This is not really a problem, more of a request. I am using the auto touch plate in combination with gSender and all appears to be working fine. After I zero the Z-axis, the tool retracts to a new position. The issue is that I would like it to retract higher so that I have room to install my dust collector “shoe”. Is there a place where I can change the setting as to how high it retracts?
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Hello! @Jimc137, I agree! I have the same difficulty as what you reported. My current work around is I document the Z height after using my auto touch plate, raise it, install my dust shoe and lower it to the original height. While not perfect, it makes installing my dust shoe easier. Hope this helps!
Jake
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Hey Jake,
I beleive once it is zeroed, it doesn’t matter if you return it to it’s origional heigt. The zero-heigt remains the same unless you bang it into max height.
But, out of fear of losing my zero, I too bump the z up with a known amount (mostly 25mm) en drop it that same amount. mostly when moving xy direction to probe flatness around my stock using calibrate and a touch plate.
Needed it is not, but doing things consistantly helps minimize triggering and ensures recovering - after the sure to be made oopsy.
I wonder if the retraction setting is something usable if you use z-probe with the z-thickness set to the thickness of the required touch plate.
Something to play around with once I get out of my laser jobs.
I think that makes sense, we’d need to figure something out though: how high of a movement would you want to have happen? Since of the movement is quite a bit then it could be a risk where if you Z-prove taller material your Z-axis runs out of space to move
In a perfect world, it would be a variable in the settings. Currently, I raise it about 1/2” above the current value, so maybe 3/4 to 1”?
That is the distance it retracts between fast and slow probes.
I ended up writing a macro for the z probe and raise enough to install dust probe.