Tool offsets   
7.4  Online tool offset (PUTFTOCF, FCTDEF, PUTFTOC, FTOCON, FTOCOF) 
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7.4  Online tool offset (PUTFTOCF, FCTDEF, PUTFTOC, FTOCON, 
FTOCOF)
 
Function  
When the "Online tool offset" function is active, a tool length offset resulting from the 
machining is applied immediately on grinding tools. 
An application example is CD dressing, where the grinding wheel is dressed in parallel to 
machining. 
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The tool length offset can be changed from the machining channel or a parallel channel 
(dresser channel). 
The online tool offset is written using various functions dependent on the timing of the 
dressing process: 
●  Continuous write, non-modal (
PUTFTOCF) 
With 
PUTFTOCF, dressing is carried out at the same time as machining. 
The tool offset is changed continuously in the machining channel according to a 
polynomial function of the first, second or third order, which must have been defined 
previously with 
FCTDEF. 
PUTFTOCF is always non-modal; in other words, it takes effect in the subsequent traversing 
block. 
●  Continuous write, modal: 
ID=1 DO FTOC (see "Online tool offset (FTOC) (Page 589)") 
●  Discrete write (
PUTFTOC) 
With 
PUTFTOC, dressing is not carried out at the same time as machining from a parallel 
channel. The offset value specified with 
PUTFTOC takes effect immediately in the 
destination channel. 
 
 
Note 
Online tool offset can be applied only to grinding tools.