Citizen Cincom F16 help needed

[Desmato]

Ok, so who here can give me a crash course in initial setup on this thing ? I'm having one hell of a time with proper tool offset measurements even with the presetter (which is zero'd).

I was told by the old owner "use U & W for the offsets" but those don't seem to do anything different than if I use X & Z. The machine makes parts after i trash 10 of them dialing in a new tool !

 

[aj]

U and W are incremental moves. The command W-0.050 would move Z in a negative direction 0.050 thousandths.
How are you calling up tool offsets? It should look something like this:

T1500 (Calls up station 15)
G0 X0.100 Z0.050 T15 (Adds the information in the geometry page for tool 15 and moves X to 0.100 and Z to 0.050)