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    Quote Originally Posted by Boyan Silyavski View Post
    if you have a nice machine its better to have flat table and take and program Z level in CAM from table level. Not material level. As what you do when in the middle of program machining surface is spoiled and no way to zero again there????t
    Work Offsets allow you to have bed level as Machine Z-zero with the top of work as your Work Z-zero, that's what Work Offsets are for. ;-)

    The professional CNC machinists I've spoken to tend to use a top of part/stock Z zero,

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    Last edited by magicniner; 10-11-2016 at 06:35 PM. Reason: it's tend, not tent!
    You think that's too expensive? You're not a Model Engineer are you? :D
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