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thanks for the wakeup dave...its been a while since i looked at the manual...as soon as i looked at the section it all came back... to be honest the NC toolsetter i was using was giving me great results...variations in tool height measurements of +-.0002.... i can live with it... i will put it back ...

i have the touch probe setup on one channel of course..and working properly.... right now when i activate the probe the toolsetter light comes on as well....

can i set the tool setter to a separate input so the toolsetter is separate from the touchprobe..

hello dave ... i have a new problem that is not msm related but im hoping you can help... i just got a new probe but i cant get it to work... i keep getting probing error.. the funny thing is that if i remove it from the spindle i can trip it by hand and its fine... i have tried switching to active ...

no prob dave... looks like its all ironed out..im hoping..
thanks for clarifying

im sorry i told you wrong ... my settings are soft max 0 soft min -12 slow zone .5 tcp -1 i may have put in a pos value in the tcp im sure... i just ran a post with 16 tool changes in it... ran it 8 times ... and did not get the z warning once... hoping its fixed... i cant see any settings being out...

it seems like i have it right by that description my home switch is at the top of the Z soft min = 0 soft max = -12 slow zone = .75 reverse home = X tcp pos = .5 when you said the the slow zone has to cover the tcp//that meant the tcp has to be inside of the .75 slow zone correct.. it looks like its...

i changed the post processor settings to exclude the m1 stop...all good unfortunately im still getting the sofdt limit warning ..my settings are as follows,..i have a feeling something is wrong with them settings are as follows theh TCP z setting is .75 soft limit slow zone is -.5 z min is 0 and zma...

you were absolutely right sir... i need to read and become more acquainted with code...
as soon as i hit the m1 stop button it went perfect...
so now she runs perfectly..
thank you again for the help.and the awesome work..

i suspect you are correct about the post ... im using autodesk inventorhsm for the post processor, i have selected generic mach3 mill on the following post.... for the first tool change /// facemill ...the tool change does not require an extra cycle start but for the second op..the centerdrill ... i...

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