Re: [Emc-users] lathe homeing or tool probing as needed question?

2019-11-24 Thread Martin Dobbins
+1 on that idea, look forward to seeing what you come up with  Martin From: andy pugh (Note to self, I really ought to try making and writing-up my idea for a really simple-to-make kinematic probe) -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment

Re: [Emc-users] lathe homeing or tool probing as needed question?

2019-11-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 November 2019 06:43:21 andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 22:23, Gene Heskett wrote: > > one thing I didn't try at the time was a threading zero'er because > > it would have taken a second, z offset calibrated bit of pcb to > > sense the single tooth threading tools. > > I

Re: [Emc-users] lathe homeing or tool probing as needed question?

2019-11-24 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 22:23, Gene Heskett wrote: > one thing I didn't try at the time was a threading zero'er because it > would have taken a second, z offset calibrated bit of pcb to sense the > single tooth threading tools. I would argue that you don't really care where the point of the

[Emc-users] lathe homeing or tool probing as needed question?

2019-11-22 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I quite some time back, made a gismo that sits across the bed on TLM, left edge in contact with the chucks closed jaws, that had a squared pocket of pcb materiel for the tool to touch and register using a series of probes moves. one thing I didn't try at the time was a