Originally Posted by
refc91
I think I have possibly found a bug in pathpilot that causes a rapid Z movement when you G0 X0Y0 after probing a boss to find center. I broke a ceramic probe 2 weeks ago using the same process and thought It was a mistake on my end but after getting fairly comfortable with the machine and the probing process it was quite obviously something else when the probe crashed a second time. I have had absolutely no issues on the probe x,y,z page where you can probe each axis individually but seem to have really bad luck with the other scripts. I set up a small piece of aluminum rod in the vice to find the center for a drill op. I then set tool to 99 for probe offsets, killed the spindle switch and jogged the probe the the left side of the rod. I started the circular boss probing which ran through the probing process without any problem. There was no Z movement after the process was over so to check if the offsets were saved correctly I jogged Z an inch over the rod and used G0 X0Y0 to check if the work offsets were correct. Instead of moving to the X,Y work offsets it did a rapid Z move right into the stock and completely smashed the stylus and ripped it right out of the probe. As a matter of fact it moved as if I did a G0 Z0 in the mdi. This really concerns me as I have had moves stop instantly before if the probe is tripped and even have tripped the probe on full rapid moves but not this time.
Am I doing something wrong here or is there some serious bugs in PP still?