Re: Setting up end mills for CNC, and other things.

Marcus,

Excellent post.

Thank you.

Ballendo

P.S. I would not recommend using the "offset from the shortest tool"
approach that Jon E uses. The previous post about using a long tool
so that mistakes cut air is on the money, IMO...

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Marcus & Eva" <implmex@a...> wrote:
> Hi All:
> I've been following the tool length offset discussion with
interest.
> Here are my rules of procedure, for what they're worth:
>
> 1) I always set the top of the stock to be Z0 <snip>