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You could add the G28 code to your cnctch.mac file. The only potential down side to that is that the machine will move to the G28 position for every tool change as you run CNC programs. The lathe goes to the G28 position on every tool change when running a program. That ATC button just makes the tu...

When you say "tools that point forward", presumably you mean "away from the operator". And when you say boring bar "face away from the front", you mean the insert is pointing toward the operator. As you know, I had problems with lathe tool offsets. I forget the specifi...

The ATC button in the tool offsets tab will rotate the turret to the desired tool position on the tool turret. I need the ATC button to perform a G28 move before it rotates the turret otherwise my tools will crash into the lathe bed. How do i change the way it operates? Can anyone sugest how i can c...

I have been using my touch probe to set up my lathe which has a turret and is rear mounted. When setting up the lathe tools using the touch probe I first set up tool number 1 and use the auto touch off to set the Z ref and the X ref in the tool offset page. Lathe tools When setting up tools that fac...

cnckeith wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:58 pm click on F5 export library in the tool library and you get a nice .txt file of the lathe tool library.

export lib.png

esport lathe tool.png

Just realised when it saves the file it displays the radius figures for the X

Why doesn't the report save it like it is on the screen? So as you can print out a copy of the correct figures.

cnckeith wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 3:36 pm you are just trying to change the label on the button correct? if so edit the 'working' .svg to your liking. no need to edit the skin.

Shouldn't the software put the A axis buttons on the control as standard if it has a tool turret?

dpascucci_support wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:21 am I believe after you make any changes to the tool library, you must save (F10) before exporting, otherwise it will save what was in the tool library before the latest changes were made.

Yes i always save the tool file after every tool probe

I couldn't find this information in the lathe manual. To set up a drill in the lathe tool offsets page using auto tool touch off with a probe. You have to set the X axis ref to the diameter of your probe plus the diameter of your drill that you are setting up. Then you have to set the probe to appro...

Centroid V5.08 I have been saving the lathe offsets file from the tool offset page. Using export tool offsets button. The file that it saves is not the same as the tool offsets on the screen. It seems to export an older version of the tool offsets file. See photo and file attached. Look at tool 2 an...