I was running a stacked text program with a 1/8 end mill and my last tool was a 1/4 end mill around the perimeter of wood. I am using a Shapeoko Pro 5 with bit setter off. The machine stop to allow ww to change end mills but never gave me a chance to jog to reset the height of new end mill. When using standard Carbide I was always given a chance to reset Z axis. As long as the tool change box is up you can’t doing anything but press continue and when I pressed continue it went a milling with no established Z height. Is there a trick to allow me reset Z in the Pro version?
Are you using a machine which has a BitSetter or some other mechanism to handle a tool change?
What post-processor are you using?
Which version of Carbide Create?
I have Shapeoko 5 Pro CNC it came with Shapeoko 5 Pro CNC bit setter which Was Not enabled.
I use the post processer Shapeoko 5 Pro CNC.
I have not used the bit setter since purchasing the machine as i want to get the experience setting Z before moving on to more automation.
I was able to recover from the semi crash. Enclosed pic is my third cnc project.
You must enable the BitSetter for tool changes. Until it is enabled you will only be able to run one tool per file.
I didn’t have to do that in the free version of Carbide Create.
Is there a code you could insert to cause it to allow you to reset the Z height.
When I started with Carbide Create there was no BitSetter available. So when you created a tool path you saved each tool path separately and you ran each tool path separately. By running each tool path separately you can set zero for each new tool you use.
Fast forward to the V7 and they have combined all tool paths into the same file so you must use the BitSetter. However you can still run each tool path separately by creating your tool paths in the order you want them to run and then disable all but the first tool path and save the file. Then run the first tool path and go back into Carbide Create and disable the first tool path and enable the second tool path. Then save the c2d file and go and run that file with a single tool path. Then just repeat for all tool paths you created saving one tool path at a time. Then running that in Carbide Motion and you can manually set Z zero for each file.
As @WillAdams asked why? The BitSetter is part of the work flow and a very handy tool. Learning to set Z manually is pretty simple after doing it once or twice. Not much to learn after the first couple of times.
So if you turn off the BitSettter in the configuration you cannot save multiple tool paths in the same file when using the Shapeoko/Nomad post processor because they assume the BitSetter will be used.
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My design computer is too far from the machine so I do what you said, but save multiple versions of the same file and send them to the machine running CM all at once. All the versions have the same design and sometimes have the same tool paths but enabled/disabled as required.
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