This guide is for your general reference when you start machining on your own. This is not a comprehensive guide and there will be details not included, but may help if you get stuck.
Turning on the machine
Flip the switch on the back right
Twist the E-stop button to release it
Hit the physical reset button
Hit reset on the machine screen
Reference your axes, first Z, then X and Y (click ref next to each axis)
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Check your zero location and axis alignment in your cam
Put the probe into the spindle
change the tool number in the bottom right corner to 99
Click the probe tab
The simplest form of zeroing is 3 surface touch-off, where you tap in x, y and z.
Line up your probe to the side of the surface you want to tap in x, then click “Probe X” next to the picture that lines up with the direction you want the probe to go
Jog to in front or behind the surface you want to tap in y and click “Probe Y” that matches the orientation you wish to probe
Jog above the Z surface you wish to tap off and click “Probe Z”
There are more complicated options for other stock shapes and geometry that you will discover as you continue to machine
Your zero is now set, just remember to change the tool number back when you swap out the probe, so you don’t accidentally reset the probe length offset
Uploading your program
Select your job (or right in HSMWORKS, right click and then click post process. You
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