Probe_basic issues

Hi I'm Michael and new to LinuxCNC.

Formely I worked with MPCNC with Estlcam. Now I'm building up a Sorotec CompactLine0605, named Helena. (so pretty everybody wants her!)
For my Touchscreen I decided to run Probe Basic. But there are some questions:

1. Probe Basic comes up with the Conversational Tab but I want to start with the File Tab. How is that done?
2. The Touch off current tool button works with my file helena.var. The parameters #5181, #5182, #5183 represents the toolsensor position x,y,z. But which parameter represents the height of my toolsensor (40mm)? I couldn`t figure it out.

Thanx
mightymike

Hi John,

thank you for your reply.
I have the Debian-RT-2.8 image from LinuxCNC.org installed. Probe_basic is preinstalled in that image.
Do you mean with the main python file /usr/bin/qtvcp?

But there is no variable tabWidget in that script. Where can I put your suggested line in? Where do I find the index for the special tab?

And do you have an idea for my other question - toolsensor height?

Greetz from Germany
Mike

Y E S !!
Thank you John! You're great! So many hours...

I found it under ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/probe_basic/probe_basic.ui
In line 239:
<property name="currentIndex">
<number>7</number> *** where 7 is the conversational_tab. I changed it to 1 (main_tab)

Many thanks
Mike