Work with probe

Glad you got it working.
Regards,
Tom.

hatch789 wrote: After one downloads the v2 project from github, is there a concise list of updates/fixes that should be applied? There seems to be some manual things you guys were discussing to fix problems with the routine.

I try to keep Probe Screen up to date. Please, if something is forgotten, report it.

Hello all,

My name is Rene and a week ago I decided to implement Probe_Screen_v2 to my Hobby-LinuxCNC-machine because I think it is very useful to get some additional information about the requested tool during manual tool change!!

Many thanks to the developer!!! The instructions for the installation are really helpful and is was easy to implement Probe Screen to LinuxCNC! I followed the instructions as described, copied all files to the right location including the hidden .axisrc file, did the changes in ini and hal and changed some variables in the ini to match my machine...

Almost everything is working as expected, but I got only one issue during the tool change routine as I described in
forum.linuxcnc.org/gmoccapy/36973-error-...obe-screen-v2#149480

I hope I'll get it to work soon.
Any help or tips are very appreciated!!!!

Thanks a lot to all and greetings from Austria.
RENE

Hello,
I am running the vers.by Touchprobe and have some issues with the remapping of M6. The probe itself is working and I can measure the tool sensor height and the workpiece height.
But when I want to start my milling routine, the remapping of M6 does not work. The machine is moving to the tool change position, but no popup window appears.
I found out, that the routine manual_change.ngc is entered correctly, but in line 29, where it says

; using the code being remapped here means 'use builtin behaviour'
M6

the program stops and no popup message appears. Any idea and what is the builtin behaviour?
I am using 2.7.14 with gmoccapy and the touchprobe V2.
I saw the thread with the % character problem, but I do not have a percent character.

Regards
Albert

my glasball says, you have not closed the tool change loop.

Norbert

Hi Norbert,

sorry, for not being precise.
In my ini file I have the follwoing for the probe screen and for the remapping:

[DISPLAY]
EMBED_TAB_NAME=Probe Screen
EMBED_TAB_LOCATION = ntb_preview
EMBED_TAB_COMMAND=halcmd loadusr -Wn gladevcp gladevcp -c gladevcp -x {XID} -u python/probe_screen.py -H probe_icons_1024x768/probe_screen.hal probe_icons_1024x768/probe_screen.glade

[RS274NGC]
SUBROUTINE_PATH = macros
PARAMETER_FILE = linuxcnc.var
FEATURES=30
#ON_ABORT_COMMAND=O <on_abort> call
REMAP=M6 modalgroup=6 prolog=change_prolog ngc=manual_change epilog=change_epilog

My custom_postgui.hal file includes this and I have commented out everything from the settings, where I only had a tool sensor and no touchprobe, which actually worked at that time.

# tool change
# in case they were linked already
unlinkp iocontrol.0.tool-change
unlinkp iocontrol.0.tool-changed

net tool-prep-loopback iocontrol.0.tool-prepare <= iocontrol.0.tool-prepared

# AS wegen vers.by probe net tool-change gmoccapy.toolchange-change <= iocontrol.0.tool-change
# AS wegen vers.by probe net tool-changed gmoccapy.toolchange-changed <= iocontrol.0.tool-changed
# AS wegen vers.by probe net tool-prep-number gmoccapy.toolchange-number <= iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number
# net tooloffset-x gmoccapy.tooloffset-x <= motion.tooloffset.x
# net tooloffset-z gmoccapy.tooloffset-z <= motion.tooloffset.z


The tool change loop should be closed in probe_screen.hal with this, isn't it?

net tool-change probe.toolchange-change <= iocontrol.0.tool-change
net tool-changed probe.toolchange-changed <= iocontrol.0.tool-changed
net tool-prep-number probe.toolchange-number <= iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number

Regards,
Albert