ACU-RITE MILLPWR 3 Axes - Manual (Page 186)

SETUP
MILLPWR ®
• Remove any tool from the spindle.
• From the DRO screen, press the TOOL key.
• Enter zero for the diameter and zero for the tool length.
• Press GO .
• An Operator intervention message will appear asking you to “use” the entered tool.
• Press GO again.
• MILLPWR is now set with a zero tool length offset.
• Press the DATUM softkey.
• Touch the spindle nose to a solid surface such as the top of a vice or your workpiece.
• Press the Z=0 softkey, then the USE key.
Datum zero for the Z-axis is now set to the surface that the spindle nose touched. Use this same loca-
tion to “teach” each tool length in the tool library.
• Press the SETUP key and highlight “tool library.”
• Press ENTER .
• Highlight the tool number in the tool library list, for the tool you are setting up and press
ENTER .
• Use the numeric keypad to enter the tool’s diameter.
• Highlight the “unit” field. If the diameter you entered is metric, press the MM softkey.
• Highlight the length field.
• Place this tool into the spindle and touch its tip to the same surface you used to set the
Z-axis datum Zero.
• Press the TEACH TOOL LENGTH softkey. The length offset for this tool will appear in the
length field.
• Highlight the “Type” field.
• Press the TOOL TYPES softkey.
• Highlight the type of your tool from the list of available tool types and press ENTER .
• Press USE .
• Repeat this procedure for all additional tools then, press USE NEW SETTINGS to com-
plete the setup.
After the tool information is established in the library, you can edit the values as needed to complete
the setup.
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