Siemens SINUMERIK 840D sl Programming Manual page 464

Tool offsets
7.3 Special handling of tool offsets
The following table shows the assignment of tool length components to geometry axes for all
other tools (tool types < 400 or > 599):
Operating plane
*)
18
19
-17
-18
-19
*)
Note
For representation in tables, it is assumed that geometry axes up to 3 are designated with X,
Y, Z. The axis order and not the axis identifier determines the assignment between a
compensation and an axis.
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Length 1
Z
Y
X
Z
Y
X
Each value not equal to 0, which is not equal to one of the six listed values, is evaluated as value
17.
Length 2
Y
X
Z
X
Z
Y
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Length 3
X
Z
Y
Y
X
Z
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