Hello all captain idiot here,
I know I am late to the probing game but oh well. So I have just installed the update with the probing routines. Now it seemed pretty straight forward select a button and boom probe moves and you have your settings. X and y easy peasy Z as well. Until I realized the machine does not know much about the probe I am using.
yes I entered the diameter of the probe but it has no indication of the length. So here is my senario.
Previously use a touch probe.nc file to set Z.
1 turn on machine and home it.
2 machine goes to tool height setter and sets height to tool in machine(.25 in end mill)
3 run touchprobe.nc to set Z manually set XY
4 run project, project complete turnoff machine
5 run update.
6 home machine sets tool height last tool ran is .25 in end mill
new probing routine
probe is machined rod diameter is .313 with a length turned down to .25. length sticking out of collet 1.971
now what, do I call a g code to set the probe height. Set Tool in the tool table.
here is where I get lost, if my last tool was a v bit I will need to change tools to get the appropriate offsets. So let s say the last tool used was a v bit.
I could write a routine to change to the tool probe assign the probe a tool number and run routine before setting xyz.
Does anyone see any flaws, in my thinking. Sorry if I am not sure of something I have to flesh it out. Thanks for your input.
I know I am late to the probing game but oh well. So I have just installed the update with the probing routines. Now it seemed pretty straight forward select a button and boom probe moves and you have your settings. X and y easy peasy Z as well. Until I realized the machine does not know much about the probe I am using.
yes I entered the diameter of the probe but it has no indication of the length. So here is my senario.
Previously use a touch probe.nc file to set Z.
1 turn on machine and home it.
2 machine goes to tool height setter and sets height to tool in machine(.25 in end mill)
3 run touchprobe.nc to set Z manually set XY
4 run project, project complete turnoff machine
5 run update.
6 home machine sets tool height last tool ran is .25 in end mill
new probing routine
probe is machined rod diameter is .313 with a length turned down to .25. length sticking out of collet 1.971
now what, do I call a g code to set the probe height. Set Tool in the tool table.
here is where I get lost, if my last tool was a v bit I will need to change tools to get the appropriate offsets. So let s say the last tool used was a v bit.
I could write a routine to change to the tool probe assign the probe a tool number and run routine before setting xyz.
Does anyone see any flaws, in my thinking. Sorry if I am not sure of something I have to flesh it out. Thanks for your input.