From posted replies here is what is currently in Appendix F of the LazyTurn manual.
6.1 TOOL TABLE
As of this writing or until Mach3 Turn is updated a few comments are noteworthy:
1.Do not use front and rear tools definitions for your tools. Choose one or the other but not both.
2.I don’t recommend using the other settings such as tip direction, diameter, and wear offsets. Frankly, I have never used them and not sure if they are buggy, but irrelevant you won’t be using them because of pre compensated code.
3. The tool table lists 253 tools, but you can only use 99 of them because of the
the tool numbering format in Mach3 Turn is based on industry standards of 99
tools.
4. Tool “0” is not accepted as a call out in some programs.
Lathes use the format TAABB to define the tool number and the offset.
AA is the tool number – T01 to T99
BB is the offset number – TAA01 to TAA99
The offset can be associated to a tool. IE; you have 9 tools with a specific offset based on the tip radius as follows:
T0101
T0202
T0303
T0404
T0505
T0606
T0707
T0808
T0909
Then you can also have another set based on center line of the tip radius by just manually changing the number and adjusting the offset by the radius in the tool table as follows:
T2001 or T0111 or T0121
T2102
T2203
T2304
T2404
T2505
T2606
T2707
T2808
T2909
The user would know that series “T20 –T29 are to be used for LazyTurn. Same tool just
a different offset. All that really matters is that the user have some kind of logic so the proper tool is defined in the LazyTurn Tool dialog. This would not require modifying the original tool offsets and allow for the use of the same series of tools to be used with a different offset.
The controller ( Mach3Turn) applies offsets in strict order so first part offset, then the program offset, then the tool offset and other modifications as defined by the program.
( confirm order )
RICH