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Oh well. I fixed it. Thanks for the suggestions but i couldn't narrow it down. I reset the whole system and reconfigured the VFD. Now everything runs smoothly. Thanks anyways. Always really glad to know there is a crowd out there being as helpful as you are. Cheers and have a wonderful weekend. I ha...

Hey guys, this is almost too embarrassing, but i cant get it to work. I've just upgraded my spindle to a water-cooled one. Set the parameters accordingly in the VFD (the cheap Huanyang one) and the wizard. Now i can run the spindle in manual mode no problem. In manual mode i get a warning telling me...

Okay, my initial post was more detailed but i forgot to save the draft and got logged out, so here is the light version: You are absolutely right: my macro is still not set up correctly. instead of G92 Z[0+[#9071]] ;Set Z position to 0 + detector height stored in parameter 71 - material thickness it...

Sure, tool lengths vary after each change... my thoughts would be that it cloud just override after each touch off. At least thats how it worked on my previous setup running LinuxCNC. Now back to square 1.5... I only have a fixed sensor. I usually setup my XYZ 0s is with an analoge probe similar to ...

Aye, you can really find all the answers on here, just have to know where to look! So thanks for the pointer Mr. Shawn! Writing the macro was not as difficult as i thought. I modified one of the examples which looked promising initially BUT! I just tried to mill my first operation, simple 2d surfaci...

Tried it and It worked! Thanks for the hint.

Raph.

Hello dear folks, first time poster here. I've successfully converted my trusty "old" router to an acorn board (perviously running LinuxCNC). Took a while but I finally got everything neatly running. Now its time to set everything up for a nice workflow. Im running ab ER20 collet with fixe...

Nigelo wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 12:07 pm You need to email swissi at his address shown at the foot of each his posts on this forum


Well worth using and I wouldn't be without it

Aye! Thanks for the info.

Dear Swissi, just stumbled across ProbeApp! Really want to try is, probably helps a lot for someone who sucks at writing macros - been struggling for hours now to get it done properly. But, I don't know where to start with the files on GitHub. Where do i find the ProbeApp-Setup.msi file? Cheers, Raph