Bittsetter Probeing sequence optimizeing?

CNC Machines Shapeoko
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Hello CNC-ers. Fairly new in this world. So hope im not shooting to dumb question.

So now got upgrade for SH3 XXL … the BittSetter. All works as suppose to… After initialize machine… requests tool and probes. Then starting the Job. Agen starts tool change sequence. Then lets say in design i have contour tool-path with V bit and right after that is V-carve with same tool… and still asked tool probing.

Kinda weird that every move i make. Machine requests tool probe.
Is there anyway of skipping some tool-change sequences??
Lets say i need to do 20 exact same things with same tool. So i dont need to every 20 times do a tool probe if only thing what i do is change the stock…

Or that contour and v-carve tool-path… same tool so no need to probe just go next tool-path code…
Wouldn’t it better if lets say in beginning if same tool is in then requests tool change only if different tool is in gcode sequence

Feels and seems like probing is made super fool proof. But crazy waste of time.
Maybe there is some sort of work around some where to make machine more efficient. Otherwise upgrade is awesome… no more messing with paper… now it feels like changing paper probing to probe just in case in every angle

Best regards
Silver

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With carbide create this is supposed to be smart enough and only ask for the tool change when the tool actually changes.

there’s some corner cases that are… bugs that if you file them, tend to get fixed quickly.

Also I put my bitsetter right next to the location where CM asks for the bit to save time…

Also for a production run, you can always manually delete the M6T… line out of the gcode file… that’s the command that causes the toolchange prompt.

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Yes, that was apparently the key factor for deciding on the BitSetter workflow that CM implements, so it is unlikely that this would be change.

As @fenrus noted there should not be any unnecessary tool changes inside the G-code generated from CC.

For batch jobs where you know you are not going to change tools anyway, the most expedient way to skip the BitSetter sequence is to temporarily disable it from the Settings, and re-enable it afterwards.

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This doesn’t sound right. Unless you have decided to put these toolpaths in different files there should be no prompt.

The bitsetter is effective for single files that use multiple tools.

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Which version of CC are you using?

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Correct.

There are some recently addressed bugs on this front:

which hopefully are all squashed now — anyone who finds a spurious tool change should let us know at support@carbide3d.com and we’ll do our best to look into it.

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I was using CC5 but now noticed theres available CC6. So ill try with that. Good tip was to clear M6T line for manufacturing purposes…
I will try agen with CC6 with 2 tool paths with same tool. But yes using tool paths in same file (idea was that contour tool path carves border and inside a text)

But nice fast community here and nice fast and good answers (Y) thank you. (i was expecting bitter answers what usually you get in formus when you ask beginner question)

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Maybe if devs are reading it… what if theres button “do you want to probe tool”
Or even better… when requests tool change or insert tool, theres third button “Skip”

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