Probe-it / any users ?

[m_c]

What exactly are you trying to probe?
A full surface, or a perimeter?

Probe-it's strength is perimeter probing, be that probing the complete perimeter, or finding an edge/centre.
The surface probing is more suited to things like PCB machining, where you probe the material surface to apply a transformation to the g-code so you get constant depth machining.

If you're wanting to do surface probing, you'd be better of looking at Art's Digitise Wizard plugin that uses a bed of nails approach to probe the entire surface. It's not the fastest method though.

[dudz]

What exactly are you trying to probe?
A full surface, or a perimeter?

Probe-it's strength is perimeter probing, be that probing the complete perimeter, or finding an edge/centre.
The surface probing is more suited to things like PCB machining, where you probe the material surface to apply a transformation to the g-code so you get constant depth machining.

If you're wanting to do surface probing, you'd be better of looking at Art's Digitise Wizard plugin that uses a bed of nails approach to probe the entire surface. It's not the fastest method though.

I am trying to probe perimeters and surfaces, although I am testing the software by probing a surface. I can probe the surface once successfully, but before it returns to probe the surface again, I get errors like " Move, Give up sync" and then if I continue I get "Error file already open" . So I clear it, and then get "The current point is less than 0.254mm or 0.01" from the programmed point".

I understand this has something to do with the motion controller. But I dont know how to get around this.

[m_c]

Have you tried emailing Eric?

He gave me a good few pointers to get going. I did have one issue when using certain firmware in my KFlop, but the later versions all seem fine. I think the problem related to Mach changing how certain things worked internally, which meant probing didn't quite work as intended if the motion controller tried using the old method.