Setup, Operation manual – ACU-RITE MILLPWR 3 Axes User Manual
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SETUP
MILLPWR
®
•
Remove any tool from the spindle.
•
From the DRO screen, press the
TOOL
key.
•
Enter zero for the diameter and zero for the tool length.
•
Press
GO
.
•
An Operator intervention message will appear asking you to “use” the entered tool.
•
Press
GO
again.
•
MILLPWR
is now set with a zero tool length offset.
•
Press the
DATUM
softkey.
•
Touch the spindle nose to a solid surface such as the top of a vice or your workpiece.
•
Press the
Z=0
softkey, then the
USE
key.
Datum zero for the Z-axis is now set to the surface that the spindle nose touched. Use this same loca-
tion to “teach” each tool length in the tool library.
•
Press the
SETUP
key and highlight “tool library.”
•
Press
ENTER
.
•
Highlight the tool number in the tool library list, for the tool you are setting up and press
ENTER
.
•
Use the numeric keypad to enter the tool’s diameter.
•
Highlight the “unit” field. If the diameter you entered is metric, press the
MM
softkey.
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Highlight the length field.
•
Place this tool into the spindle and touch its tip to the same surface you used to set the
Z-axis datum Zero.
•
Press the
TEACH TOOL LENGTH
softkey. The length offset for this tool will appear in the
length field.
•
Highlight the “Type” field.
•
Press the
TOOL TYPES
softkey.
•
Highlight the type of your tool from the list of available tool types and press
ENTER
.
•
Press
USE
.
•
Repeat this procedure for all additional tools then, press
USE NEW SETTINGS
to com-
plete the setup.
After the tool information is established in the library, you can edit the values as needed to complete
the setup.
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