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I am able to probe my work with the Hallmark probe, in the spindle,  and I have an amazon toolsetter wired in as well (it is set on the corner of the mill table). They both trigger the probe input just fine. I followed a couple videos that showed how to touch off the spindle nose from the toolsetter and I was able to get a value and enter that for spindle zero. The next step in the videos is to insert a tool, set toolsetter coordinates (with z all the way up, 16 inches in my case as it is set 0 at bottom of travel and 16 at top home switch) and then touch off the tool. When that is done in the videos, the z moves down at the rate set in probing and it enters the tool length into the tool table. My machine moved down at a very high speed, 100 ipm. When I push the toolsetter with my finger, it gives an error, probe tripped during non probe move. I'm not willing to let the tool come down that fast to see what would happen. It seems something is off just by the rate the head drops. Changing the speed makes no difference, unless I set rapid to 0, then it says it can't make the move. What DOES change the speed is moving the V slider down from 100%. Still, pressing the toolsetter while it is moving slower just gives the same error. Maybe something is off in the hal file and it isn't realizing that is the toolsetter.
 
Right now, I'm tired and am new to getting this all setup and I also don't understand all the work offsets. I can get more data or a video to share if needed, so someone can better follow along with the problem I'm having. It has been challenging to find much in the way of videos or information on setting up and actually using Probe Basic.

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the hallmark probe and toolsetter are both normally closed and wired to different inputs, but they are tied together with an or string in hal, so I must have both connected at the same time. They both turn on the probe light on the probing screen.

I do not know if everything I need in the probe basic conversion actually transfered over. Some of the conversational pages are blank. It only has facing and hole drilling. I went into the simulation again to see what it includes and it matches what I have. Perhaps something else is off with the conversion and that is part of the problem with trying the toolsetter.

I am using the TTS tormach tool system but want to machine o ring grooves in cylinders to build my power drawbar, so am manually changing tools. My goal is to get one or two tools to work so I can machine a simple circular groove in those parts and face (manually if needed) them to mate up properly. I did the first Titans of CNC video on fusion 360 cad and watched the video on cam. I have only run the machine manually and am learning how to get it setup to run a part.

The other thing I have not quite figured out is how to set the length of my Hallmark probe, or more accurately, how to determine it's length so I can set it......other than trying to use calipers. I don't have a granite plate and caliper setup for measuring tool length.

Maybe someone knows why z rapids down and is not using the probe parameters for speed that I set at something like 10 ipm rapid and 1 ipm slow, or has a link for more info. Does anyone have a link for a good explanation of all the different offsets........anything to become more familiar with what is on the probe basic pages? Any help would be appreciated......let me know what info I should add.

Thanks

Hi,

Apologies for hijacking this thread.

I have one of these XP200 drives that I'm about to start using for a project, I want to use it in speed mode, so set it to a certain RPM and have it try to maintain that RPM under varying load.

What's the easiest way to set it up in speed mode without a computer (I might add a computer later), I was envisioning connecting up a potentiometer but I'm guessing it's probably not going to be that easy, as this thread is saying I need to supply 24v to enable it or is that only for STEP/DIR?

Thanks!

I have this
forum.linuxcnc.org/18-computer/54368-pci...ut-of-the-box#313942
I can do some tests whenever i get to the shop and report back.
All built in parallel ports that i have tested worked in X mode, all were on used "enterprise" PC's from Dell, HP, Lenovo and Fujitsu.
Also did test one of the PCI cards in X mode and it worked with the above mentioned issue that it did require a bit more current to trigger, not sure of the exact one as i had over 10 versions.

my1987toyota wrote:

Well it's official January 2026 Autodesk Fusion 360 will no longer support Windows 10 . Either switch
to Windows 11 or you can no longer use fusion 360.


 

I think I've got a solution that won't entirely suck: Win 11 Enterprise LTSC

No AI, no features updates, no bloat, no MS store.  10 years of security updates.

I've been running W10 LTSC for a few years and it's what Windoze should be.  Fast, clean, no garbage, no crashes, no surprises after an update.  I bought a 5-pack of Win10LTSC licenses in 2020 and have had no issues on any of the installations.

CDW has a license for $200, but pckeys.uk has them for around 40 UK bongo-bucks and they get cheaper for multi-packs if you have a few PC's to do.

I don't know the difference between Enterprise LTSC, Enterprise N LTSC, and IOT Enterprise LTSC, but I know IOT allows you to remove a bunch of software/services during install.

I'll be doing some more research to pick a flavor, but this is the route I'm taking for those of us who need to remain on Win for F360 and other reasons.

Unknown which cards work in that mode, if any at all are made with O\C outputs any more.

If you need extra inputs you may be able to buy a PCIE card with 2 Parallel Ports. Tho I could only find PCI cards.

You may have to realise that you may not be able to do what you want.

Doesnt work with 100ohm resistors as well. I even tried shorting the out pin 16 to ground but there is no state change. , the default 10,11,12,13,15 input pins change state when shorted to ground on my parallel port card. And remain high as a default. Does this say anything?

Also i request you to please suggest me a suitable pcie parallel port card that is able to work in x mode

I can access the wiki, but I can't get "logged in" to edit.
Jon

I have already tested the STEP generators and they work perfectly, the only problem I have found is that the maximum speed I have achieved is 12, any higher speed immediately gives a join X following error. I tried changing the FERROR and MIM ERROR values, it improves I can increase the speed but in the end the following error appears again.

Thanks! Always nice to be appreciated, though I mostly posted that because I want folks to know that stuff is happening in the FreeCAD world- just 'cause it annoyed the snot out of you and crashed 3 months ago doesn't mean it's not noticeably better now (again, at least in the weekly builds).

I'm also just unreasonably excited about that particular feature... mostly because the lack of it has been creating tedium for my CAM workflow. But also- to your point- because from the outside it looks like a super complicate thing to do. Turns out it's been a ton of work, but pretty straightforward. The actual toolpath generation voodoo was already there, I "just" needed to wrap it up with code to automatically find where to machine. That much is at least intuitively "easy" ("cut away everything that is in the stock AND not in the model").

It does make it somewhat confusing when there are still RT patches put up at kernel.org. I guess one would have to closely look into it and assess their usefulness in the context of Linuxcnc.

The sys patch is also included in the patchsets, so I guess that interface is used by projects\software other than Linuxcnc.

For anyone using the RPi images all that is used is the sys patch, not the full patchset. As per my kernel mentor royka.

Yeah,

Just like linux. For alway's open source.
Next step for China is setup their own ASML factory line.
Trump will go mad if hears about this.

Glorified search engines.

More TISM, not for the weak of heart or mind. Sorry I know it's off topic, but they very good at pointing out stupidity in the human race.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhvIAQ2Zt...JdqcmvrqqSj2hJgWo4Wz

Never seen that weird spelling

www.britannica.com/science/silicon

After an attempt to isolate silicon in 1808, Sir Humphry Davy proposed the name "silicium" for silicon, from the Latin silex, silicis for flint, and adding the "-ium" ending because he believed it to be a metal.

Which is kind of interesting.

Football is a regional thing, soccer is used in Australia or soc-her, football can mean AFL, Rugby League or Rugby Union, usually Rugby Union is called Rugby. AFL is most states of Australia, except Victoria, is know as Aerial Ping Pong.

To "Kiss someone's ring" in my country means to "kiss someone's arse".
Bending the knee is not a demonstration of of rebellion or whatever the woke mean it to be. It has always been associated with being knighted and showing respect to the King or Queen.

Cnut has many uses in Australia.
Old Cnut can be an insult or term of endearment.
F*****g Cnut is an insult.

BTW TISM are fantastic.

The question need to be asked different. 
What do you, the user expect? 

I did Design gmoccapy at the beginning just for me! 
I made the mistake to publish if?

So people come and ask for more safety (why is it possible to stop the spindle while milling) and I was blamed, because my GUI caused the breakage of the tool?

So development went on and other developers jumped in and did and do a very good job. 

So, what do you miss in gmoccapy? 
Why making stuff new from scratch? 
Why don't you just jump in and improve an existing GUI? 

Norbert