Hi,
I've been searching the forum for an answer, but since I don't really know exactly what I'm looking for I've not had much luck.
(Using the latest Mach3)
I've been doing manual tool changes on my router. They've been working out OK, but the process is *really* manual and I wondered if there were G-code instructions that could speed things up.
My tool paths are from 0,0 - but quite often I have a large panel of material and reset the origin to a vacant portion before starting to cut. I also have an X/Y home sensor set to the "true" 0,0 location of the table.
1) So I cue up my tool path, write down where the new origin is, reset to zero and begin to cut.
2) Once complete, I do a tool change, re-home the gantry then issue manual G-Code to move to the position of my 'new' origin defined in (1) and start cutting the next path..
3) so on and so on.
Is there a G-Code instruction that could automate any of this? Like "find home, and reset to zero"? This would speed things up a bit.
Better still:
1) store current location,
2) zero,
3) cut,
4 pause <tool change>
5) find home,
6) reset to zero
7) goto location stored in (1)
8) zero
I don't know if there's any provision for storing/recalling reference points in G-Code - anyone know if it can be done?
Steve