Owner's manual

Coordinate System Offsets
Chapter 11
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There are 4 m ethods used to change the value of an external offset in the
work coordinate system table. Three methods can be found in the
following sections:
Manually alter the external offset value in the work coordinate system
table as described in section 3.3.1.
Alter the paramacro system parameter values 5201 - 5206 as discussed
in chapter 28.
Alter through some external means defined by the system installer’s
PAL program (refer to your PAL reference manual).
The fourth method, and the one discussed in this section, alters the external
system table through G10 programming. Changing these values in the
table using any of these methods does not cause axis motion; however, it
does immediately shift the active coordinate system by the amount entered.
The values entered into the external offset are added to the work coordinate
system zero point values each time a work coordinate system is called.
The format for altering the external offset using G10 is as follows:
G10L2P0X__Y__Z__;
Where : Is :
L2
tellsthe control th atyou wantto alterthecoordinatesystemtables.
P0
designates the externaloffsetastheoffset toupdate.
X_Y_Z_
specifies the location ofthezero pointof the specified workcoordinate system
relativetomachine coordinate system.
When this block is executed, the control will immediately shift the
currently active work coordinate system by the new external offset amount.
Example 11.4 a nd Figure 11.9 illustrate how the work coordinate system is
shifted using G10.
11.3.1
Altering ExternalOffset
(G10L2)