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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probing Help, angle measurement

« on: February 11, 2022, 04:36:55 PM »

Under the Operator menu select "Open Script Editor"

Then under "Modules" open mcProbing.lua

Search for "invalid plane selection for coordinate rotation" or part of it and delete each instance of the if then statement that leads to the error.

Check that it actually works because I don't really know what I'm doing and can't be held responsible for this idea if it goes bad... That said it's worked for me

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probing Help, angle measurement

« on: January 20, 2022, 01:03:20 PM »

I used the hammer fix, just removed the plane check from the lua script....

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Mach4 General Discussion / Probing Help, angle measurement

« on: January 20, 2022, 11:52:04 AM »

I'm trying to run a angle measurement from the probing page and keep getting the error: "invalid plane selection for coordinate rotation" my loaded Gcode includes a G17 and I have tried inputting a G17 in the MDI but still get the same error. Any ideas out there?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mirror Toolpath

« on: December 09, 2021, 03:09:04 PM »

Is there a simple way to mirror a toolpath to cut out a mirror image? A search brings up using "-1" as a scale factor in mach3 but I don't see the scale option in the screen set I use in mach4

Thanks,
Nate

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Boss Probing Not Working

« on: October 02, 2021, 10:42:45 AM »

And yes, changing the setting in the ESS fixed probing issues for me

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Boss Probing Not Working

« on: September 21, 2021, 05:06:27 PM »

In newer versions of the ESS there's a setting that'll cycle stop after a probe failure. Possibly that could be impacting your probe routine?

I think this is the issue, I'll give it a try tomorrow.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Boss Probing Not Working

« on: September 21, 2021, 01:45:51 PM »

And touch something or just let it get to the end without touching? A normal probe move that hits the part works just fine. If I G31 with nothing to touch I get that answer.  That error was coming during the Probe XY or radius calibration on the move to the Z measurment height before the actual probing of the bore

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Boss Probing Not Working

« on: September 21, 2021, 09:07:11 AM »

I'm pretty sure that's not the case for me as all the g31 setup moves end with:

ESS starting Probe 0
ESS: Failure! Probe0 never hit or the allowed distance was traveled. Switching from PROBING to NORMAL state.
ERROR: No contact with probe

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Boss Probing Not Working

« on: September 20, 2021, 05:07:31 PM »

That's a very good point about using G31 for all the moves with a probe. There must be some underlying set up issue then because as I said and as it came up in a few other threads recently that the set up moves in some of the probing routines werent working as it would do the pre probe moves and then spit an error when it never touched anything even though it wasnt meant to

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Boss Probing Not Working

« on: September 17, 2021, 12:20:18 PM »

Seems like there is a very common issue with many of the probing functions in the mcProbing.lua file. I dealt with a similar issue in the calibration and I'm just looking at the same issue in the external corner probing routine. Who ever wrote these scripts seems to have used a G31 command for moves that are just setup moves in some cases