Hi,
I have planned to have 'automated' Tool Length measurement using following method.

1. Spindle probe to touch of Z 0 (Renishaw MP10 with optical transfer to receiver/interface)
2. Move to Tool Height measuring probe (Renishaw TS-27R to interface)
3. Touch off and calculate the length for that probe as a reference toll for the job at hand.
4. Move to Tool change position = change tool
5. Move back to TH probe and touch of + calculate tool lenght. Now we should know where the tool tip is versus Zero on the work piece.
6. Do some milling
7. Move to tool change position = change tool
8. Move to TH probe and touch of + calculate tool length
9. Do some milling

etc...

Position of TH probe may wary depending on job at hand but on same spot during the job, magnetically fixed.


Is this something that can be done with some smart coding inside KFlop or does it have to be VB within Mach3?

Cheers
Bengt