Quote Originally Posted by fomaz View Post
It would be informing the machine that: You now have a piece of 3" length that is available for machining..
I think the only way is to place "VZSHZ=3" in one of the first lines of the program OR place "VZSHZ=V1" in one of the first lines of every program and input the zero shift amount from the chuck to the face in "user variable" or "common Variable" (dont know the preciese name of the page) nr 1 (if nr 1 is used for something else use another nr).
If your client gets used to programming the VZSHZ=V1 in every program the only thing to input is variable one, only problem is then that this zero shift amount isn't automaticly entered in MDI mode.You would have to (I think) manualy typt VZSHZ=V1 before any other MDI command