Hello everyone.
I have seen many YouTube videos where people have 2 connector leads to auto set there z axis.
A wire lead would be clamped to the bit on the router and the other to a metallic object.
When to two object then come into contact with each other. The Z axis is at zero plain.
How can we do this with and Ramps 1.4 setup?
All items are from V1. I will be using this on a MPCNC setup.
Here is a youtube video of what I’m wanting to do.
I level my machine like I do with my 3D printer. Bottom out z and then crank itup by hand until a .025 feeler barely touches the bit. After that I square x and y to marks on my conduit that I made with a metric ruler. Fire up the machine and go.
I was using a pi and cnc.js for a minute and would send a G92 X0 Y0 Z0. But I found another project to use my pi for. Now I have a buck converter going from the PSU straight onto the ramps board with a toggle switch in between. Haven’t noticed a loss in quality just doing everything by hand
I’m not sure if you have to be using a firmware version that has the endstops enabled. But for the physical part, connect the wires to the Z endstop pins on the ramps board. Then issue a home z command, either through the lcd or repetier or other controller software. Then reset the Z value to account for the thickness of the touchplate. (I use G92 Zx.xx where x.xx is the thickness of my plate in repetier command line) But you could write a script, or use a command to store the thickness in firmware, but the command escapes me at the moment.
Do it just like Mike said.
You don’t need the endstop version of the firmware. I have the marlin from over a year ago and it works.
Thanks everyone.
I will give it a try and let you know the results
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