Tool Setter for CNC Mills

myke24 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:28:51 +0000

Though many people are shocked by the cost of Tool Persetters it is one of the most cost effective tools that compliments the setup of CNC mills.

Tool Offset in Haas Vertical Mills

myke24 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:07:38 +0000

To prevent tool crashes the Setting 64 in the Haas Mill control is your friend.

Those of you who are Haas users and do setups on vertical mills are familiar with the Tool Offset method that is outlined in the user manual. This entail loading a tool (drill, end mill, …) into the spindle and bringing the tip of the tool down to the surface of the part and pressing the Tool Offset Measure button.

This operation loads a negative number in to the tool offset page. The reason that the tool length in the tool offset page is a negitive number is that Setting 64 is set to OFF. This negative number is the distance from the Z-axis Home position to the current position of the spindle head.

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Tool Setter for CNC Mills

Tool Offset in Haas Vertical Mills