DDSCV1.1 3 and 4 axis offline motion controller

[Boyan Silyavski]

You can change any parameter on screen. But you can have a setup file at the same time, that can just be loaded. So both things work perfectly and cover different scenarios.

[cropwell]

You can change any parameter on screen. But you can have a setup file at the same time, that can just be loaded. So both things work perfectly and cover different scenarios.

So how is parameter #115 dealt with (I am beginning to think the manual is telling lies) ?

[Boyan Silyavski]

So how is parameter #115 dealt with (I am beginning to think the manual is telling lies) ?

Whats this #115? i cant see it in manual and my machine is busy for a couple of hours so i can not stop it now to look for it.

But as i said, you either input it manually or upload a text file. Thats it

[Boyan Silyavski]

I dont see any reason messing with uploading, except if you are a machine producer and upload the same file to a bunch of machines

[Will_D]

So how is parameter #115 dealt with (I am beginning to think the manual is telling lies) ?

It is mentioned in the 2.1 manual here:
http://www.nvcnc.net/pdf/NVCNC_DDCSV2_EN.pdf

There are also a couple of new parameters there as well.

[/ranton] HOWEVER why in the name of Babbage does the version 2.1 manual still use screen shots of an ancient 1.1 version that does not even show the Machine co-ordinates? Are they taking the piss out of us!!
[/rantoff]

Ah thats better

Will ( a very mad modder)

[Will_D]

Having read this thread from end to end (ignoring a lot of the ranting and raving) I have a serious question about tool probing.

I have seen the video showing probing working as expecetd (!!)

It is not working for me.

I have tried to understand the parameters involved:

Parameter #68 Has 3 value 0 Disabled, 1: Mode 1, 2: Mode 2. Anyone have a definition of what these mean?

Parameter #69 Thickness: Ok I understand this one (But I though there was a reference to the controller measuring the tool sensor height)

Parameter #70 Signal Level: Again OK

Parameter #71 Initial Tool Position: If set to 1 machine heads off to Machine Home (as set in MACH workspace) If set to 0 nothing happens in X and Y.

Params #72, 73, 74 Define offsets from the Machine Home if #71 == 1

Parameter #75 sets the retract distance after probing. Understood but as probing doesn't work ...

Todays experiment:

Fit a simple touch plate and wire it in.

Confirm that if #68 == 0 nothing happens.

Set #68 to 1 and 2 and see what happens!

In either mode 1 or 2 state, On starting the probe cycles, it descends slowly, touches the touch plate, pauses and then retracts in the Z+ direction very slowly and then it never stops!!

Totally different behavious to the video where after the contact and brief pause the tool quickly rises to the retract distance.

Please help what am I doing wrong?

[Will_D]

So I have been looking at probe.nc as installed

Attached is the original version (with Chinese comments)

Unbelievably I managed to translate the Chinese!!

https://www.google.ie/search?q=chine...hrome&ie=UTF-8

Attatched is the English version

No wonder the spindle rise to infinity and beyond: "G91 G01 Z1000 F5"

@Boyan and Benedikt: Is this the same file as on your working system??

[Will_D]

As it was such fun translating the Chinese I decided to have a go at slib.nc.

If this is actually used by the controller (as I'm sure the probe.nc is used) then it shows that the controller can handle very sofisticate g-code and a simple sert of language constructions/data variables/trig functions/macro calls etc.

Attatched is the translation with a bit of re-formatting

English_probe.txt

[Bubbles]

Where you able to get the probe function to work?
It works for me until I clip on to the tool.
Just touching the 2 probe leads together seems to work, but when I clip either lead on the tool it just goes down and stops/binds up.

[Will_D]

No not yet!!