[STEPHENPRESCOTT]

Hi all. just wondering if there is a way to gradually lower the Z height around 10 times, as i like to cut my work into sections and over lap them by a certain amount...it would be better if it was possible to increase the z amount to provide an even better blending of the surface, hope you understand what i am getting at ??? for instance at the end of each z cut manually insert a command to add an amount to the z setting
Thanks ...stevep

[Jim Dawson]

You should be able to do this in the CAM program by setting the depth of cut. Or maybe I'm not understanding what you want to do.

[STEPHENPRESCOTT]

Hi Jim, what I am looking for is to step down the Z heights during the overlapping paths of the model to blend out any slight errors in height of the z paths caused by stopping
and starting the feed the next day

[ger21]

You can just type a new Z value in the DRO.
For example, do an MDI move to Z1.
Then type 1.005 in the Z axis DRO, and it will then cut .005 deeper.

[CitizenOfDreams]

You can just type a new Z value in the DRO.
For example, do an MDI move to Z1.
Then type 1.005 in the Z axis DRO, and it will then cut .005 deeper.

I made special buttons in my Mach3 screen just for that - "Raise Z 0.01mm" and "Drop Z 0.01mm". Helps a lot when you need to tweak your Z height (engraving, isolating PCB traces etc.)

Although I'm not sure if that's what the OP had in mind.