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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Having trouble with Probing
« on: July 06, 2019, 08:15:54 PM »
Hi,
No, I don't think so.
Notwithstanding your efforts to immunize you machine from noise I still suspect that it is happening.
May I suggest a simple experiment. If you write a small script, or easier still just a couple of lines in the MDI panel
and you can probe. What this means is that the software of the TouchOff module is not involved at all. If there remains
a problem then its more hardware. If there are no probing problems encountered then its the software of the module.
Jog the machine to above, 1/4 inch or so above a surface to be probed. Zero the z axis. Code into the MDI panel
g31 z-1 f10
g0 z0
If you execute I would expect the probe to descend at 10 inch/min until probe strike. Thereafter it should return to the same
height (ie 1/4 inch approx.) that you started. If the machine cannot do this repeatedly and consistently then no amount
of software in the probing module is going to help.
Craig
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Is there a plug-in I need to enable or disable, a file somewhere that isn’t automatically updated with an updated install?
No, I don't think so.
Notwithstanding your efforts to immunize you machine from noise I still suspect that it is happening.
May I suggest a simple experiment. If you write a small script, or easier still just a couple of lines in the MDI panel
and you can probe. What this means is that the software of the TouchOff module is not involved at all. If there remains
a problem then its more hardware. If there are no probing problems encountered then its the software of the module.
Jog the machine to above, 1/4 inch or so above a surface to be probed. Zero the z axis. Code into the MDI panel
g31 z-1 f10
g0 z0
If you execute I would expect the probe to descend at 10 inch/min until probe strike. Thereafter it should return to the same
height (ie 1/4 inch approx.) that you started. If the machine cannot do this repeatedly and consistently then no amount
of software in the probing module is going to help.
Craig