mrvinton
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2010
- Location
- Seattle WA
I have both a VF-5 and a VM-3 with the latest version of the operating system.
Both machines have electronic tool setters which work great. My question is does anyone know how to get the z axis display to display the tool tip relative to part Z zero when manually calling up tools. I find it frustrating when I am doing quick a quick and dirty manual operation that I have not done a program for and it only gives the position relative to the spindle face even though the tool has already been set with the tool setter. I do not see why the machine is not smart enough to load the tool length when you manually call a tool from the carousal.
I know that I can MDI all the information in and call the tool or run a program and I will get the length right with the tool tip and part zero being right rather than the spindle face being relative to the part Z zero.
We sent the problem off to the Haas answer man and got no response. So we sent a request asking what happened to our request which caused Haas to notify our local dealer who's tech guy called us and was worthless. Said he has had this request before and Haas is going to do nothing about it. Its not a safety issue and a bunch of other BS!!
I know this can be fixed because I have done it on a Deckle VMC with a Heidenhain control and a Fanuc control by getting into to the the tool change macro and adding the the proper G and H code in the macro to call the tool length when you call the tool change.
Has anyone fixed this on there machine? Am I missing a setting some where that I do not know about.
Both machines have electronic tool setters which work great. My question is does anyone know how to get the z axis display to display the tool tip relative to part Z zero when manually calling up tools. I find it frustrating when I am doing quick a quick and dirty manual operation that I have not done a program for and it only gives the position relative to the spindle face even though the tool has already been set with the tool setter. I do not see why the machine is not smart enough to load the tool length when you manually call a tool from the carousal.
I know that I can MDI all the information in and call the tool or run a program and I will get the length right with the tool tip and part zero being right rather than the spindle face being relative to the part Z zero.
We sent the problem off to the Haas answer man and got no response. So we sent a request asking what happened to our request which caused Haas to notify our local dealer who's tech guy called us and was worthless. Said he has had this request before and Haas is going to do nothing about it. Its not a safety issue and a bunch of other BS!!
I know this can be fixed because I have done it on a Deckle VMC with a Heidenhain control and a Fanuc control by getting into to the the tool change macro and adding the the proper G and H code in the macro to call the tool length when you call the tool change.
Has anyone fixed this on there machine? Am I missing a setting some where that I do not know about.