AUTO HEIGHT MEASURE
This program probes 2 user specified locations in the Z axis and calculates the difference in heights.
Enable Probe Position Set Buttons
- when checked, the SET buttons are enabled
- this allows the user to automatically fill in the X, Y and Z parameters with the current position as displayed on the DROs.
Autofill Workpiece Height on Main Screen
- when checked, the calculated height is automatically transferred to the Workpice Height field in the main screen.
Workpiece Probe
- the X, Y and Z coordinates specify where the first probing routine should start, in current WCS
Machine Probe
- the X, Y and Z coordinates specify where the second probing routine should start, in current WCS
Parameter Validation
- before running the probe routines, probe parameters are checked to make sure no problems will occur
- search velocity must be greater than 0.0
- probe velocity must be greater than 0.0
- maximum probe distance must be greater than 0.0
- retract distance must be greater than 0.0 and less than maximum probe distance
- Z safe height must be greater than P1 Z height
- P1 Z height must be greater than P2 Z height
START PROBE
- probe parameters are read from SETTINGS -> PROBE and checked for validity
- if any errors are detected while checking validity, the probe routine will not run
- any errors detected will be highlighted with red text in SETTINGS -> PROBE
- the machine will jog to the first location and then probe down and record the Z1 position
- the machine then jogs to the second location and probes down and records the Z2 position
- the difference in probed values is reported as Calculated Workpiece Height
ABORT PROBE
- causes all jog and probe routines currently executing to stop