Looks nice,Is that your machine? Thats not exactly what I was thinking, but a custom Mcode has some appeal.
On Oct 2, 2017 3:41 AM, "Masoun Mardini" <masounmard...@gmail.com> wrote: > You mean something like this??? > https://youtu.be/OmOqhB4CsJk > if so you need to write your own G code program and remap to custom M > instruction ( note the video is done Linuxcnc but I think it will work on > machine kit) > > > On Sunday, 1 October 2017 20:26:26 UTC+2, Tom M wrote: >> >> My apologies in advance about this long brain-dump. >> I've been making good progress and having a lot of fun auto-homing >> <https://github.com/Workshop88/MPCNC/tree/AutoHoming> using Charles' HAL >> gantry component >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/machinekit/To6ivNZpEHU>for my >> dual gantry MPCNC <https://www.vicious1.com/specifications/> but now and >> now I'm ready to take it further. (A MPCNC is a Mostly Printed CNC is a low >> cost kit that you can make or buy which goes together fairly quick. Here's >> a link of one that we're putting together at workshop88: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N12Rk-Ss3aw ) >> I've been thinking about my next steps for my machine. >> >> At this point, I want to focus on V-carve engraving using F-engrave >> <http://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave.html> for generating >> g-code >> >> Some of the issues that I've been running into are: >> >> - Setting the Z-tool-offset >> - Parallelism being the wood surface and x-y plan of the machine. >> >> >> To that end I'm interested making some type of z-axis touch probe and >> start exploring pymachinetalk >> <https://github.com/machinekit/pymachinetalk>. >> Starting out, I'm probably going to make something simple, along the >> lines of this: >> >> http://www.mycncuk.com/threads/5057-another-tool-hight-setting-proble-%29 >> >> I like the idea of having some spring to the system that that I wont bury >> the tool into the tool height setter if I go too far. >> >> One thing that I don't like is that I have a wired connection to the >> pre-setter. It would be the cat's meow to have the switch wired to a >> pi-zero with wifi (I have a bunch of RPI's sitting unused) and have it talk >> to my beaglebone over wifi(or other wireless method)and tell the >> beaglebone about its reference height or if it's been touched but I'm >> getting way ahead of myself here. >> >> >> I really enjoy watching the Hal-gantry component derack to the switches. >> It's pretty cool which is influencing my thinking here. >> >> I want to have the z-offset work flow setting be something like this: >> >> 1. Manually rough set the z-height to the work >> 1. (This would be less than the height z-offset probe and >> would be a safety to insure that I don't bury the tool when using the >> probe) >> 2. raise the z-height and insert the probe above the tool. >> 3. Press a custom button on the axis display, which would lower the >> z-axis till the switch on the probe is tripped. It would then raise lower >> to find the exact point. If a rough distance has been defined and has >> been >> exceeded a fault estop would be generated. >> 4. Have parameters be automatically entered for tool offset. >> >> >> I'm thinking I can use tool/system initially for setting the Z tool >> offset, but could be extended to calibration of the x-y plane. >> >> >> My questions are: >> >> - Does this sound reasonable? >> - Is there a more established method for doing what I'm talking >> about. >> - Similar things have been done, but has what I'm talking about been >> done already? >> - If so does anyone have a links to recommended reading or the >> magic Google search terms to plug in? >> >> >> -- > website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: > https://github.com/machinekit > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Machinekit" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/machinekit/G-JCTrkPI5w/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
