Work with probe

Hi Ken,
where can I get it to test it out?

thanks,
john

Hi CSBrady,
I was using the probe screen and all was working fine. I upgraded to master a couple of days ago and now it does not work fine. I have this strange ´must be in mdi mode´ issue. I looked at your patch but did not install it so far as reading your posts it seemed you could not get to the bottom of it... Any suggestions? How did you solve this problem?

cheers!
John

You (or anyone else) can find it here.

Ken

Hi Ken,
many thanks. Silly question (i am new to this) but how do I use these probe routines? I mean how do I call them. Is it via the command line or are they in the gui as options I can click to use?

cheers,
John

I call them all from the MDI window. Sort of.

I'm using an MPG which has a dozen or so buttons (16?). My linux ini contains lines that cause MDIs to be executed when certain buttons are used. It also can set a variable when the MPG moves. So a typical operation might be to manually jog to the position I want to probe from. Then move a small distance in the direction I want to probe.

When I press the probe button my my MPG, the o<safe_probe_edge> routine is called. It looks at the last direction of motion to determine in which direction to probe.

I can position (by jogging) the probe in the center of a hole. Then hit the button corresponding to find the center of a hole. The routine is executed and the probe positioned to the center.

Some routines must be manually executed through the MDI. My calibrate routines are described earlier in this thread.

Ken

very interesting. I would like to try this. I have a pendant I can wire up. would you be kind enough to share your .ini so I can try and see how it all works..

cheers,
john

I'd really like to get this running but I'm struggling. I've placed all the files in subdirs from my config folder, modded my ini to contain:
[DISPLAY]
DISPLAY = axis

EMBED_TAB_NAME=Probe Screen
EMBED_TAB_COMMAND=halcmd loadusr -Wn gladevcp gladevcp -c gladevcp -u python/probe_screen.py -x {XID} probe_icons/probe_screen.glade
[RS274NGC]
PARAMETER_FILE = linuxcnc.var
FEATURES=30
SUBROUTINE_PATH= home/james/my-mill/macro
[TOOLSENSOR]
RAPID_SPEED = 60

But I'm getting an error:
Embeded tab command "halcmd loadusr -Wn gladevcp gladevcp -c gladevcp -u python/probe_screen.py -x 106955024 probe_icons/probe_screen.glade" exited with error: 1
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...

I notice someone else much earlier in the thread had the same issue but I didn't see a fix for them, or a root cause. Can anyone help me identify it please?

OK I solved my own problem by downloading the master.zip again and overwriting - looks like I had a corrupted file.

you might want to look at rapid speed =60, don't know if you simply changed that for testing but its a bit slow..

cheers, john

has ANYONE got this probe_screen to work with master?
if yes, how the heck? could 'ya share the way?
thanks