Help please! Need a hybrid wcs

[wbtuttle]

Hello everyone!

I'm currently making a part and have finished the first op. I flip the part over and create a new setup. Because the stock is rough, I pick up a through-hole with Selected Point. That gives  me the x and y that I need, but the z is at model top. I need z to be at stock top. How can I offset z? I need a hybrid of selected point and stock point. I realize I can create an offset plane to the exact stock height and then project the center of the hole, but is there not a simpler way?

Thanks

[seth.madore]

Nope, what you described is the only way, sorry

[wbtuttle]

Thanks Seth

I run into this scenario quite a bit. Any idea if there's a plan to implement individual axis offsets in the wcs? It would be super useful as my stock is rarely an exact machined size.

Thanks

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

I'm curious why your WCS is on the model top?

Why not place it on the bottom where you can touch off on your parallels or softjaws?

[wbtuttle]

Thats what I actually ended up doing. I probed z off of a parallel. In my mind I guess it just made sense to measure the remaining stock and probe the top

Thanks

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

People seem to do that a lot. And I'm curious to why, as to me I want to put the WCS on a known place, meaning it's going to be a place that has been machined in a previous setup. I rather have the tiny bit of error from the part lifting of the parallel ever so slightly than to have the error from measuring the uneven stock. And hope for the best. If you would face than measure than set the offset from there I would get it a little more. But seems like a lot of work in the CNC workflow.

[wbtuttle]

Yes I was going to face flat then measure. But I get what you're saying. Its an extra step,, which is what im trying to avoid here. Had I been using softjaws I would have probed them instead. Still trying to find my workflow with this software

Thanks