Thanks Mike,
Neither jogging nor motion smoothness should not be effected. The only reason I can imagine it would be is if the host PC is maxing out its resources. What are the PCs specs and have you ran it while monitoring resources?
Could be the problem because the computer is not the fastest. It is a P-IV 2.8ghz with 2gb ram and an onboard video card.
When finding the center it should end at the center of the feature your finding the center of. Is your touch plate height and tool diameter set correctly?
I will have to check but Can't see how the probe height would affect the circle center probe.
If probing is working in your motion device plugin I think it will be OK. If your not running Mach4 version 2.2914 with all things default, you should be (the ReadMe that was included elaborates on this if I am not mistaken).
It was spelled out in the read me and I thought that I had the latest stuff but I will check and report back.
I was able to run the built in probing routines with no problems but since your touch routines are another GUI it might just be because of the onboard video/lack of resources.. This is a SFF Dell so I can't add a separate video card.
I would like to see it do a double touch for extra accuracy.
Since this is meant to be used with tools or probes, your Probe Feed Rate needs to be as slow as necessary for your machine to touch and stop before hurting the tool or touch plate or part. Since there is no intent for it to ever touch at a higher rate than this, double touch is a moot point. However, you can edit the module to add this option if you like.
If I need to feed at 2"/minute to get a "good"measurement but I probing between 18" it will take quite awhile to probe which is a big reason for a double touch probe routine.
I doubt I will ever add the bit to increment through tools with each touch. Hopefuly if anyone wants this it will easy enough for them to add that option.
Someday I will take the time to learn LUA but right now I want to run my machines. That being said I am very appreciative of all the work everyone is doing and if I can add to it I will.
Mike