I am working on modification of Probe Screen by Serguei Glavatski (c) 2015
This modification moved the icons from one window to containers with switchable vertical tabs.





 







I have a control panel made on the machine.
Unfortunately, I have a display with a low resolution.
So I have to save space on the screen. That's why I used switchable vertical tabs.

At the moment, the Gmoccapy screen is huge, because there is a bug:
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues/3611

What do you think about GTK little probe?

I'm using an old version for modification, if you're interested in the current version, check here:
- vers.ge/en/blog/useful-articles/probe-screen-v28
- github.com/verser-git/probe_screen_v2.9  

Did you have a video or a link you meant to post? What are we talking about?

And I know we have very differing opinions on the RPi5.


Maybe it's time for an old skool Flame War

Cheapest I could find on AliExpress was 180 AUD still way above what I've paid for a RPi5 locally, even if I add the RPi power supply.
The RPi is brand new and unused.
And to tell the truth the RPi5 works really really well.

But yeah the BC-250 does look interesting.

Songs like you still have a tool length offset active while probing

Yes I have checked & that is the case. I should have realised.

Thanks.

PS is there a way that when the macro ends it tells LinuxCNC to go back into man mode?
...... Actually now I think about it is it possible to have a usb button that sets it back to man mode.

Alex
 

Hi,

I am using my ATC spindle with a tool setter. Z0 is at the top of the machine.

The Spindle Nose is probed at -202mm (so, entered as 202mm in the GUI).

When probing the tool (measured with a caliper to be around 57mm), it triggers at around -145mm. However, the GUI reports it as 120mm Long. Is there something I can tweak?

Upgraded to deb12 and machine set up great. However when I load a work file I get a weird pattern.  The file is one that I've used many times.

No, unfortunately, I don't know anything about that. I bought a non-working machine with these rulers installed on it. In order not to buy others and save money, I thought that maybe I could use them.

That's what GPT chat told me.)))))))

Haven't been on the forum for a while ... I use FreeCAD quite frequent and I am active in the FC forum. It has done major leaps forward with the 1.0 release. TNP is not fully solved, but much better. Yes, FreeCAD requires patience to learn, has a steep learning curve and you need to be aware of its traps. But it has become a very powerful CAD/CAM/FEM/... package. Du to its Python capability and functional openness, you can do wild things using Python and if needed, program it to your needs (incl. the CAM side). I am coming from the Sketchup and Fusion side, and switched to FreeCAD. I still use Sketchup to design and build furniture (also tables, benches etc. for my job shop, also did my exterior and interior house design with it), but for all the mechanical stuff I switched to FreeCAD (incl. CAM). For electronic stuff I use KiCAD, but compared to FreeCAD quite seldom.

You would need to know the signals levels.
Do you have a full data sheet?

It might work with the common Heidenhain "EXE" boxes 
which are sine/cosine interpolators with digital quadrature outputs

I've already installed the QTVCP panel and it works fine, but could you also share the Vismach file so I can see the simulation?