Work with probe

I just run it as a separate program since I rarely need run it. I would only rerun it if I did something like remove the tool setter and reinstall it. Or, if I did something that would have caused the value in G59.3 to change.

mwidlok wrote:

I'm waiting now for a Chinese probe (~40EUR with shipping, not sure how good/bad it will be). I've tried also to build my own version (render attached) that worked, but accuracy of 3d printers that I used was rather poor. I also had problems with finding springs and tuning it on the machine.

Have you seen my design, using off-the-shelf dowel pins instead of balls? It doesn't need any fasteners, so can easily be made small. 

ok, what version, exactly, is everyone referring to???
and does it truly work with the master branch ???

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Roguish wrote:

ok, what version, exactly, is everyone referring to???
and does it truly work with the master branch ???

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Roguish, please revert to qtdragon probing where you have been working. This thread is based on the original versa probe routines which from what I can work out has never been updated for python 3. It's a shame all this recent work and effort on this thread has not been directed at the latest version  of versa probing that is built into qtdragon in v 2.9 

We have a real meas with all the versions of "probe screen" floating around and I just added one more..... Anybody has any solution for this? My changes will not run on older systems, so I don't think that asking original author to push it to git is an option.

One option would be to ask the original author if ProbeScreen could be included in the LinuxCNC source code as a simulation configuration for the axis gui (and maybe another for gmoccapy).
This way it could actually be maintained in the context of the relevant LinuxCNC version branch on github.
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I think it would be a welcome addition to be able to add probing as an optional tab to axis and gmoccapy.

ok, what version, exactly, is everyone referring to???
and does it truly work with the master branch ???

Installing from github repo and applying patches as described here:
forum.linuxcnc.org/49-basic-configuratio...obe?start=640#276003
and here:
forum.linuxcnc.org/49-basic-configuratio...obe?start=640#276234


Seems to give me a running ProbeScreen config on a master RIP installation. However I cannot test actual probing since I do not have a probe.

Not sure what this patch does:
forum.linuxcnc.org/49-basic-configuratio...obe?start=640#276493