New Autoleveling PCB software

[Daedelus]

OK so I have done a bit of testing and fixing.

First of all I opened the levelled file in cambam. This is what I got:



The red lines are the probing routine. The probe points need to cover the design for levelling to take place. So, in the image, the design is on the negative side of X, whereas the probes are on the positive side. The probe values should be something like:
X = -37
Y = 0
X length = 37
Y length = 20

Then the probes should cover the design. As I said, this is done automatically in the new version so you dont need to worry about the probe settings.

However... This will not fix the divide by zero error because version 0.5 seems to struggle with negative coordinates. I have generated and attached the levelled file generated with version 0.7 (not yet released) if you want to try it.

best,

[C_Bubba]

Daedelus,
How is the progress, it sounded like you were close? I was looking forward to testing the next version:})

[Daedelus]

Good timing Art,

The new version is now available for download (version 0.7) at www.autoleveller.co.uk.

I have made many changes, improvements and fixes, including:

• Supports inches and millimeters. Inches or millimeters is now automatically taken from the input file
• Saved filenames add a pre-cursor "AL" at the beginning as default and the extension is changed to be more appropriate for the chosen control software
• Checking of probe settings to ensure they are in a number format
• Parser stores additional states from the input GCode file
• Probe settings filled in automatically from the input file
• Reads and displays the extremities of the input file when it is first selected
• Displays stats for the probing data such as the number of probes that will be used in the output file. Changing certain values such as the 'probe spacing' (then 'tabbing out' of the field) will automatically adjust the stats. The user can try to optimize the probe count like this
• Added an about box with the version number and a clickable link to this site
• Set the spindle speed to a default value of 20000 to ensure 'M3' GCode works. 20000 will not overwrite any further speed settings
• Button to clear all probe settings
• Bug fix: Occasional divide by zero error
• Added pre-amble copy write text to the output file
• Warns if the milling area is not contained within the probing area. However, it is perfectly legal to change the probing extremities so that the milling area is larger or smaller than the probing area. You may do this if, for example, only a small proportion of the design needs to be levelled
• Core levelling code changed to provide greater robustness
• Several changes to the GUI layout

This same list is available at my website, as is the software download of course

Any problems let me know.
Enjoy.

Note: Whilst the probe settings are automatically filled in from the input file, feel free to make any manual post adjustments to the settings.

[C_Bubba]

Good Morning,
This is great news and I guess my plans for most of today have now changed:})
Look forward to trying it out and I really like what I see so far.

Thanks.

[Daedelus]

This thread seems to have dried up in the last few months but I am now on version 0.7.7 and have released the Java source code for it.

Due to the number of comments on my page, I have added a forum. This will give users more options when discussing the autoleveller software. Please feel free to use: http://www.autoleveller.co.uk/forum/ for future autoleveller discussions and/or other stuff.

Thanks.

[Daedelus]

Edit: That forum URL is www.cncsoftwaretools.com/forum.
The main Autoleveller site can still be found at www.autoleveller.co.uk.

enjoy