Gene, I think what you want to do now is generate a g-code file that moves to all the points on the grid of the region that you want to scan.
The fragment below shows raster in y direction at .1 unit intervals, from a rapid height of .5 in z (PROBEOPEN probefile.txt) G00 X 1.0 Y 1.0 Z 0.5 G38.2 X 1.0 Y 1.0 Z 0.0 G00 X 1.0 Y 1.1 Z 0.5 G38.2 X 1.0 Y 1.1 Z 0.0 G00 X 1.0 Y 1.2 Z 0.5 G38.2 X 1.0 Y 1.2 Z 0.0 . . . (PROBECLOSE) Maybe you can use a spreadsheet to assist in creating the above. I suspect the probe file just stores the coordinates for X Y Z A B C at each probe point. You will have hand edit the probe file in order to get usable g-code that you can feed back into EMC. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] G38.2 > On Monday 30 April 2007, Chris Radek wrote: >>On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:12:33AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> What strikes me as a rather severe limitation to this concept is the >>> apparent lack of just using a logfile for the results >> >>See page 140 of the user manual > > Duh, that will teach me to read the whole thing, thanks Chris. And I have > to > assume the size limit for this file is whatever the filesystem can > handle.. > > And that reads differently on the wiki copy than my about a year old > printout, > the error conditions in particular really don't make a lot of sense in my > dead tree copy. Maybe that's why I didn't see the logfile comment, its > all > different now? > > Q: Not having done this yet so I can inspect the file, how complete is > the > machine state logged as? All 6 positions? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
