snapped off.
My question. Is there a way to force Mach to raise the Z before any rapid moves?
It does this fine when running otherwise. Just kinda curious. Thanks in advance.
Lee I don't quite follow you. I am not using Mach3 ( Mach2) but the principal still should be the same. If your program has a tool change written in the code shouldn't it go to x0y0z0 as part of the program, or is your program written to alert you to a needed change and then you use MDI to do it??
Can you post the part of the code where the tc happened and include just through where the bit was snapped?
Mike
Just in case you have not received the thanks you deserve.....thanks! I have not started to use Mach3 yet but I have been watching the wizards develop and am anticipating when Mach4 will be ready. That is when I plan my change over....unless of course I change sooner!