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« on: April 03, 2018, 07:47:30 AM »
Dave,
Start somewhere and gradualy add things for probing. You can only fit so much on a screen page so you may
need more than one. The following could be thought of as blocks of a complete probing screen:
Tool setup page - a page to take care of populating the tool table via probing with all that is required to do it.
1. Tool table - be able to manipulate the tool table easily
- open, save, export, import,reset, back up tool table.
2. Probe tools to populate tool table based on a probe in spindle
- Probe / set plate for tool touch off
- Probe direction direction buttons
- Probe feedrate
- probe active
- tool number / prev and next for slelection
- tool offset adjustments for tool table values
- tool change location
3. Similar to 2 but using the knee, combine with 2, speperate page..........think about it some
4. Part of screen with jogging control and generic DRO's so no need to jump between pages to accomplish
whatever task your doing.
Probing routines for different situations. there is no one that satisfies every situation and is done the way you want it to work!
You define what you want and need. There are plenty of examples and there is no right or wrong way
to do it. You are the boss of the machine and not in some enviroment where is needs to be standardied!
Now take it up a notch and add pages or create wizard screen set to take care of stuff you don't use
every day like the follwoing:
1. The ability to manaully and automaticaly reverse engineer something, so your gathering locations and depending
on how the info is gathered you create a drawing of it for use in CAD or CAM.
Sometimes total automation is not the best thing to occur and semi or partialy manual is a much better method.
Different probes, different degrees of accuracy ( quick and ditry has it's place in doing work).
Just depends on how, what, and the end product YOU desire.
I also echo again that:
All tools are related to the master tool but they are related to each other.............
Consider working in Machine Coordinates for any measurement, if you start from a zero location all things are
related to zero!
Must remark that not the sharpest tack in scripting on this end, so , if I can do the above so can you.
Have fun,
RICH