TITAN FUNDAMENTALS: Setting Tool Height Offsets Manually

Stuart teaches you how to set your tool height offsets manually.

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[kzinty]

Excellent that how I do it but with gauge blocks instead. It would be helpful if you showed rotating the tool by hand and checking all cutter edges. Very few are exactly the same and you need to find the lowest cutting edge. This is the runout to the cutting plane of the tool itself. I have seen as much as .014" on a face mill.

[suhaidiKTP]

I'm really enjoy your video, make make easy to understand...

[chicoxiba]

nicely presented man.. thats effort right there. good kid

[CincyPlasmaTech]

I measure my tool offsets with a Blum laser. To get the stock offset, I use a 3x optic and touch off the stock in increments of 0.010 mm. Sometimes I will rotate the tool with my finger, if it clears the Sharpie marker, then I am within -0.001 mm to -0.009 mm. Last, I face 0.040 mm to 0.100 mm off the top, and call that new offset the top of the stock. Now I should be within 0.001 mm.

[AmericanMakerCNC]

I'm enjoying your CNC Mill Fundamentals series. I'm just getting started and I have a newbie question. Why measure first with the puck then update the offsets? Why not just measure off the 1-2-3 block? It seems like an extra step, but I'm sure there's a good reason you do that and it would be nice to understand why. Thanks!

[adam]

The easiest way to manually input tool offsets would be to use a pre setter, a relatively in expensive piece of equipment and easy to get hold of, or even a height gauge and a couple of blocks, i would only use this technique if I had no choice

[lukewilliamson]

Can you show how to set tool heights with a probe and a height gauge indicator?

[therussianmachinists]

Great video! What's your opinion on subtacting the whole g54 .250 instead of every tool? Are there any minuses for this? Thanks

[alejandrojc]

Great video. Do you purchase or make your 1/4 inch pucks? If you purchase them, where?

[gtcollection]

Young man, we say "We are ready to make some chips", not "cut" some chips. Titan nut gonna be happy if you re-cut da chips ;)
Good vid, thanks!

[Adrenalin_Gaming]

I use a datum tool something like a spot drill that is set to zero in the tool offsets then i use a piece of paper to set all the other tools according to datum tool. paper is 0.05mm so i bring the tool untill i feel it touch the paper then move the tool down 0.05mm and set the z
but i think using this method could be more accurate

[shanescharer]

I have a new 1 2 3 block ...that i had quality control check....easier to use just the 1 inch.

[car]

Why you're doing it by moving the spindle up and not down? I was thinking that while machining the movement is down towards stock and measuring that way will eliminate whatever backlash or flex in the machine might be.

[Factory]

This could be a commercial for Renishaw and Blum. Manually touching off tools is MORE expensive than the common electronic tool and work probes.

[TheMudfly]

How accurate can this be for your average joe?

[mikec]

Hmmmm. I guess that is assuming all of your inserts are all seated properly, your shell mill is exactly square to that plain. And the seats are exactly the

[makerspace]

What was the point of adding the -0.250? If you used the same method with every tool, as you should, the .250 would make no difference.

[Factory]

I trust no-one that wears a hat backward. :-)

[GaloVaz]

I have a question about the American measurement system, since Brazil uses the metric system, and in the US it uses English! Do machines convert measurement systems?

[bigbigtrip]

Why would you teach anyone to do it this way? Wouldn't it make more sense to pick up each tool to the table?