guys, after zeroing with this touch plate, it has a gap between where it thinks your bit should be and the true zero of the surface of the wood.
using gSender version 1.5.1
@AndyV To be clear, you use the touchplate to set Z0, then remove the touchplate and click on āgo to Z0ā and there is a gap between the bit and the material??
Hi Andy. Discovered the same thing a few days ago after v-carving 4 inlay plugs to the wrong depth! My own damn fault, I never checked it. When the plugs would not fit properly I checked the auto zero touch plate and it was +.471 mm on all of the bits checked. Will be submitting a ticket to see if it can be calibrated. Hereās a picture of one of the plugs that ended up in kindling box! I re-made 4 new pugs and surfaced off the cutting board and started over lol. Hereās a picture of the finished piece. Design by Nik at brownwood.com. Altmill mk1, gSender 1.49. Cheers
Had a typo, broinwood .com, not brown. Autocorrect got me again!
yes you are correctā¦ i had a chopped off definition of on surrface of my carveing on a nice piece of Maple, i assumed it would would have been correctā¦iām suing the first generation Altmil, with the firmware upgrade of the SLB, and gSender 1.5.1 the newest release..
This very same issue just showed up on my Longmill 30 x 30 2.5, running gsender 1.4.12. I also tried zeroing Z with paper and got the same result. I recently added Vortex, would some setting need to be changed?
Thanks in advance.
@AndyV @Ardmar @Scottp would any of you be able to provide more information such as a diagnostic file, video, pictures, etc. about this issue? The AutoZero probing routine keeps the bit elevated above the material at the end on purpose but still sets the zero as the material height so this shouldnāt be the issue
@Ardmar if youāre using the paper method and still getting the wrong Z then that would point to other possible issues, not related to AutoZero
Hi Chris. Sorry for the delayed response. Last week was the first opportunity I had to make a video of my findings with the auto zero touch plate versus paper for setting the Z. Could not duplicate the problem, the touch plate gave same results as paper method!? Obviously it was my error, just canāt figure out what I did. Have since started using the touch plate and occasionaly cross check with paper. My bad!
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