As of 27 March 2015, the plugin and firmware for the PMDX SmartBOB-USB boards
does not support probing yet. This applies to both tool length probing and digitizing
of coordinates. Our software for probing support is mostly developed and we expect
to release it next week. New plugins and firmware can be downloaded from our
web site. When this release occurs, it will be announced here:
http://www.pmdx.com/PMDX-Forums/index.php?board=2.0You can request automatic notification of announcements by following the instructions
here:
http://www.pmdx.com/PMDX-Forums/index.php?topic=55.0The options that you see in the PMDX-SmartBOB-USB plugin configuration dialogs
are for controlling the electrical characteristics of the signal input used for pin 15 on
the SmartBOB-USB. This one pin has special properties for accommodating the behavior
of Wildhorse brand of digitizing probes and similar ones which contain an LED connected
across the electrical contacts inside the probe.