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002' deeper and may cut the areas that did not cut deep enough in the first pass. 002' deeper) and now if I re-run the same toolpath without doing any program toolpath editing it should cut. 798' position but I key into the Z axis DRO box.

800 and it is at this position simply key in G0Z.798 and hit the enter key) and the Z axis should move to the. After the machine has finished the toolpath and returned to the Home position, I can simply use an MDI command(MDI tab and key in the command in the text box on that screen) to lower the Z axis the required amount(for instance if the Z Home position is set at. I am not sure what controller software you are using but I use Mach3 and it is very easy to bring my Z axis down the amount I want to increase the depth of cut(say. 005' cut depth and it finishes with perhaps several areas not engraved deep enough to be legible a simple way to run that same toolpath again is to adjust the position of your Z axis. I was suggesting that say for instance you run an engraving toolpath at. If you don't feel comfortable yet with your controller at doing the second cut this way I would recommend that you simply go back to the Vectric software and load you file so that you can 'Edit' your toolpath and make the cut depth to the depth you need and generate another toolpath to use.īelow I have tried to explain one way of changing the Z zero setting in Mach3 but you should not use this method until you are comfortable with your machine controller and its options:

No, that is what I was trying to help you avoid.

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