Question Re: Work Offsets

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Tom Benedict <benedict@h...>
wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Fred Smith wrote:
>
> > --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "inetd_conf"

<benedict@h...>

> Instead what was happening was it was plunging
> straight into the work while moving to what it thought was (0,0,0),

even

> though I'd set (0,0,0) to be the current position. It's like it

totally

> ignored the offsets I'd given it, and tried to drive the tool down

to the

> mill table (the absolute coordinate's z=0 position)
>

Which is the mistake that I am trying to point out to you. Your
absolute z=0 should be at the maximum raised Z position NOT somewhere
inside your vise.

Fred Smith - IMService