Quote Originally Posted by SPIKE View Post
T thanks again Clive I hope i dont get to be a pain with this. where you see thhe burn mark on the wood im bringing z to within a paper thickness for my zero i dont quite understand about touch off and the -ve when going down sorry i am disabled on alot of meds which causes me very bad memory so i have to wright alot down, my x is along the length of the material and y is the width, sometimes though it seems as if the z axis travels too far because when it lifts out of the wood it trvels almost to the top of its wall.
Kind regards. Colin
Colin
I am not familiar with your controller. Touch off means that you jog down to the top of the part and then press the touch off button this should then set the DRO (readout) to zero.

Does the controller have a DRO . Can you post a picture of the controller?

Perhaps somebody can chime in to help