Brian, please see this post on the forum and see if it's still an issue.

Gerry

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From: "Brian Barker brianb@... [mach1mach2cnc]"
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 8:23:49 AM
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
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