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Very cool Tweakie! Keep'em coming these are great.
Thanks for sharing

Is there a way of programing a Spasific x-y location so that a touch plate can be mounted to the frame for a homing cycle ?
I'll be updating my table top mill I made to improve it's cutting and think that something like this would help a lot.
I ran short on extrusion so MDF was my only option at the time for a table/spoil board.
This is a pic of it before the upgrade to 3/8 plate and a 1.5kw spindle.
All of the first upgrades where cut on it, then transferred to the mill bit by bit

And some of the update pics

Sure there is Robert. In the script, call the homing routine then specify the co-ordinates of the touch plate.


In my applications I always set Z zero to the top surface of the work and as the work thickness can be different from one day to the next there is advantage in placing the touch plate on the surface of the work to obtain Z zero without any measurements being necessary.

btw. very nice machine build you have there.


Tweakie.

Ty

Now that I think about it, I just may do as you and make a insulated weighted plate, I was mainly thinking about bit changing

Great stuff Steve, I am pleased it is of use to you.

Tweakie.

Well here it is T, my very own diy touch plate.
Thanks for the great build and idea

1/4 " Buss bar from the scrap


Milled minus 25% and lightly brush finished @800 grit


Scrap 5.8mm acrylic


Finished results

Just love turning junk into a useful item again

That is just way too cool Robert. Excellent work sir.

Tweakie.

Work of art my friend! Awesome job
BTW In case you did not know this, in SketchUp you can add more sides to an arc or circle by right clicking on the edge > entity info and adding more line count in the segments.

Ty bud!
I'm having issues with the output of code with the new plug in update.
Half way through cutting my code
"Center line tool only so far" the machine goes nutz pulls some random moves and continues on like nothing happened ?
I'm not sure what's happening but I have gone through a lot of matireals

I will send you a PM Robert. Sorry to hear of the bugs

please post the sketchup file and the gcode you generated.

I will post ASAP
Just a build I'm keeping on the down low for now so I don't want to post the files here.
Pm me an e-mail I can send them to

@GrandpawB What video's are you referring to ?

Tweakie.

You have lost me completely regarding video 2 and video 3

Do you mean this http://openbuilds.com/builds/tool-position-setting-part-i.484/ ?

Tweakie.