Digital Read Out. ABS and INC. What Does It Mean And How To Use IT ?
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- Опубліковано 21 січ 2023
- Here with the use of a fictitious drawing of mixed Imperial and Metric Dimensions, I show how to operate the DRO using both the INC and ABS functions.
Dear Dave, You gave me a link to this and it was very useful. I like your presentation and many thanks. I served an apprenticeship on the mill when it was all analogue and this is just what I needed to see. You are a diamond. God bless.
Glad it was helpful Andrew, there may be some other videos in my list that you may pick up some more tips from. Thanks for watching and enjoy. Regards.
Thx Dave ...didn't have a clue how to use ABS and INC but you have explained it the best i could find on You tube. Thx again
Glad to help Joos. Thanks for watching. Regards.
Thank you Dave .
I never knew what is the difference between ABS and INC but now make sense.
Glad it was of help to you. Thanks for watching. Regards.
Thank you Dave for a very clear explanation. It was clever to use Imperial for the ABS and metric for the INC.
The way that I have learned to differentiate between the two functions is to think of ABS as ALWAYS being the distance from the zero/zero HOME in the top left corner. If all fails and you get lost, ABS will always get you home.
INC then allows you to hop around the workpiece without disturbing that zero/zero point. Again, when in INC mode, if I get lost I press ABS and return to zero/zero safely. I take a breath and go and find where I need to be.
What it also demonstrates is that you need a good diagram with every location referenced either directly or indirectly from the zero/zero point.
Thank you for sharing. 👏👏👍😀
Hello Andrew, pleased it was of use / interest. Thee are so many other YT videos that poorly explain the use of ABS and INC that I decided to make this video. Thanks for the view. Regards.
Very well demonstrated Dave, I take this stuff for granted but I think there will many people who will find this very useful. You picked a great example part to help demonstrate the different functions of the DRO. Cheers, Jon
Thanks for watching Jon. Yes I thought that there would be many out there new to DRO's that would not understand the difference between INC and ABS. I only understood it since I left work 20 odd Year's ago.. We had DRO's but I only ever used it in ABS mode. Regards.
Thank you for doing this. it's been a help for a hobbyist. Model engineering has been improved with ability to get DRO's etc at bargain prices and as I grow older the dials and thimbles on the mic's just become harder to read.
in many respects I wished I had got a 3 axis read out for the mill which is one of them round column jobs.
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Thanks for watching. I am so glad that is has helped you, so many people do not understand the difference between Absolute and Incremental readings. DRO is the way to go to also take the worry out of backlash when doing accurate table movements. Thanks again for the Sub. Regards.
Hi Dave very good explanation of the DRO functions the first step is always setting your 0 point I have been caught out by this a few times. Cheers
Glad it was helpful Randy. Thanks for the view. Best Wishes.
Hello Dave,
Nicely explained, thank you... I am sure it will help many in the years to come.
Take care.
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I hope so too. Thanks for the view. Regards.
Nice demo Dave - great explanation.
Glad you liked it. Regards
Thanks Dave. Really good vid.
Glad you enjoyed it. Hope you can put the information to good use. Thanks for watching. Regards.
Good video Dave.
Hello Mark, thanks for the view and comment. I hope that you found it useful for when you come to use your one. You just have to hope that you have a reasonable Chinglish instruction manual, if not you may struggle when you come to use other functions; such as PCD for hole positioning. If you watch Joe Pie, he has a good technique when doing hole circles, his latest engine build series shows it, about 3 videos back I think when he was drilling the cylinder caps. Take care. Regards.
good video Dave
Thanks for the view. Best Wishes.
Best video I've seen explaining this David. Makes me wish I had a DRO on my mill. I would like to upgrade to a better mill with DRO some day. Pension permitting! Keep well and safe David cheers Nobby.
Glad it was helpful Nobby. Would you be able to fit a DRO to your mill, should one mysteriously appear on your doorstep ? Send me an email for more information. Regards.
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Have sent you an email David to = davesozzyworkshop
Hope that's correct. Thanks again for your videos and nice comments to me. Cheers Nobby
Dave I see you are no spring chicken. I am not too far away. been machining stuff since '97 not 9-5 but quite a bit. Some months more like 0800-2000 6 days a week. Now I see my vision starting to go bad. Some one told me cause I am looking at small stuff as lot, edge finder, test indicator, visually touching off tool to workpiece either on lathe or mill and I can still tell if I have gone in say .001-.005 inch with my eye. Reading road signs while driving is a different story. Could my problem have anything to do with machining, too dim lighting, need magnifiers or just age. Is this which I am describing common amongst machinists. I know its off topic, but you seem like you might have an answer. Thanks.
Hi there, thanks for the view and your question. I was 73 this Year, and so far still very active. Unfortunately as age creeps on, things start not being so easy. I suspect that you either need to get glasses or perhaps stronger ones. I wear glasses for reading and workshop use. I was advised at my last eye test to also wear long sight glasses for driving, it certainly make it clearer to read the car number plates. Yes most certainly good lighting on your machines will improve your vision, as the Eye iris will close down due to the strong light and that will improve your Depth of Field and give you sharper focus. Recently I purchased one of these visionaidmagnifier.com/products/visionaid%E2%84%A2-magnifying-glasses-with-a-special-storage-case
So much better than an Optivisor, as you wear this like a pair of glasses or use the headband provided. You can change the magnification by swapping lenses. You can have it adjusted so that you look through it to see the work, but you can also look over the top to get a normal view so that you can pick up tools, or see who has come into the room etc. Hope this is of some help. If you want more information then please email me for a personal reply. davesozzyworkshop@gmail.com
In your question you say that you are not far away. Do you mean in Age or are you referring to where you live ?
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@@daveticehurst4191 age. Im in Florida usa. It seems like ill need different specs for long range vision too. Just curious if this line work detrimental to long range vision.
Completely lost me. I still do not know the difference between abs and inc as far as what one means vs the other and when to use which one vs the other. Does one go with imperial and the other with metric??????
Hello John, thanks for the view and question. All that the Incremental setting function does is to isolate any settings that are in the Absolute Memory. You can then do whatever you want with the machine slides with regards to drilling / milling and it will not alter the ABS settings. As I showed in the video, I set the top left hand corner to ZERO using Imperial ABS. I then moved the table in X and Y to the Imperial settings. I then switched to the other channel INC, changed it to Metric, did al the slots and holes. The final hole needed to be Imperial and in relation to the original ZERO. So I switched the display back to Imperial and changed the channel to ABS, completed the job.
It is so much easier to do that just sticking with ABS then having to use a calculator or pencil and paper to work out what all the other co ordinated would need to be.
Perhaps if you get some more spare time, watch it again as you may have missed an important button push or whatever.
Hope this helps. Regards.