ProbeApp for Centroid CNC12

ProbeApp for Mill & Routers that integrates with Centroid CNC12


Project maintained by swissi2000 Hosted on GitHub Pages — Theme by mattgraham

Web Probing Cycle

Description

Find the center of a Web. This probing cycle is not available for CNC12 Free.

Implementation Details

Four possible starting positions are available for the Web Probing Cycle: Left, Right, Front or Back. The probe needs to be placed at the selected position. The Z-Height has to be set at the level the measurements needs to be taken outside the Web.

The probe will make the following moves and measurements:

At the end of the probing cycle, the probe will be at the center of the Web and the Web-Width will be displayed:

Note that this message can be surpressed if “Set WCS after probing” is checked and the configuration settings have been made to skip the measurement display. See Configuration Options for details.

If “Set WCS after probing” was checked, the WCS reset message will be displayed:

Note that this message can also be surpressed if a direct WCS reset is desired withou a prior WCS Reset Info message display. See Configuration Options for details.

Probing Parameters

Web Width

The Web Width specifies the approximate width of the Web and is being used by the probing cycle to calculate the distance the probe needs to move to measure the opposite side of the boss. Be generous with this amount and rather error on the plus side rather than being too small.

If this amount is too small, the probe will be tripped while trying to move down on Z to get to the probing height. When this happens, the retry cycle will be activated that will advance the probe in increments until it’s clear to drop down on Z. Should the retry cycle hit any limits (e.g Probing Search Distance or travel limit) the probing cycle will be aborted with an error message.

Z-Clearance Amount

The Z-Clearance Amount specifies the distance the probe needs to move up on Z from the start point to traverse the boss to get to the opposite side. Be generous with this amount and rather error on the plus side rather than being too low.

If this amount is too small, the probe will be tripped while trying to traverse the boss. When this happens, the retry cycle will be activated that will advance the probe in increments until it has enough clearing height to traverse. Should the retry cycle hit any limits (e.g Probing Search Distance or travel limit) the probing cycle will be aborted with an error message.

Set WCS after probing

If the WCS box is checked, at least one of the Axis needs to be checked too. By default, WCS 0 for the axis will be set at the center of the bore hole for the currently Active WCS.

Both axis allow to set WCS 0 at an Offset from the center if needed. For an offset in the negative axis direction, a negative value needs to be entered.

Note that the available WCS numbers depend on the version of CNC12:

Any of the available WCS # can be selected to be reset by the probing cycle.

Start the Probing Cycle

After making all the selections necessary on the screen, pressing the START button will start the parameter validation. A message will be displayed if any of the parameters are missing or invalid

If no validation issues have been found, the ProbeApp will write all the necessary probing commands to

c:\cncm\ncfiles\probing_cycle.cnc

The ProbeApp will close giving control back to CNC12

At this point the Probing Cycle can be started by pressing Cycle Start or aborted with Cycle Cancle.

Closing ProbeApp without a Probing Cycle selections

The Probing Cycle screen can be closed by either pressing the X on the top right corner of the window or pressing the Green Back Arrow on the top left. This will open the ProbeApp main window where the Exit button can be pressed.

Control will go back to CNC12 where this message will be displayed:

Pressing Cycle Cancle will terminate the cycle immediately. Pressing Cycle Start will bring up this message:

Pressing Cycle Start at this point will also terminate the cycle.

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