Southwestern Industries, Inc.
TRAK
EMX Knee Mill, Bed Mill & ProtoTRAK
EMX CNC Retrofit Safety, Programming, Operating & Care Manual
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When we program, we need to tell the ProtoTRAK EMX what the reference point is for the
numbers we put in. When your reference point is the 0,0 we call that an Absolute
Reference. That means that the number you put in is measured from 0,0. There is another
way to define a point and that is with Incremental dimensions.
Incremental dimensions are simply dimensions measured from the previous point.
Consider the print below. If we say the bottom left corner is absolute zero (ABS 0) then the
dimensions are absolute or incremental as shown.
Quiz 3
Absolute Zero at Point A.