Hi, I have been teaching myself how to use a friends VF3 and have some questions about tool diameter offsets.

I was doing a test piece for a bearing seat. I am using the tool probe to set the length and diameter and this seems to be working because things are turning out exactly as designed. Now my question is how can I fudge the tool offset by .0005 to give me a little room for the bearing.

I have tried to add and subtract up to .004 from the diameter of the measured value with no difference in the cut. I have also tried the same with the wear and still can't get it to fine tune my hole.

Now I understand that I should just program it a little bigger but some times it is not as easy as just bumping the tool diameter a smige and re running the hole for a smooth fit.

Any suggestions?

thanks,

Chad