Summed DRO for Manual axis

[Abakker]

Hi - I’m retrofitting a bed mill that has a quill and I’m wondering if it is possible to have my quill encoder sun to my z axis DRO so that if I choose to manually drill holes, I am not losing my zero datum. It’s not a deal breaker, but centroid has this feature and I’m trying to figure out if it could be replicated in UCCNC.

[cncdrive]

You could configure an AUX encoder in the UCCNC and then you could write a macro which would read the encoder and updates the Z axis position DRO for example on a button stop or you could write a macroloop which would read the encoder DRO continously and could update the Z axis DRO automatically if the encoder value changes.