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So I'm a good bit further in setting up my machine...
and everything's moving and seems to be starting to work as it should.

homing works nicely too (I have NPN Inductive limit/home switches on all axis)...
When I tap on "HOME ALL" the machine home's and sets the Machine coords to Zero and all Axis turn "Green".
So apparently "homing" works.


then I wanted to see if I can use a leftover Induction proximity switch as a tool-length sensor / probing... before I go ahead and machine a spring loaded pusher/housing etc...
So I wired up the Proximity switch to the UBB Port 12... I12... and I can trigger it - diag shows it ... etc..
I then configured the probe to that port 12 - and again diag "sees the probe"...

BUT here's where I run into an issue I don't understand:
When on the Probing screen I finally tap on "Start Probing" - I get an error messag:

"The Machine has was not yet homed!"

and yes, I've actually "HOMED ALL" just before...

what am I doing wrong here?

thanks!

You have an axis that is enabled but not homed. Or else, you have a slaved axis and an old version of UCCNC (older than 1.2112 which has an old version of the probing plugin).

dezsoe wrote:You have an axis that is enabled but not homed. Or else, you have a slaved axis and an old version of UCCNC (older than 1.2112 which has an old version of the probing plugin).

Thanks - I'll check it tomorrow... I think there's a chance another axis is enabled ...

Old Version: nope.... I've just downloaded UCCNC a few days ago from the official website... so I assume this is the latest version

OK, that is the latest stable release now. You may update the probing plugin from here. It has some bug fixes.

dezsoe wrote:OK, that is the latest stable release now. You may update the probing plugin from here. It has some bug fixes.

Thanks a lot for that info...
I'll make sure to update it once I'm at the shop...

I am presently on Probing 1.3.2.0

Should I be updating to that beta version?

Yes, because it has some important bug fixes.

(I left it to be beta, because in my programs when the beta flag is turned on then it creates a log file. If something wrong happens then the log file contains all information. The log file is deleted on next startup, so it takes no disk space.)

just to let you know

it was indeed that I had an Axis (A, which is present on the controller, but not installed on the actual machine yet) enabled...

did the update and disabled A.. homed everythng and now probing works charmingly well...


thanks again