Hot take: I was overcomplicating my tool offsets for years

I was setting my Z-offset for every single tool on our 2018 Haas VF-2 by touching off the part, then doing the math to add the tool length. A new guy at our shop in Dayton just showed me you can set your work offset Z at the top of the part and then touch off each tool to the actual fixture plate. It cut my setup time in half. How many of you are still doing it the long way?

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gonzalez.rowan5mo ago

Setting your work offset Z at the top of the part" is the way. I saw a video a while back calling the other method "stone age programming." It works, but why make it hard.

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tyler_hall95mo ago

Man, I used to set it at the machine table. That video convinced me too, way easier.

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allen.amy3mo ago

Hold on, is switching methods really gonna change your whole life that much?

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