Tool Length Sensor

[tuffduck]

Thanks for the reply. The second picture in the thread you just posted here, I have never seen.
I am a woodworker, not a machine builder. I have created thousands of programs for cutting and carving wood but I have never written machine scripts.
Is you app to create a variable table of codes to use to create a working macro? If so, why not just have it write the macro itself? Why not include a link or a video on creating the macro using the information from your app, step by step?
Look at from my point of view...You are Steven Hawking and I am in Grade 3 asking you what is a star?

[cncsnw]

It sounds like the program that is loaded when you press Cycle Start is not the probing program generated by ProbeApp, but instead is a previous machining program.

Always look at the current Job Name displayed at the top right of the screen before you press Cycle Start.

[Nigelo]

Tuffduck, I think Swissi identified the cause of your unwanted Spindle start a few posts back when he said he had
"looked at your modified mfunc6.mac file and noticed you uncommented the alternative M225 command but you did not comment out the default M225 command. That means you are getting two prompts now to insert the tool."

By leaving both M225 commands active, I believe pressing Cycle Start on the 2nd M225 (Line 40) is somehow confirming the end of the 1st M225 (Line 37) as if you had completed the toolsetter and therefore starting the Spindle. Clearly you cannot have both M225s enabled and therefore MUST be corrected - Its either line 37 or line 40 not both.

Therefore go back and place a semi-colon in front of the 2nd M225 (line 40) to comment it out, save the file and rerun your tests. If this succeeds, you can try reversing the option by commenting out line 37 and UNcommenting line 40.

hope this helps but do report back

[tuffduck]

Thanks.
Okay commented that line out and ran ProbeApp. Here are screen shots of what took place. At no point did the machine move.

[swissi]

Thanks.
Okay commented that line out and ran ProbeApp. Here are screen shots of what took place. At no point did the machine move.

These screenshots don't make any sense. What exactly where your expectations what the ProbeApp should do here?

Can you please add information to each screenshot describing exactly which selection you made and which button you pressed to get to this screenshot.

Can you please also answer the following questions:

• Have you successfully run any jobs on this machine or have you just converted this machine to Acorn/CNC12?

• What type of machine is this and what type of spindle/tool holders does it have?

• If you want to use the Single TT method of the Tool Setter, can you post a screen shot of the Configuration page you made for that cycle?

Assuming this is a Router with a Spindle that doesn't have fixed tool holding and you want to use the Tool Setter to measure Tool Height Offsets, have you looked at this Guide here?.

-swissi

[tuffduck]

The machine was completed in July 2020. We have ran approximately 300 programs since then, machining mainly wood and Corian. We use Vectric Aspire to create the drawings and toolpaths. I have attached pictures of the machine and spindle. I am hoping to use the probe as a dual. First measurement taken from the top of the workpiece and the second from a fixed location at the front right hand corner.

The goal is to be able to run a program using multiple tools call ProbeApp for tool measurement when there is a tool change required.

[tuffduck]

When I press the ProbeApp icon I receive this popup window.

[tuffduck]

If I press the Tool Setter Icon, I get this window.

[tuffduck]

After I select the Single TT Method and close the Popups I have this message on the main screen.

[tuffduck]

Once the Cycle Start Button is pressed, this is shown briefly on the screen (Cancel is spelled wrong)