Blum Z nano tool setter

[Rick46]

I'm used to using a Reinshaw TS27R probe to set my tool length offsets but currently running a new machine that has had to many young people trained on it when it was bought new and did not take good notes and these individuals are no longer with the company. My question is has anyone one on here any experience with this one in particular and if so how do you go about touching off large diameter face mills. it has a macro to run that touches off small diameter cutters that are less than one inch. in the macro it has a x and y value you can use to offset the center of the cutter to touch off larger cutters but it only gives you the result of one insert on an indexable cutter. I am use to the cutter spinning in revers thus getting the furthest point or highest point by touching off on all the inserts in the cutter. Is this just the way it works or is there something like a diameter offset I am missing on the input of the macro used to touch off the cutters. for example the diameter and length of the cutter in the macro so it know an approximate length to rapid to before the spindle starts rotating to get the highest point on the face mill. these not a lot of info on the web site unlike Reinshaws page..

 

http://www.blum-novotest.de/measuring-components/products/tactile-tool-setting/z-nano.html

 

thanks in advance.

[Joe788]

Just from the looks of it, I can say with 99% certainty that you can't spin the tool with that tool setter.

[djstedman]

Disregard.. totally misread the original post .. lol

[Rstewart]

On my Metrol height setter I just enter an X and Y value next to G332 in MDI if my tool is larger .75"

[Rick46]

On my Metrol height setter I just enter an X and Y value next to G332 in MDI if my tool is larger .75"

this is what I do as well but just concerns me if I have a tool with 5 indexable inserts in It am I touching off on the tallest one or the shortest one of the bunch. seems like with face mills there is always one insert that hangs out a couple thousandths more than the rest. my machine orients and locks the spindle when touching tools off so I have been breaking them down and rotating the tools so that they will touch off with the x or y offset in the same direction on every tool so as to take out the guessing game as much as possible as to which direction to offset it. this dosent work on face mills that are direct mounted to the tool body and not mounted in a collet or heat shrink holder.

[Rstewart]

this is what I do as well but just concerns me if I have a tool with 5 indexable inserts in It am I touching off on the tallest one or the shortest one of the bunch. seems like with face mills there is always one insert that hangs out a couple thousandths more than the rest. my machine orients and locks the spindle when touching tools off so I have been breaking them down and rotating the tools so that they will touch off with the x or y offset in the same direction on every tool so as to take out the guessing game as much as possible as to which direction to offset it. this dosent work on face mills that are direct mounted to the tool body and not mounted in a collet or heat shrink holder.

 

 Yeah I feel ya on setting the tallest insert.  I Just touch off the insert that is in the indexed position and add a thou or two.  Take a test cut and measure