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look at your adapter setting:

https://centroidcncforum.com/viewtopic. ... lex#p69604

Uwe

...... My guess is your Z axis is slipping down when power is removed, and Acorn has no clue about this. My guess is hard stop of Z is 0.375" above the home sensor and after e-stop the gas struts are pushing to the hard stop. After releasing e-stop Acorn gets this new Z 0 position. If the sens...

Who had thought you consider a tool change is a emergency situation

Uwe

I prefer to write macros and call them with G65.

Example is here:

https://centroidcncforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=7870

Uwe

Hi Izabelle,

this is not sufficient information to help you.

Pls read : https://centroidcncforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=1043

Uwe

The subprogramm# must be in the range O9100 - O9999.cnc to be called with M98

13.27 in the Mill Manual.

Uwe

Short macro for milling Diamond Knurls



Uwe

Sure this works, Z-axis is following the pulses from the encoder.

You can add a time delay in M3/4 macros, or code to make sure the spindle speed is 0.

Uwe

....... One question. Every time I perform a tool change with my power drawbar, as the drawbar is activated, a relay breaks the E-Stop circuit for safety. Could this be causing a problem? .....- Thanks... Richard Yes it does. It is recommended to re-home after E-Stop. If you are concerned about saf...

New Version, tested for 2 live tools axial, radial and front/rear approach and turning. Works for gang tooling also, makes long vectors, short files. Nxxxx blocks are only written for tool changes to use easy search/run on Acorn. File size for this part with engraving now is unter 4000 lines (starte...