terjeio
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3 years ago Another question while I was looking at e.g. Estlcam that you can make a edge finding and measure the angle of the workpiece, so that the G-Code will be „rotated“ to match the workpiece. This would be much easier when you could mount the Workpiece on the surface without the high accuracy you would normally need...
See issue #94 for edge version with gcode rotation.
here is a long winded video of me bumbling through some testing. I didn't test edge finding prior to today. Corner finding works well, as does center finding. I'm guessing you didn't put much time into edge finding and there are some easy fixes.
https://youtu.be/NthS9aIBZzg
It seems that for edge probing it uses some of the corner parameters in unclear ways, for instance the x/y offset seems to control the pull off distance. It is also unclear if the probing distance in the 2nd from the top box controls the probe distance or if the offset in the bottom box controls the distance for edge probing.
Here is an example where g92 was set somehow but not by the settings I had configure and I had a "crash"
Here g92 gets set again but not based on my input
Here I forgot to reset the diameter since the settings need a few click to persist and get lost when you switch tabs (or maybe I restarted?)
Here I am not sure what coordinates are being used and the dro values are not helping. Maybe a feature request: can you track the coordinate system and other things like absolute vs relative mode and have them display in all tabs? I would also like to see the DRO in the probing tab, if the DRO could display the current WCS that would be great!
Here is an example of the GUI crashing. It did this many times in a row while I was attempting to record this and the crashing is what motivated me to record it in the first place. Once I finally got the recording setup decent it stopped crashing. The audio is very bad because I had the wrong mic setup.