Let me start by saying that I am accustom to Fanuc contollers and HAAS controllers are greek to me.
The school I'm attending has just acquired a HAAS mini mill and lathe. At the machine shop I work at, we touch all tools for production jobs off of a 2-4-6 block.
I set this up by touching the spindle off of the 6" block, then setting the relative Z positon to zero.
I then touch the spindle off of the top of the part and set my G54 (or other location) Z offset to zero.
I have talked to my instructor about this idea and he is very interested in doing it because of the multiple programs that this machine is setup to run.
Well I attemped to do this for him and I am completely stumped on how to set the relative Z to zero. From what I understand the "work position" is the same as a relative which is what is read to determine the Z location in a program.
I have jogged the spindle down to the top of a 6" block and I can not figure out for the life of me how to set this Z postion to zero. Can anyone point me in the right direction?