Eazy Z Tool Setter with a 1.5" surfacing tool

Elite Series (Masso & Redline) (Gen 1)
1

I am wanting to face an area of my workpiece to a thickness before I continuing on machining the rest of the piece. I would like to use my 1.5” dia. surfacing tool but when it touches off the carbide tips are outside the tool setters cover. This makes it think that the tool is shorter than it really is. I will be making a few of these so I’m wondering if there is a way to make this work, a larger diameter tool setter cover?

I tried searching the forum and am surprised that no one has had this problem before. Thanks for your help, Duane

2

for the rarely done surfacing bit I would simply use the paper method to set Z zero.

1 Like
3

That’s what I do a disable the auto tool setter.

4

Thanks for the tips. I’m using Fusion 360 and the nc file has a couple of tool changes. Now I’ve got some questions on Fusion.

I have a few of these to make, I will need to reset z zero for each one I make. Do you think that making 2 nc files would be the way to go, 1 for the surfacing bit and another for the other for the tools? I’m not sure how to tell Fusion not to use the tool setter for the 1st file, and to make sure that it does use the tool setter for the 2nd?

Or maybe I should use a 1/2” bit instead and let it run a while longer? I’m fairly new to CAM, any help on this is appreciated.

5

label the surfacing bit as tool #5 which is a manual tool change. it will then ask you to change it manually and then when it goes to the next tool it will ask you to unload tool #five and go pick up the next tool automatically. no problem.

1 Like