Official GSK Agents in South Africa
Tel: +27 11 626 2720, [email protected]
Chapter 7 Tool Offset & Setting
287
Ⅱ
Operation
CHAPTER 7 TOOL OFFSET AND SETTING
The actual location of tool can be overlooked in programming for simplifying programming. Three
methods including positioning tool-setting, trial tool-setting and machine zero tool-setting are
available in this GSK980TDi system. The tool offset data are obtained from this tool-setting operation.
7.1 Tool Positioning Setting
Steps:
x
Z
X
Z
Fig. A Fig. B
1. Firstly determine if the offset values are zero in X, Z, if not, clear all the tool number offset
values;
2. Set the offset No. for 00 (i.e. T0100,T0300), as for the offset value: (method: execute a move
code or perform the machine zero return in T0100 state, then clear the offset value
automatically as returning to the machine zero);
3. Select a tool by random (usually the 1
st
tool, this tool will be used as the reference tool);
4. Position the tool nose of the reference tool to a point (tool-setting point), as shown in Fig. A;
5. In PRG STATE page of the MDI mode, set up the workpiece coordinate system by the
command G50 X__ Z__;
6. Clear the relative coordinate (U, W), see details in APPENDIX;
7. After the tool is moved to a safety height, select another tool and move it to the setting point,
as shown in Fig. B;
8. Press
key and move the cursor by
,
key to select the corresponding offset
number of that tool;
9. Press
address
key
, then press
key to input the tool offset value of X axis into the
corresponding offset number;
10. Press address key
, then press
key to input the tool offset value of Z axis into the
corresponding offset number;
11. Repeat the steps from 7 to 10 to perform the tool-setting operation for other tools.
