My CNC machine is used for putting a texture on wood siding and such the like. My main problem is having my spindle dig too deep or too shallow into the piece of wood, mainly from a defect like bow or crook. I would love to have some sort of THC for this, but I need to get this going for the boss so I am going to try to fix a hardware problem with software.
Is there a way to do an axis offset while the program is running? So lets say the operator notices that the spindle is digging in too much, hit a button that adjusts the offset by + 0.05" without stopping the machine?
I have thought of having a button that executes a VB code to pause the machine, move the z-axis to +/- 0.05, re-zero it, and then continue, but I would like to know if it's possible to do without stopping.
Thanks in advance!
Ryan
P.S. I didn't know if this is the right form or not.