Vcarve Pro and Post Processor

[neilferreri (Neil Ferreri Ω)]

@GIban671

are you still able to use the Shapeoko Touch Probe? If so, do you use a caliper and get the physical measurements than enter a gcode for a macro into CNCjs?

Yes & Yes.
Can of worms here, and I need to get to bed, but here’s some light reading for you:

CNCJS CNC Control Software

This one will probe Z first, so you don’t have to mess with changing distances. You can paste the stuff in parentheses with it as a reminder) (start with the end mill 15mm ABOVE the plate, about 15mm or less from bottom left corner.) G21 ;make sure we’re in mm G91 ;Incremental mode G38.2 Z-25 F75 ;Probe Z G10 L20 P1 Z22 ;Set Current Z as 22mm - thickness of your plateG G0 Z3 ;lift Z 3mm G0 X-25 ;Move left 25mm G0 Z-10 ;Move down 10mm, should be 7mm below probe surface G38.2 X25 F75 ;Pr…

"Automatic" Tool Length Offset

Just to update: I’ve added a couple more CNCjs tool change macros to the github repository.

GitHub - cncjs/CNCjs-Macros: Macros for use with CNCjs