For those of us with R8 tooling (or most any collet tooling) being able to adjust the 0 of the Z axis would be very beneficial. I don't see any way to do this in the documentation, and tool length offsets are too variable with collets. I'd like to put a simple touch off height block on the table at the toolchange location and zero each tool at the toolchange and continue to program.
Archived Feature Requests: #68
Agreed, with the addition that you should be able to jog any axis whilst paused. (lathe or Mill). It's impossible to replace a broken insert, or manually change and zero tools.
I interpret OP's feature request as asking for a way to set TLO after a toolchange, not specifically asking for jog-while-paused.
Setting TLO as part of a toolchange is possible in LinuxCNC 2.6 and later using remapping. See the sample config sim/axis/remap/manual-toolchange-with-tool-length-switch for an example.
I know people are using this technique to accomplish OP's desired functionality on real machines.
I just mentioned this because I saw the comment from Steve Balckmore
associated with this feature request.
Thanks
Rick
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Subject: [emc:feature-requests] #68 Z Jog while porgram paused for
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Archived Feature Requests: #68