What is adding .05 to your tool offset? Are your tool offsets changing buy .05 every time you hit the cycle start button?
Brett
To be honest with you I wish I knew.
I know that my parts are coming out .05 to short and when I check to verify that my tool offsets are correct they appear to be .05 to short.
I use a .375 dowel to roll under my tools when I am setting them up on the offsets page. You can select any tool number that you like, put that tool in the spindle and touch off on the dowel and your pogram coordinates for that tool should be .375. And when it was taking .05 off the part and I would check it the program coordinates would be .425. I thought .05 was kind of odd being that it was such a round number.
Okay guys. Just got back from Office Depot. I purchased a new keyboard and a surge protector. We had an issue one time where you try to click on an icon and it would highlight about half of the icons on the desktop. We found some debris under some of the keys. We blew the keyboard out and haven't had this problem since but I was thinking maybe the keyboard had some debris under it causing these tool offset problems. I've also noticed that when I switch the coolant pump from auto to on this problem would occur from time to time. So I get back with my new stuff, set the machine up again and run the program with no tools then I put a tool in the spindle, selected that tool number and brought it down to the part and checked to see if the offset height was still incorrect. It was off by .031 this time.
I normally use a .375 dowel to roll under my tools to set them up. I put this number in my touch correction on the offsets page and turn it on.
I've been setting up tools this way for seven or eight months and everything works fine. Then all of a sudden this thing has a mind of its own. If you guys could think of anything that I could do to cure this, please let me know.
Thanks for your time!
Chris