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Hello, I would like to know if the tool station number found when you define a lathe tool is stored in a parameter that I could capture in my post? If so, could you please tell me which one it is? Regards
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Hey Guys, In the threading tool parameters tab at the bottom the compensation setting is greyed out, MC help file says that it's unavailable for threading tools. If you look a how its set, it's set to center. Who touches off their tool that way? Usually it's touched off from the front of the tool and the tip, every probe I've seen works this way. So we program the thread with the tool set to the default operator touches of the front and the tip, so the simulation in MC is not the same as what happening at the machine. We have to clip all our threads so I do this in MC the clip doesn't work out correct cause the tool was not set up to how MC has done it. Question #1 Is there a way to ungrey that field or get MC to use the front of the tool not the center? I can't create a custom tool for threading it still greys out that field I want to change. Question #2 Another issue is that you can only use threading tools to thread, we use a grooving to in a threading cycle to thread clip, so is the only way to do this in MC is to create a custome tool and thread with that? The only way that I can see to get it to work is to call all my threading tools a grooving tool so I can adjust the compensation setting. TIA Greg
