Digitizing with uccnc and probe

[thegreatwaldo]

Hi
As a beginner with with uccnc I have a qustion. Is there a possibilty to use a probe to digitize an object and save to an stl file ?

thanks in advance

Andrew

[cncdrive]

You can digitize with the UCCNC.
The digitizing you can enable/start with the M40 macro and you can stop/disable it with the M41 macro.
When you call the M40 macro then all the G31 probed moves are registered, the coordinates for each touch is collected and stored.
When you call the M41 macro then the collected points coordinates are written into a point-cloud file.

The file the UCCNC creates is not an .stl, because .stl is a geometry file built from triangles, but CAD/CAM softwares can mostly handle, import point cloud files.

The point-cloud file format you can setup in the Tools/probe menu in the UCCNC.

[thegreatwaldo]

Thanks very much for the reply, I shall try it out. Best wishes Andrew

[ger21]

If you download the Mach3 demo, it has a probing wizard which will generate the code to do a "bed of nails" probing routine.
It should run in UCCNC, or maybe require very minor editing.

[thegreatwaldo]

Hi Gerry

I was aware of that and might give it a try. Balazs has pointed to the m40 macro. I'll try both and see which one works out. probe-it. Looks interesting. It would be nice if uccnc could do a similar plugin. Or maybe you could sort something out for your 2017 screen set that I got a while ago

Cheers
Andrew

Ps.I would just like to say thanks to everyone on the forum and Balasz for their help. It's rare these days to find a good quality product (uc100 in my case ) that works is well supported and reasonably priced. I'm just a beginner in this field but am slowly comming to grips with things thanks to everyones help.

[cncdrive]

Hi Andrew,

You are welcome and it's great to hear that you like the UCCNC and UC100.

And you may try also the Autoleveler plugin made by Cahit, it installs with the UCCNC and it can also make digitizing.
It has a bit more advanced functionality than just digitizing, because what it can do is you load a g-code file and then the plugin generates a g-code to digitize the area of the g-code file and when finished the digitizing it recalculates the g-code Z coordinates based on the digitized points fitting the g-code toolpath to the digitized surface.
So, I thought you might find this plugin also useful.

Here is a video about how it works:

[thegreatwaldo]

Hi Balasz
The post should read Digitizing with uccnc and probe, My mistake.

Cheers
Andrew

[thegreatwaldo]

Perhaps a UCCNC Surface Digitizing Wizard would be handy.

(;-) TP

Hi

That looks perfect, simple and practical. Please let me know when it ready

Cheers

Andrew

[epracefan@gmail.com]

Perhaps a UCCNC Surface Digitizing Wizard would be handy.

(;-) TP

Is this available? I'm planning to do some digitizing as soon as my probe is finished. Still waiting for a few parts to arrive though.

Ed

[Robertspark]

Is uccnc able to do combined axis g31 probing yet?

Thanks