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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z touch plate, using alternate input
« on: August 08, 2014, 08:56:37 AM »
The Brain did the trick.. thank-you.
The Brain is pretty simple. The two inputs are Input 1 and Input 2. Each has a "no operation" lobe. This passes the setting on.. The next lobe is a "OR" operation of the previous two lobes. And then it terminates with setting the "Probe" signal. I then went into ports and pins config, and disabled the probe input. I might not need the "no operation" lobes, but it works, I'm not going to go back and futz with it.
It works a treat.
The cool part now, is once I start to digitizing, I can zero out the digitizing probe with the same auto zero routine. My metal touch place is 1/8" thick, by putting a piece of scrap between the object and the digitizer probe, I can zero it out. That should save me some digitizing time because the Z won't have to travel as far.
Thank-you again....
The Brain is pretty simple. The two inputs are Input 1 and Input 2. Each has a "no operation" lobe. This passes the setting on.. The next lobe is a "OR" operation of the previous two lobes. And then it terminates with setting the "Probe" signal. I then went into ports and pins config, and disabled the probe input. I might not need the "no operation" lobes, but it works, I'm not going to go back and futz with it.
It works a treat.
The cool part now, is once I start to digitizing, I can zero out the digitizing probe with the same auto zero routine. My metal touch place is 1/8" thick, by putting a piece of scrap between the object and the digitizer probe, I can zero it out. That should save me some digitizing time because the Z won't have to travel as far.
Thank-you again....