Probing guide ?

[Carboncnc]

Good morning,

I did actually post this to Facebook too but without any help at all.

I just wonder if there is a guide for the probing page in UCCNC, last weekend I had a few
hours tinkering around a bit and got some very strange results or even no results at all.

So is there something more detailed than the help page in UCCNC ?

[dezsoe]

What do you want to do? What kind of probe(s) do you have?

[Carboncnc]

First of all I want to setup the M31 macro, so that I can use my topcom.cz touchprobe to measure the tool lenght. I have edited the macro with machine cordinates but I always get a "softlimit" error when activating the probe command when it retracts the Z all the way up as I want it to do, it moves the Z axis up and just stops due to the softlimit.

I have my probe at the machine X0 so the Y axis doesnt matter at all as I have a moving table on my machine and the probe is mounted on the frame of the machine and not the table.

here is my edited M31 part here I have the Y axis set to 150 just to testing.

//M31 probing macro

double probeX = 1;
double probeY = 150;
double Zmin = -10;
double FeedrateFast = 300;
double FeedrateSlow = 50;
double SafeZ = 100;
double retractheight = 5;
double retractforsecondmeasurement = 1;

bool domoveXY = true; //Enable XY movement
bool dodualcycle = true; //Do probing from 2 cycles, first with Fast and second with Slow feedrates

Wouldnt it be better to have G53 Z0 as safeZ instead of a variable value in this macro ?