New Woodworker machine. New to CNC. Reflashed the SD card with 1.3.1 ISO, so fresh out of the box install. When doing a XYZ probe for home using a 0.25" straight bit the bit touches the top of the probe plate, then jogs to probe X. When it finishes jogging it drops Z too far by 0.5 mm ish then it drags the bit across the material to finish probing X and Y. The file loaded is the Onefinity test file. Is there a setting I should look for to address this? I would guess it’s baked into the software, but it shouldn’t be dropping the bit down more than the height of the probe.
Verify that the thickness of your touch probe is correct. Probably good to grab a cheap digital/dial caliper, if you don’t already have one. My guess is that your touch probe is thinner than the settings in the Onefinity controller indicate, and that is messing up your probing routine.
Admittedly, I haven’t used a machine with the original Onefinity controller in a year, so someone else should probably tell you which settings pages to look at.
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It’s the Onefinity touch probe. It calipers out at 15 mm.
I’m a little unclear on what you are experiencing.
After probing z it should raise back up to clear the plate then jog well beyond the x position before lowering down and advancing left toward the touch plate.
Is that the sequence you are seeing before it completes y and raises to finish or just a dimensional error in the process?
Hey BJC,
You did not tell which machine you have. A “Woodworker” is available as Original, X-50 now PRO, and Elite Series. The latter use a very different CNC controller than the two first, probing differs much.
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After it touches the plate for Z, it raises up, jogs over and jams the bit into the work piece. Then continues to work on coming back to touch for X and Y. It’s doing the process correctly from videos I’ve seen, but when it goes out to do the X probe it’s sending Z too deep and dragging the bit across the work piece.
It’s a Woodworker Pro.
Here’s a link to a video of what’s happening: Dropbox
Wow, this is really a strange problem.
Have you experienced any z depth issues other than when performing xyz zeroing? If so you might want to investigate possible physical/electrical issues. i.e. plug connectors, etc. On the other hand, if it seems to perform normally when manually zeroing the axis’, you could try re-flashing the firmware.
Beyond that contacting 1F support for help is in order.
Yes. The CSD test file calls out using a 0.25" material. Luckily we used a 0.75 MDF board because it cut it 0.5 in deep. The Team 1F baked in with the firmware just drops the Z straight down into the material, regardless of where the machine is placed. We also drew a test file in Vectric at 0.2" deep. It cut it at 0.5" deep. For all of these we set the XYZ origins by hand. I don’t think we’re missing anything. I think something’s wrong with the controller.
The team Onefinity file in the controller has an m6 gcode probe command at the very beginning, its probing for z.
Don’t run that code, run something you create so you know what’s in the gcode!.
Like I said at the end there, we made our own file in Vcarve telling it to cut a rectangle 0.2" deep. It followed directions for the shape, but it cut it 0.5" deep, not 0.2" deep. Something’s not right. Already working with 1F tech support, but it’s a slow and frustrating process. Email only, can’t talk to anyone.
Hey BJC, I hope this gets resolved quickly for you.
Please be sure to respond back to this post with your results for the rest of us.
Apparently the config was setup with a Z16 spindle holder and we had a Z20 HD spindle holder. I think it’s working now. SMH. Sorry for the fuss. Hopefully someone else can use this to troubleshoot the same problem in the future.
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