[gunmaker]

Wondering if I can digitize with my 4th axis using the A axis instead of the Y axis? This way I could digitize and copy rotary parts easier.
Regards
James
Cent7 with the Milltronics digitizing DOS software.

[joeavaerage]

Hi,
I rather think that would rely on you changing the software, which with your installation sounds doubtful.

I use Mach4 and have done for some years. While most consider Mach to be the realm of hobbyists, Mach4 is actually rather better than that. In particular it has a very strong
scripting and screen editing environment which make it ideal for customizing you machine.

I your case you wish to digitize in three axes, where one is a rotary axis. I would write a probing script (in Lua, Mach4's scripting language) to do just exactly that. When a probe event is latched, all axes (six of them) are recorded.
That you are only interested in three is your choice, all six axes positions are stored in six registers for machine coordinates and another six for prevailing work coordinates. If you choose to record those in
a file as a 'point cloud', then have the script do so.


Is your controller, or software amenable to writing your own scripts? If it is how do you feel about programming it that way?

Craig

[gunmaker]

I've never messed with scripts.

[joeavaerage]

Hi,
well in absence of someone chiming in who knows the intimate details of your controller, whom can tell you how probing works, then without scripting I would say
what you want to do is impossible.

You may have no knowledge of scripts.......but are you prepared to learn?

Craig

[Brian L]

Milltronics sold digitizing software to use with probes. If you have that software, I would imagine it's a matter of setting up the probing routine, probing in Z, while incrementing between specific numbers in X and then increment in A after the X axis has completed. I know that the machine software is capable, but I have no experience with the probing software, so you would have to ask Milltronics about that.