Good morning everyone:
Not to derail this thread completely, but I set up my parts so wherever my wire touches, that is what I call program zero.
I run MasterCam and I just lay out my block, put a 0.0098" diameter circle where I intend to touch, and then shift the part in MasterCam until the center of the 0.0098"circle is over the origin.
Now I can touch the block with confidence and just zero out the control.
I don't have to remember to mentally add or subtract anything, I don't have to screw around with offsets...I just touch the block, zero out the control and go.
If, for any reason I need to re-touch it's a simple process.
I never have to remember anything, I never have to calculate anything and I never have to allow for anything (good for old farts like me with failing memories).
I program with offsets in the control unless I have geometry that bowties when I run it with offsets...typically small steps in the geometry that are less than one wire radius high.
In that case I just draw an offset path in MasterCam, and program to the centerline of the wire plus the overburn...that seems to be what Plastikdreams is describing, and it's an effective way to get exactly what you've drawn when the control is goofing up on offset calculations.
I've had others hop up and down shrieking that I'm doing it all wrong...never never NEVER move the part in MasterCam they say...it's a SIN.
That's just bullshit...my parts are just as good as anybody else's parts and my life is simple.
I still make fuckups, but I don't make those kind of fuckups that come from subtracting the wire radius instead of adding the wire radius.
I contend you can do it as you prefer, so long as your way doesn't make fuckups.
Back to the OP's question...so does the Mits control actually have an edge touch routine that has a wire cut as part of it, as toolmaker96 speculates in post #5?
That would piss me off royally if I got a wire cut at the end of every wire touch.
I rarely want that...in fact I cannot think of a time when I would EVER want that.
So I'm still guessing the post the OP's using puts a wire cut at the program start by default.
I'd just get rid of it in the post, along with that G92 command that is so annoying to me.
Cheers
Marcus
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