I just purchased a Tormach passive probe and have been wondering about using smartprobe.ngc to find the radius of a shaft or in my case a rifle receiver to make a scope base. How would I confugure the grid? It needs to only have one plotted line for the CAD program to measure radius. No X move and a Y grid that starts -Y and finishes +Y? The Z move would have to be? Here is the configuration portion of smartprobe.ngc:
(Configuration section)
G20 (Inches)
F20 (probe speed)
#1=-1 (X start) would it be X0?
#2=.04 (X increment) would it be 0?
#3=51 (X count) 1?
#4=-1 (Y start) Would it be off center by some amount?
#5=.04 (Y increment)
#6=51 (Y count) Distance/.04?
#7=1.1 (Z safety)
#8=-.1 (Z probe) would it be a distance to ensure contact at the -Y first probe?
(End configuration section)