Why are you messing around with macros if you can just use the ProbeApp.Mkelcy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 1:44 pm I came over from the "Tool Setting Options For Router and Mills" thread. I've looked at Sword's corner setting macro and see that it calls for the probe to be tripped on PLC input 5. Is that the same as the Acorn input 5? The Acorn probe setup guide (and my machine) are setup for the probe tripped signal to be on input 7, which Centriod calls PLC input 7. Should I edit the macro to call for the probe triggered input to be on PLC input 7?
The macro, so far as I can tell, seems to be finding the center of a hole in the detection plate
I'd like to take Sword's macro and modify it to work with the detection plate shown below. Imagine it flipped over and snugged up against the lower left hand corner of a work piece. I'd like to find part X0 and Y0 by jogging over the detector, setting Z0 and then probing in the minus direction to the X "wall" and subtracting half a user specified tool diameter from the probed X to get to part X0, moving positive along X an inch or so, and then probing in the minus direction to the Y "wall" and subtracting half a user specified tool diameter from the probed Y position to arrive at a part Y0. The tool diameter would be supplied each time the macro was run.
I think I can get there, but the first step is to try to understand Sword's macro.
The depths of my ignorance on G-code programming can barely be measured, but I am working on trying to get a basic understanding.
The ProbeApp has a Square Plate Cycle specifically designed for this Avid Touch plate and it also has a cycle for the plate that Charlie has with the bore.
-swissi