I have a CNC mill with a tool setter mounted on the table.
As my mill does not have an absolute encoder (neither glas scales nor rotary encoder)
I have to probe the precise Z location of the tripping point of the tool setter after each homing of the machine.
I added such a feature in a fork of probe_basic some time ago but then switched back to axis for other reasons.
My approach was:
Take the (rough) position of the tool setter from the configuration
Probe the tool setter with the spindle nose
Remove any tool
offset x by spindle_nose_diameter/2 to hit the tool setter with the ring of the spindle
Calculate a new value for "spindle_zero_height" based on the tool setter tripping point.
Is such a feature of value? If so I would like to integrate the changes into the current code base and create a PR.
I have a CNC mill with a tool setter mounted on the table. As my mill does not have an absolute encoder (neither glas scales nor rotary encoder) I have to probe the precise Z location of the tripping point of the tool setter after each homing of the machine.
I added such a feature in a fork of probe_basic some time ago but then switched back to axis for other reasons. My approach was:
Is such a feature of value? If so I would like to integrate the changes into the current code base and create a PR.
Regards Mark