HAAS newbie question on tool and offset designation. I have a few holders that let me put more than one tool at each station. The book is vague on this, but I did discover through experimentation today the following: First, the turret number in the offset table seems to be reference info only because it can be set to any number. I filled them out for good record keeping, but they have no impact on operations.
Instead, the turret station called is the one that was in the active position when the tool offsets were established. Calling a tool in a program follows the format T101, where the first part is the turret station, and the last part is the offset table (1 to 99), which is just the reverse order of the first two columns in the offset table. Again, the book is vague so this is entirely summarized from my hands on testing today. Does this logic match reality for other HAAS lathe operators out there? Is there anything else I need to know with respect to tool offsets for multiple tools on each station?
Instead, the turret station called is the one that was in the active position when the tool offsets were established. Calling a tool in a program follows the format T101, where the first part is the turret station, and the last part is the offset table (1 to 99), which is just the reverse order of the first two columns in the offset table. Again, the book is vague so this is entirely summarized from my hands on testing today. Does this logic match reality for other HAAS lathe operators out there? Is there anything else I need to know with respect to tool offsets for multiple tools on each station?
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