Hi all, so last night after a 10 hour 3d cut my machine crashed during a contour outside operation (poor work-holding) but it destroyed 4-5 inches of the bottom left leaving nothing to re-probe. I reset it today, adjusted the initial contour program by a few mm so that an accurate probe from the bottom right would result in an accurate cut but from what I’m reading the bitzero isn’t set up to probe from all corners?
Please advise
The v2 BitZero may only probe for all 3 axes from the lower left corner.
It may probe for an individual axis for either X or Y at any corner, and may probe any surface which it may be rested on for Z.
So you would probe twice at the corner, once each for X and Y, and then reposition the unit and probe for Z only with the unit fully on the surface.
if i do that would i be better off to use the original program rather than the one i measured from the bottom right?
I think I will mark out some spots and run a quick drilling program .1" into each and if they line up we know the probing routine worked
This will only work if the stock dimensions and stock setup match.
Well… enough of the workholding was unnaffected and the peice was 48" wide and exactly aligns with the sides of the machine. So I guess wish me luck.
The project will hit the right side of the machine by 1200mm do you wish to continue?
What the hell
So then with what you said i need to what translate my project off the workspace by 48 inches to the left?
because there is no left side of the project to bloodywell home from, it seems so beyond unintuitive to not allow people to change the homing corner with a click of a button in CC
You can change the corner in CC but you just have to go through the slightly more cumbersome process in CM @WillAdams described if it isn’t the lower left.
Make sure CC is set to the same corner you measure in CM.
Because otherwise the damn spindle doesn’t turn on… yeah just figured that out.
Also the options for toolpath zero don’t unclude anything beyond center and lefts so what do i do about that
Set the origin at the corner where you want it to be, jog over to where you have to set the origin in Carbide Motion, set there.
So when my machine crashed, some plywood broke free and there was 2-3 seconds inbetween that and hitting the emergency stop. I just updated to 636 in CM and now my spindle doesn’t turn on before cuts. Did it really break within 3 seconds? It’s still true but are they really this fragile?
You’ve got to separate the order of events to figure it out:
If you are setting zero to the front right corner, but want to use the same toolpath with the zero at the front left, then after you zero front right, move X to 0.000 and type in 48.000. Now the X zero is back on the front left corner, assuming the workpiece is EXACTLY 48.000" wide. (<— sic. I used 3 decimal places on purpose!) 
Do you need to reset your VFD after the crash?
Can you take a look at my other post here: Pulling my hair out after a machine crash
Maybe you can help me troubleshoot my post crash woes, it’s a more accurate chain of events to try and figure out what is going on with my machine.
Hi rob, I updated from 622 to 636 after the crash
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