within the zero dialog box, i can probe for the touchprobe hight, which will offset automatically by 25mm, or i can manually drive the tool down to the work surface, and set it to 0.
I would like to enter my own offset as the current value. every DRO on a lathe or mill can do that.
right now, i can enter the value, but it doesn’t carry outside the zero dialog box.
in addition to this, where is the touch probe height and XY offset saved, and can I edit the value? (reason, when I work on alu (or any other conductive material), i can just park the touchprobe anywhere, and probe directly on the work surface or XY reference surfaces)
Would be useful to understand the ‘you can just type the value there’. I have tried this, but the typed zero values didn’t appear to be recognised or used. Likely to be something I too am doing, or not doing… CM513
@fenrus That was what I was referring to: In the zero dialog, I can enter “0”, and it will become 0. If I enter a non-zero value (i.e. because I know the tool is right now xx mm up or down based on the surface or a reference plane), the value I enter is ignored. I think this is a bug, not a feature, and it would help to see it fixed, IMO
@neilferreri good to know that there is a gcode for it, but i think this should be a UI level thing, not a CLI level thing. as mentioned, my and any DRO (i.e. lathe or mill) has this as a very basic function, where you work off a set of known coordinates and do easy absolute or relative offsets.