{"id":483,"date":"2026-08-03T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki2\/?p=483"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:51:13","slug":"probing-tool-length-cnc-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/cnc-machining\/axyz-cnc-router\/machine-operation-axyz-cnc-router\/483\/probing-tool-length-cnc-router\/","title":{"rendered":"Probing Tool Length (CNC Router)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Probing an individual tool length automatically<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Turn on the machine. Warm up the spindle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the machine was idle for more than 1 or 2 hours, warm up the spindle again.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remove the cover from the tool probe.<br><em>Warning: Damage to the machine or tool can occur if the tool probe cover is not removed before probing. <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clear the safety mat. Turn the <strong>SAFETY RESET<\/strong> key.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Type <strong>F 25.<em>n<\/em><\/strong> and press <strong>ENTER<\/strong>. In this command,<em><strong> n<\/strong><\/em> is the number of the tool pocket that you want to probe. For example, type F 25.1 to probe tool 1. Type F 25.2 to probe tool 2.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The machine picks up the tool as necessary and moves to the tool probe location. Press <strong>ENTER <\/strong>to start the probing cycle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the correct tool is now in the spindle, the machine moves directly to the probe location.<br><em>Note: If the tool is not correct, the machine will change the tool, or the machine will ask you to remove the current tool before it continues<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When the probing cycle is complete, the machine returns to the position that it was in before the process started.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Probing all tools in the ATC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Turn on the machine. Warm up the spindle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the machine was idle for more than 1 or 2 hours, warm up the spindle again.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remove the cover from the tool probe.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clear the safety mat. Turn the <strong>SAFETY RESET<\/strong> key.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Type<strong> F 26 <\/strong>and press <strong>ENTER<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The machine now moves through all the tools one after another and probes each tool. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probing an individual tool length automatically Probing all tools in the ATC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[153,15,175,96,150,174],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machine-operation-axyz-cnc-router","tag-axyz","tag-cnc","tag-length","tag-probing","tag-router","tag-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}