I added some risers to give me more Z space for deeper cuts. However, with this new z depth, some of my shorter tools will not reach the Easy tool setter to auto zero on the F4 screen.
I am wondering the value of this Z depth setting when for every project I’m using the XYZ touch probe and generating my workpiece coordinates for each tool path manually.
I think the solution for you is to shim the auto tool setter up by 2".
The z-height of the tool setter is not critical. It can be placed at whatever height you want.
It IS critical, that when you change the Z-height of the tool setter, you re-home and touch off the tools again, and re-set the Z=0 setting.
It would also work if you just stuck a 1", or 2" “puck” on the tool setter itself. Not a particularly elegant solution though.
Thanks for the response Mike. I’m just wondering the value of the tool setter Z values in the first place…unless this is better suited to situations where all toolpaths with different tools are all run from one gcode file? I usually run my toolpaths as individual gcode files and am manually measuring Z off of the stock for each.
I’m not sure I am wrapping my head around your question properly.
The height of the tool setter is not known to the machine. There is no Z-height associated with the tool setter position. We often think the tool setter measured the length of the tool, but what it’s really doing is measuring how much longer or shorter the tool is compared to whatever tool was used to set Z0 on your program. You might be curious about a value that doesn’t exist?
Hope that helps??
If it works, it works, but I have a feeling your workflow is more steps that is required.
If you do tool changes infrequently, a simpler, but more time consuming approach is probably best. If you change tools a lot, it’s more efficient to spend some time understanding the tool change logic, and having tool changes built into the G-code.
OK I get it. Thanks for the clarification!