For those that chose to USE the plugin to save a few tips and broken probes please consider sending Scott a FIVE dollar bill as appreciation for all his hard work on this Plugin it was a bit tricky to pull off.
Especially if you are using it in a commercial application and are making money off the use.
Scott is BACK AT SCHOOL so his FREE time is very limited and he does a lot of this from the goodness of his heart.
So please consider a donation to the cause, Cause he is probably broke going back to college at HIS age (;-)
To use the plugin you need of course the PLUGIN and you need to create 2 Mcodes (macros) 1 to turn ON a UserLED() and 1 to turn it OFF. You do not have to put the Uled on screen but it makes it NICE to be able to see IF it is ON or OFF. BUT it is not really neccessary as IF in dought turn it on or off again.
I use M20 to turn it on and M21 to turn it off.
'M20 ,Macro for Protected Move ON
SetUserLed(2001,1)
End
'M21 ,Macro for Protected Move OFF
SetUserLed(2001,0)
End
Now you can use it from Gcode or from the MDI.
You can also create On Screen Buttons to do the functions
How the Function works is When you turn on the Function the plugin is monitoring MACH3 for several things. It looks to see IF a G31 is active. IF it is everything is normal. IF it is NOT active and then the probe is tripped MACH3 will issue a STOP command to halt motion on all axis , this will help save the Tip/Probe from damage.
It also works IF you are jogging.
(;-) TP
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