New Autoleveling PCB software

[Daedelus]

Absolutely,
This is one of the features on my list that I want to add.

I am aware that many 'PCBers' use different offsets for top and bottom, but personally I have never tried anything other than G54. If the original file is G55 for example then the additions made by Autoleveller should not affect this and G55 should be used in the output file as well but I haven't tested yet so I cannot confirm. It might be best to stick with G54 for everything currently. As you say though there should be an option to explicitly set the offset.

thanks,

[C_Bubba]

Another reason I bring fixtures up is that I do not use Mach or Linuxcnc as my controller. I use Turbocnc and it defaults to G53 on power up so when I used the test case last night, if I ran it on the machine, it would be in G53 until it hit the modified code portion after the probing sequence. I can easily put G5x in manually until you get it sorted out.
And if anybody else is reading this and wants to use Turbocnc, I have a customized version that captures the probing position for use in this software.

[Daedelus]

TurboCNC support is another feature on my list.

Quite a big list, but its good to know that people want and will use the additions.

[C_Bubba]

It was fairly easy to do (and I am NOT a programer!) I just added enough code to the G31 section to map the position data to the variables 2000-200x. Then I just use the a modified Mach post to generate the gcode.

Matter of fact in the original leveling software, linuxcnc and mach shared the same post.

[Daedelus]

Ive not looked into it yet but if the variables are the only things which need changing then it should be easy to support TurboCNC directly from the software. Good going.

[C_Bubba]

Box stock Turbocnc does NOT map the position to variables. I had to add that to the code and re compile.
As far as I know, there are only a three or four copies in existence that will map to the variables. I think I sent one to an acquaintance and I have three on various systems here at the house.

[Daedelus]

OK, so there might not be much thats possible from the Autoleveller side in this respect then. I'll have a look at TurboCNC at some point anyway and see if theres anything else I can do to support it apart from fixture selection as per your original suggestion.

Good work on the custom TurboCNC version. BTW