Hi my fellow CNC enthusiasts!
I am very happy to have a question, because I always get great Ideas from the people here in this forum!
So... It is been a while since I use autoleveller from Autoleveller – CNC Millings, Levelled . I use it mainly to scan uneven surface and engrave on it with the levelled code from the program. It is great piece of software.
I just want to say thank you to James for his effort.
I use it both with UCCNC and Mach3. But there is a catch. For the older setups with BOB on a XP machine is very hard to find a working version of java. And even if you do, it sometimes crashes. Maybe because of the java.
There is another thing and that is the lack of the option to exclude points, like if you need to "scan" a different shape from a rectangle. I mean you can scan a circle but you have to wait for the whole process of the probe going around all the point in a square that the software makes. I am not complaining! For a free software is great!
There is also some pieces that for some reason create probed file that the software crashes when you load the point cloud. No mater if you probed 9 points or 100 points. Do not know the reason for this. Tried a lot of different approaches, but there are jobs that refuse to get probed... Maybe is because of the java, or something from my side. Do not know.
I will not lie to you, I use my machines for commercial purposes. And I would like to find a software or plugin that is more professional. I am wiling to pay to have more reliable and up-to-date tool.
Now I have bought a probe that can read X Y and Z. So I can now use it as edge finder and template reader, but again I want to use it to probe the surface of my jobs and adapt the toolpaths to this "scanned" surface, just I use to do with autoleveller.
So again shoutout to James for the great software, but I need some alternative.
My question is, what that alternative can be? For Mach3 and for UCCNC? I use them both on different machines, because I like them both....
Thank you all and I wish you good health in those crazy times...