Hello everybody,
In my diy toolchanger, there is z height probe sensor and five tool posts. In operation, every time there is tool changing, new tool is brought to the z height sensor and was sensed its tool length/offset. Take an example, in my machine, the vertical distance between the workpiece's surface to the sensor of the auto toolchanger is 40mm.
(sensor is at level above the workpiece surface)
1) I don't want to use the tool table for storing the tool lengths.
2) In the program as below, I also don't want to manually enter the value 40mm to the input box.
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ZNew=GetVar(2002) 'Read the touch point
Code"G0 Z" & ZNew 'Move back to hit poin tin case there was overshoot
Call Wait
z_set=Input Box("Please input the set z height")
Call SetDRO(2, z_set) 'set z DRO to input value
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So, is there any place in the Mach3 screen that I can enter this 40mm value and the program can call this value? I either don't want to load or design a new screen to cater for this fuction.
Thanks guys in advance..