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Just realized I've been manually touching off tools for a decade but our new machine with a laser setter has me questioning everything.
I used to swear by the old-school method of feeling the paper drag on every tool, but after running a job with 14 different tools on our new Haas last month, the laser saved me over an hour and a half of setup time, so is the 'feel' method just stubborn tradition now or is there still a real benefit to doing it by hand?
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ryan_black6mo ago
Our shop foreman still makes us touch off the first tool manually.
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jake_anderson246mo ago
Ever try just setting a permanent work offset for your most common tool, @ryan_black? We did that for a standard face mill. It's not perfect, but it saves the argument every morning.
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norag556mo ago
Our old mill still has my first offset from 2018.
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