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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Height Setting Woes
« on: February 02, 2013, 03:11:01 AM »
Hi Gerry,
I am absolutely certain that there is no fault or problem with your Probing code - the issue I am suspecting lies with later versions of mach3.
I do a lot of engraving work which necessitates my use of a probing script after every tool change or when engraving different thickness laminates and I noticed a similar problem (to the one mentioned here) at the beginning of last year.
It appears that one of the Mach3 feed-hold flags is not cleared by the ‘Cycle Start’ or ‘Reset’ buttons, it becomes persistent but it can be cleared by the ‘Stop’ button. This particular flag does not affect the running of Program GCode but it does affect the way in which CB scripts perform.
My solution / work-around was to include the stop command within my probing script and this magically resolved the problem I was encountering.
I have no idea if the problem mentioned in this thread will be resolved by the same course of action but CNCjunky now has ‘DoOemButton(1003)’ added to his script and I await the results of his tests.
Tweakie.
I am absolutely certain that there is no fault or problem with your Probing code - the issue I am suspecting lies with later versions of mach3.
I do a lot of engraving work which necessitates my use of a probing script after every tool change or when engraving different thickness laminates and I noticed a similar problem (to the one mentioned here) at the beginning of last year.
It appears that one of the Mach3 feed-hold flags is not cleared by the ‘Cycle Start’ or ‘Reset’ buttons, it becomes persistent but it can be cleared by the ‘Stop’ button. This particular flag does not affect the running of Program GCode but it does affect the way in which CB scripts perform.
My solution / work-around was to include the stop command within my probing script and this magically resolved the problem I was encountering.
I have no idea if the problem mentioned in this thread will be resolved by the same course of action but CNCjunky now has ‘DoOemButton(1003)’ added to his script and I await the results of his tests.
Tweakie.