Mark wrote: > Have you looked at nc_files/gridprobe.ngc? This does probing in an X-Y > grid. > Probing is documented at > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode_main.html#sub:G38.2:-Straight-Probe
Thanks for the information Mark. I have not been as diligent as I should be in looking at the examples in nc_files. I expected the solution to be more complicated than it seems to be. So thanks to the emc team for that. > > If I understand your setup correctly, you need to move in an A-Z grid and > probe with G38.2 Xn, where if the center of the part is X0, n is smaller > than the smallest radius of the part. G38.x does not return the probe to > the starting position, you must do that yourself before moving to the next > grid point. > > > Do you plan to release your software? I'm sure that people would be > interested in it. It doesn't need to be perfect. Although this is a retirement hobby , I do intend to release for interested users when I have finished a couple more sections. That should be around the beginning of September. Don't know where I will put it though, maybe on sourceforge. I expect it will have limited appeal as the code as written at present expects the use of a rotary table or equivalent. I have included in design the ability to implement rotary movements as circular gcode but this wont be implemented for quite a while (at least until I get a more standard cnc mill setup). Also am developing in latest version of mono on opensuse11.0 so dont yet know how easy it will be to place on ubuntu as the mono sources seem quite old. Finally, the first time I sent my email my mailer said it hadn't been delivered so I resent. It was wrong and hence I seem to have two copies of the email on the newsgroup. My apologies for this and would a list admin please merge them together. Thanks Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
