My current Haas mini mill does not have a tool setter or probe.
I am manually checking both my tool lengths and my stock off my table height on the machine, and that has always worked well for me.
I recently purchased a Haas DM-2 that does have a wireless probe and tool setter, so my plan was to stick with my normal measuring whereby everything is measured off the table height.
This is a used machine, so the previous owner had the measuring set up different than what I am use .
Question:
Am I making a mistake by measuring off the table on the machine that has the tool setter.
My plan was to change the settings on the tool setter to change the calculations that it goes through after it touches off the tool. ( not sure how to do that yet, but I'm guessing it would involve some changes to the code in the macro? )
I just thought it would make sense to stick with a consistent way of measuring both the tools and the stock to avoid mistakes in my CAM workflow
Thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated...
Thanks,
Kent