No, no, no!!!! I vote for not creating more obscure GCode hacks. Scripting
is MUCH MUCH MUCH easier and MUCH MUCH MUCH more powerful. Anyone who can
deal with that goofy macroB nonsense should be able to do scripting in their
sleep.
Jeff Birt
Soigeneris.com
From: mach1mach2cnc@... [mailto:mach1mach2cnc@...]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 7:24 AM
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Subject: Re: [mach1mach2cnc] Where are we in Mach 4
Should be part of what is added for Probe.. I am thinking about doing the
probe with Gcode rather then scripting...
Would you all feel better about changing Gcode rather then doing scripting?
It would not be "normal" Gcode, it would be full of #'s and [vars]
Thanks
Brian
On 3/9/2015 3:01 PM, 'rad@...' rad@... [mach1mach2cnc] wrote:
Hi Brian & Jerry,
May I butt in here please?
With probing, I would just love it if we could select to start off by
finding the centre of a pre-cut hole and then set Z zero from the base
through that hole.
I get to clean up a lot of laser cut plates. They come to me with the large
holes laser cut. Using the centres of those holes as datums I have to clean
up the hole surfaces and then drill and mill as required all the other
markings.
Thanks for listening,
Russell Dunn
Ferlach
Austria
On 9 Mar 2015, at 14:33, Brian Barker brianb@... [mach1mach2cnc]
<mach1mach2cnc@...> wrote:
Hi Jerry,
We are starting on the wizards for turn as soon as we get the new version
out. We added pocketing of any shape with islands too the wizards but it is
very untested at this point. This was the last "to do" we had before turn...
The fun part of this is that we are going to use this same code to produce
the Lathe cut path so you can turn any shape in the Turn wizards! This is
going to make for a very powerful set of wizards in Turn. Mach motion tested
turn and they where shocked how nice it is working and we are not calling it
finished.
There are many ways to do Probe.. what are you thinking? Find Center and
edge? or are you thinking tool length probe? I have a guy I can pay to get
the scripts or Gcode to do this so I just need some clear picture of what
you think you need.
Now on another note if you are running the industrial version we can now run
the "Fanuc standard" Renishaw Macro's so for users that are into that level
they can used what is considered to be the best in the world for Probing
parts.
Thanks
Brian
