It’s little complicated cause I’m beginner… but I think I’m understand.
G92 Z10
So now the board know that the Z plane is to 10mm
… but now, If I want to engrave for example 2 mm im my material,
I must tell to the Estlcam that must engrave 2mm or 12mm (that is 10+2) ?
As far as I am aware this is configured as default in the V1 Marlin firmware so all you need to do is connect the touch plate to the Z-Min End stop Signal and Ground pins on the board.
Yes… but I think that the Marlin firmware inside of SKR that I buy from V1 is programmed with a .5mm plate.
Maybe I’ll put your commands from the LCD menu.
Marlin isn’t calibrated with any particular sized touch plate. The only difference between between using the 0.5mm plate and the 10mm one is the G92 command that you give the machine.
Just a word of caution. It’s not an exact dimensions so carefully measure it when you get it. Also the center is quite thin material and if you would forget to attach the clip to the v bit it will punch a hole right through it.
Hypothetically, I would have never done something like that
Not sure if this would be useful, but got a cheap probe before this shop sold theirs and I wanted to make it lower profile. Quick print to sort out the problem
Thanks a lot, but I have send it back the one of Amazon
and I make one by my self.
This one have only 0.2mm and I don’t must to send that commands because for now it’s work.
Moving onto the other part of my noobie lowrider series of post!
I want to touch off my tool.
Don’t believe I wanna have the post processor do it automatically but, I’m having a hard time understanding the. Values. Generally speaking on the machines I run at work z+ is all the way up to home zo. One we touch off the top of the stock then you have a. G54 offset z-12.00 (example).
From there any z value we give in the program will be off of that z0 and will be a negative value below to the top of the stock for your cut depth.
If I want to just touch off the end I’ll
Manually with my
Select probe z
Clamp on the endmill
Controller I have, jog it down to to almost to the touching and then bump the plate?
Noticed when I went to probe z offset I can turn the dial positive or negative z value??
Now that you contacted the plate
Where can I see the value stored for the z zero?
I used @Flyfisher604 post processor and believe it was set to .2mm ? Is there anywhere else I can variety the offset is stored on this controller?
The home position is at the top, but stock V1 firmware assigns an arbitrary high position to home (200mm, IIRC) yours would be set to 100mm, probably reasonable.
Marlin firmware is starting to be able to deal with workspace coordinates but we usually just reassign the machine coordinates with G92. A typical probe sequence would assign Z to be whatever height that your touch ate thickness is.
If you do have soft stops enabled, this is no longer stock V1 firmware, so I have to guess at what other modifications are there. G38.2 Z0 should probe down and stop at contact. You might be able to work with workspace coordinates like you’re used to. I use workspace coordinates on my machine with Reprap Firmware, but never did with Marlin.