Howdy all, putting everything back together now after getting my jackpot back, so far it seems to be working however I can’t get it to probe. I see 4 different probe ‘types’ 36.2, 36.4 etc (no idea what they mean) but none of them actually make the machine probe and 3 of them just lock the machine and send a bunch of alarms.
The probe tab is up obviously, the probe is showing normal touch/no touch behavior, but the machine itself isn’t doing anything.
Did I miss an option box somewhere?
What did you enter as probe options?
Does your probe LED work?
Have you seen the code on the milling basics page? Use that as your starting and tool change gcode and probe should work just fine.
Got it. I forgot the stock Z steps is 1/2 of what my leadscrew actually is and the feed rate was set at 20. It was actually moving, but it would best be described as ‘glacially’. or similar to continental drift…
So I have 2 working probe options. Both will make contact, but both sit at contact without a pullback so I can remove the touch plate. I looked through the config and preferences, I haven’t found a spot to make that happen.
If you are using the probe tab and manually probing you also need to manually move out of the way. If you look at the milling basics and include it in your jobs it is all automatic. I only ever use the probe tab for leveling my machine initially and never again after. Doing it manually opens up lots of ways to forget and screw up.
Found the spot to add code to the probe command. What I thought was just a logo is in fact a button to another config screen. Learning new interfaces is just so fun.
Soooo Settings—>ESP Interface (I didn’t see this as a button) and then scroll down to the probe. There is a command line there that you can add to. You need a ; between each command, so going after what’s already there
“;g91;g00 Z10; g90”
Save it and it will now probe to contact and then raise 10mm, indicator shows Z is at 25mm (my touch plate is 15) all is right in probing land.
Fun adventures in 1am gcoding. Not switching to relative, probing and then seeing it go DOWN 10mm. Out of curiosity change from 10 to 30 and then watching it move up. Turning off the machine making it 10 feet out of my garage and my last brain cell fired off, back in and back on.
Putting an X move instead of a Z, probing and watching the core then scoot across the table. That one was obvious what I did wrong, but still funny.
So tomorrow I’ll be able to level the gantry and do some test cuts to see if I need to tweek anything else before it goes back to work.
Manually probing has been part of my workflow since the beginning. Secure the material, set origin, probe, start the program. The only time I don’t is if I’m swapping in the same material as I just finished with. It’s habit for me and if I am cutting the same thing (doing kitchen cabinet doors now) I don’t want to probe every piece.
Cool, There are plenty of people around here that chase zero’s in accuracy, so it is good to hear someone is doing more production style. Overcut a bit more and increase your efficiency, no need to probe every time. Along those same notes you can use workspaces to set up different areas of your table for other operations.
It’s a hobby for me and I’m not doing anything that must be perfectly accurate no matter what. Right now I’m re-doing our kitchen (trying to anyway) so I just need 1/4 pockets cut into the new shaker style doors. It can be .25 or .26 etc and it won’t affect things at all for me.
Software wise I got everything set today. I’m square, I’m level, it probes correctly etc. and my machine is dead again. Not dead dead, but I can’t use it. The Esp apparently wasn’t the issue, or not all of it.