touch probe

HI All
I just purchased a touch probe for my cnc machine, wiring the unit doesn't seem to be an issue my big question is how do I get EMC to use the probe. I checked the wiki docs and there is nothing under touch probe that goes into setting up and running with a probe. Is there an auto setting that will allow you to put in the min and max for x,y and z that will traverse the part I am probing or is this manually controlled ? Is there more detailed documentation someplace on the site that the search function is not picking up?

Thanks,
Joel

Have you looked at gridprobe.ngc which is included with EMC?

and also

timeguy.com/cradek/01262579508

Rick G

Thanks Rick and BigJohnT I will look into both of those. I will have to upgrade to 2.5 first. for Motion-probe. Any suggestion when I upgrade or should it be straight forward ?



Joel

Should be painless.

Take a look ..

wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UPDATI...ween_2_3_x_and_2_4_x

and

buildbot.linuxcnc.org/

Rick G

BigJohnT wrote:

Also, in 2.5 ngcgui has a probe subroutine adapted from smartprobe.ngc that would make it fast and easy if you do a lot of probing.

John

Hello, which sub routine were you refering to here ? Am on 2.5 ... Thank you