Workpiece axes

In general, it makes a difference whether an axis lies on the tool or the workpiece side. For Volumetric Compensation, this distinction is made via the workpiece axes parameter. By default, this value is assigned the value 0 and so all axes lie in the tool.

Due to settings on the machine, an axis on the workpiece side may already be considered elsewhere, e.g. as a result of the vz_stellgr or vz_istw axis parameters. In this case, the axis lies in the tool – also for the measuring technician – and the axis should also lie in the tool for Volumetric Compensation, i.e. workpiece_axes should remain at 0.

Rule of thumb: if the measuring technician considers an axis to be on the tool side, the axis should also be treated as such when configuring Volumetric Compensation and vice versa.