Looks awsome, will for sure try it out within a month or two when my new
machine is up.
Regards,
Sven
2007/11/8, Chris Radek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi all, I don't want to distract everyone from EMC2.2 but I've done
> some fun stuff in TRUNK (pre-2.3) with probing. I don't think many
> people are using probes but I know some are, and they might like to
> try it. I'd appreciate any reports of success or failure.
>
> There are some new Gcodes documented here:
>
>
> http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gcode_main.html#sub:G38.2:-Straight-Probe
>
> which allows much smarter probing without all the wasted motion. I
> tweaked gridprobe.ngc into smartprobe.ngc:
>
> http://cvs.linuxcnc.org/cvs/emc2/nc_files/smartprobe.ngc?rev=1.1
>
> and the results are something like this (the program preview is
> turned off, and the purple lines are the backplot):
>
> http://timeguy.com/cradek-files/emc/smartprobe.png
> http://timeguy.com/cradek-files/emc/smartprobe2.png
>
> Connecting those points gives this path:
>
> http://timeguy.com/cradek-files/emc/probe-results.png
>
> This example was 2500 points probed in about 20 minutes. It's often
> doing several points a second. I also added probe protection, so if
> the probe trips when there is NOT a probing move going on, the machine
> stops.
>
> I think with these new G38.x primitives there are a lot of smart ways
> you could probe a shape. If you write one let us know!
>
> Chris
>
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