Grbl program for xyz probing

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Hi!

I made myself an aluminium xyz probe and wired it up correctly to the SO3 controller.
I am able to probe correctly with UGS. However, I love the carbide motion interface and would like to use it for all my machining.
The issue is that my homemade probe block has different offset sizes than the original carbide probe, meaning I can’t use the (hard coded) probing interface in carbide motion.

Does anyone know if it’s possible to write a probing Grbl code, in notepad, save is as a “.nc” file and run it as a probing program to set the workpiece zero?
I am asking before I try it, I don’t want to crash anything.

Thanks in advance!
Lars

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Yes it’s possible; go look at the CNCjs macros for probing. They are just gcode

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As long as your probe sequence uses just gcode, you should be good.
Edit: As Gary just said.

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Thanks for the quick reply!
To be sure here now, So if i store the g-code made in wordpad as a.nc file and open it as it it was a “carving program” by clicking “load file” it should work?

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Unless Carbide Motion is intentionally filtering those commands out which I doubt. You can type them in one at a time on the MDI command line to see how it works

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