Touch Probe
From PROBOTIX :: wiki
http://www.craftycnc.com/touch-probes/
http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Touch_Probe
http://www.timeguy.com/cradek/01262579508
http://lab.whitequark.org/notes/2014-07-06/g38-probing-workpieces-in-linuxcnc/
http://www.scorchworks.com/Blog/auto-probing-with-g-code-ripper/
http://www.scorchworks.com/Gcoderipper/gcoderipper.html
LinuxCNC is distributed with gridprobe.ngc and smartprobe.ngc
http://www.deepgroove1.com/probe/probe.htm (appears to no longer be making probes)
( gridprobe.ngc )
( Rectangular Probing )
( )
( This program repeatedly probes in a regular XY grid and writes the )
( probed location to the file 'probe-results.txt' in the same directory )
( as the .ini file )
(Configuration section)
G20 (Inches)
F4 (probe speed)
#1=0 (X start)
#2=.25 (X increment)
#3=13 (X count)
#4=0
#5=.25
#6=5 (Y count)
#7=.1 (Z safety)
#8=-.5 (Z probe)
(End configuration section)
(PROBEOPEN probe-results.txt)
#9=0 #10=0
G0Z#7
O1 while [#9 lt #6]
#10=0
G0 Y[#4+#5*#9]
O2 while [#10 lt #3]
O3 if [[#9/2] - fix[#9/2] eq 0]
G0X[#1+#2*#10]
O3 else
G0X[#1+#2*[#3-#10-1]]
O3 endif
G38.2Z#8
G0Z#7
#10=[#10+1]
O2 endwhile
#9=[#9+1]
O1 endwhile
(PROBECLOSE)
G0Z#7
G0X#1Y#4
M2
(probe-hole.ngc) O<probe-hole> sub G20 F25 #1000=#1 ;max radius G91 G38.3 Z.00001 #1001=#5061 #1002=#5062 G91 G38.2 X#1000 #1003=#5061 G90 G0 X#1001 G91 G38.2 X[0-#1000] #1004=#5061 #1001=[[#1003+#1004]/2] G90 G0 X#1001 G91 G38.2 Y#1000 #1005=#5062 G90 G0 Y#1002 G91 G38.2 Y[0-#1000] #1006=#5062 #1002=[[#1005+#1006]/2] G90 G0 Y#1002 G91 G38.2 X#1000 #1003=#5061 G90 G0 X#1001 G91 G38.2 X[0-#1000] #1004=#5061 #1001=[[#1003+#1004]/2] G90 G0 X#1001 G91 G38.2 Y#1000 #1005=#5062 G90 G0 Y#1002 G91 G38.2 Y[0-#1000] #1006=#5062 #1002=[[#1005+#1006]/2] G90 G0 Y#1002 F0.1 G90 G0 X[#1003-0.005] G91 G38.2 X0.010 #1003=#5061 G90 G0 X[#1004+0.005] G91 G38.2 X-0.010 #1004=#5061 #1001=[[#1003+#1004]/2] G90 G0 X#1001 G90 G0 Y[#1005-0.005] G91 G38.2 Y0.010 #1005=#5062 G90 G0 Y[#1006+0.005] G91 G38.2 Y-0.010 #1006=#5062 #1002=[[#1005+#1006]/2] G90 G0 Y#1002 G91 G1 F1 X[0-#5071] Y[0-#5072] G90 #1007=[#1003-#1004+[6.0/25.4]] #1008=[#1005-#1006+[6.0/25.4]] #1009=[[#1007+#1008]/2] #1010=[atan[#1002]/[#1001]] #1011=[sqrt[[#1001*#1001]+[#1002*#1002]]] (debug,Dia #1009 Ang #1010 Dist #1011) O<probe-hole> endsub
( smartprobe.ngc )
( Rectangular Probing )
( )
( This program repeatedly probes in a regular XY grid and writes the )
( probed location to the file 'probe-results.ngc' in the same directory )
( as the .ini file )
(Configuration section)
G20 (Inches)
F20 (probe speed)
#1=-1 (X start)
#2=.04 (X increment)
#3=51 (X count)
#4=-1
#5=.04
#6=51 (Y count)
#7=1.1 (Z safety)
#8=-.1 (Z probe)
(End configuration section)
(LOGOPEN,probe-results.ngc)
#9=0 #10=0
G0Z#7
O1 while [#9 lt #6]
#10=0
G0 Y[#4+#5*#9]
O2 while [#10 lt #3]
O3 if [[#9/2] - fix[#9/2] eq 0]
#11=[#1+#2*#10]
O3 else
#11=[#1+#2*[#3-#10-1]]
O3 endif
(#11 is X target)
#5070=1
O4 while [#5070 NE 0]
G38.5 z#7
G38.3 x#11
O4 endwhile
G38.2Z#8
(LOG,G1 X#5061 Y#5062 Z#5063)
#10=[#10+1]
O2 endwhile
G0Z#7
#9=[#9+1]
O1 endwhile
(LOGCLOSE)
G0Z#7
G0X#1Y#4
M2
