Tools and Coordinate Systems

Tool Change

A tool change QPushButton, with a QComboBox to select the tool number to change to, is done with QPushButton named tool_change_pb and a QComboBox named tool_change_cb. The tool change combobox will automatically be populated with all the tools found in the tool table.

Tool Change                  tool_change_pb
Tools Combo Box              tool_change_cb

Tool Change Button

Tool change QPushButtons can be used to change tools without a spinbox by adding up to 99 QPushButtons named tool_change_pb_n. With n being the number of the tool you wish to change to using that button

Tool Change Button                  tool_change_pb_n

Tool Touchoff

To touch-off a tool to an axis, use a tool-touch-off pushbutton

Tool Touch Off               tool_touchoff_(axis letter)

Coordinate System Touchoff

To touch-off an axis, use a QPushButton and QLineEdit to set the touch-off value

Touch Off Controls

Function	Widget	Object Name
Touch Off Axis	QPushButton	touchoff_pb_(axis letter)
Touch Off Value	QLineEdit	touchoff_le

Change Coordinate System

To change the coordinate system via a button, use a change_cs_`n` pushbutton where n is 1-9 for G54 through G59.3

Change Coordinate System            change_cs_n