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Hi,
Has anyone here tried running the Autoleveller (www.autoleveller.co.uk)software on a Tormach with Pathpilot???
I have used it with Mach3 on a Windows machine but not Linux. Not much of a Linux person so not really sure where to start.
Thanks,
Robert
Hi,
I use Autoleveller but with Mach4.
Autoleveller does not operate on a machine, just modifies the Gcode file you present to the machine, so it should work equally well on any machine. Note that Autoleveller has a Linux
setting to 'flavor' the code output.
Craig
Hi,
Not sure I follow your response as Autoleveller does use the machine to probe the surface of the object. That file of data is then used to modify the original G-Code for the actually routing.
Maybe my question should be: How does one use the Tormach with Pathpilot to create the probe date file?
Thanks,
Robert
Hi,
there are two versions of Autoleveller, the first version run a probe routine and effectively records those data points in the registers of your control software.
The second and better version is called AE. When you open Autoleveller it will ask for the OGF (Original Graphics File). AE will asses the dimensional extents
of the file and generate a PFG (Probe File Graphic). Run this file on the machine and it will probe in a rectangular grid and save the data to a file of your choice.
Once complete that data is consumed by Autoleveller AN your OGF to produce a 'corrected' file.
Download and install AutolevellerAE. Run Autoleveller and browse to the required graphics file. Use the features of Autoleveler to determine the number of probe points,Quote:
How does one use the Tormach with Pathpilot to create the probe date file?
the speed at which the probing is to occur, and the heights, namely the retract height and the lowest probe level. Thereafter Autolevevller will produce a Gcode probing file to run on your
machine. The AE version will ask you to nominate a data file into which the received probe data is to go.
Craig