qtdragon - probing issues

I have been playing with basic_probe in qtdragon_hd in 2.9. So far everything seems to be working pretty good. I did notice that that there is a much longer pause between each segment of the moves to probe than there is under qtdragon in 2.4.8. Is that by design or just the way it is in the new environment. I'm just doing hobby stuff so it is not really an issue. Just curios.

Is there a way to get a version number for qtdragon_hd that I am using so I can tell it from what ever the latest version is?

Thank You
John

Just noticed something really odd. I just probed the left front corner of a piece of stock while in G54. Everything looked fine while probing but when finished the X & Y were not zero in G54. They were X=-0.9260 Y=1.4609. I am working in inches.. I was using the outside corners screen. Any ideas?

Thanks
John

JohnnyCNC wrote:

Just noticed something really odd. I just probed the left front corner of a piece of stock while in G54. Everything looked fine while probing but when finished the X & Y were not zero in G54. They were X=-0.9260 Y=1.4609. I am working in inches.. I was using the outside corners screen. Any ideas?

Thanks
John

 

Cockpit error.  That is what the Auto Zero button is for.  Back to testing. Or should I say learning  I do like HD better than the non-HD qtdragon.
 

longer pause is probably because of the way we are feeding one line of MDI to linuxcnc at a time rather then calling a complete OWord subroutine. May be able to tweak it a bit better.

There currently is no version number.

What about hd do you like better?

The biggest improvment for me is that the touch screen is more accurate. In my old setup I changed the screen resolution so that qtdragon filled the screen and made the buttons and text a little bigger. The problem was that this caused the touch points to be a little off. Now that I am using the native screen resolution the touch screen is real accurate. I also like "Move to G30" button. I used to use G28 to take the machine to what I call the park position where it sits when not in use. Now I use G30 and can just press the button.

Right now I am trying to get my Z probe to save the Z value adjusted by probe length in parameter #4003. I use this value later in my M6 remap.

I also like the UTILS functions. Facing in particular. Why is there no depth of cut on that screen? I think it would be really trick if you could just enter the tool number you want to use and have it get the parameters from the tool table.

Yes my touch screen is not calibrated quite right - so fussy to get the button you want.
either version can add macro buttons - I think up to ten - so you could add a g28 button too.

Which probe Z (basic probe? screen probe button?) do you want to set #4003 ?

I believe the idea was to use a preloaded tool and set the depth before starting the program to keep it simple.
but yes options could be added such as tool selection so then diameter could be pulled from the tool file. also a 'start/finish here' button for X and Y width would be interesting.

I think a helical endmill hole enlarging utility would be very useful, I've wished for it a couple times.

But at the moment, just getting what's there confirmed working is time consuming.