User manual

WinPC-NC Economy Parameter settings
Compensation
of various tool
lengths
Working with different tools it usually does not happen that all tools
are of the same length. Therefore it is considerably difficult to
determine and observe the exact plunge depth.
WinPC-NC is able to measure the various lengths of tools
automatically and compensate them during operation.
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Paramaters for tool length measurement are only available if the
function is enabled.
Z-axis length
The lengths of the tools used are defined here. Normally, the boxes
cannot be edited, however, the values are registered automatically
when the tools are measured. The length difference used by the
compensation function is calculated on the basis of these parameter
values.
Sensor position
Automatic
ascertainmemt
of length
The length sensor must be a switch or a button which can be moved
from above and is switched when contact is made or is encountered.
These paramaters define a position above this sensor in absolute
machine coordinates. When measuring, WinPC-NC moves to this
positions and then lowers the tool slowly until the sensor is switched.
The distance moved is adopted in the paramaters as tool length.
The slow manual speed for Z-axis is used while measuring.
Diagram showing the basic principle of the length sensor and automatic tool measurement
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