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Weiss VM32 CNC Conversion

A USB stick from Tormach US$28.95, also obtainable from https://www.studica.ca/en/ in Canada.
A 7i92T from Mesa
A 3 or 4 axis BOB with stepper drivers.
An SFF HP desktop, with a single ethernet interface, and a USB wifi adapter to get to internet.
A touch screen monitor, I bought this one in 2021 https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B083WF327D but you can now use a larger one turned vertical. Check on Tormach site for size. Should be resistive touch to avoid spurious actions.
The usual buttons for Reset, Feed Hold, etc although those can also be done from the screen of course.
One file needs 3-5 lines edited to set leadscrew details and travel/limits.
They have an excellent manual for download.

My shop made machine is an 1100-3 in Tormach's config. But with high speed spindle. The conversational doesn't know about that so I have to manual edit the S line to get up to what I want the spindle to run at.

 
gerritv said:
A USB stick from Tormach US$28.95, also obtainable from https://www.studica.ca/en/ in Canada.
A 7i92T from Mesa
A 3 or 4 axis BOB with stepper drivers.
An SFF HP desktop, with a single ethernet interface, and a USB wifi adapter to get to internet.
A touch screen monitor, I bought this one in 2021 https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B083WF327D but you can now use a larger one turned vertical. Check on Tormach site for size. Should be resistive touch to avoid spurious actions.
The usual buttons for Reset, Feed Hold, etc although those can also be done from the screen of course.
One file needs 3-5 lines edited to set leadscrew details and travel/limits.
They have an excellent manual for download.

My shop made machine is an 1100-3 in Tormach's config. But with high speed spindle. The conversational doesn't know about that so I have to manual edit the S line to get up to what I want the spindle to run at.

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This one?

A couple of years ago I bought a 10" 1280x800 touch screen. I found the 800 too small for LinuxCNC It works but just... 1280x1024 seems like it would be better but maybe still a bit small?

I like the psng touch probe system I have on my LinuxCNC system. Although I've screwed something up and still don't have the updates working properly what I'm hopefully able to do is insert a TTS tool and have it automatically measure length if there is no length in the tool table or if there is a length just change the current workspace co-ordinates so the tip of that tool is now at Z=0.

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Does Tormach have anything like this sort of tool sensor window?
 
Managed to get my 3D probe and tool offsets figured out last night after some head scratching.
I believe the Masso documentation contains an error or at the very least is not clear on setting up a 3D probe when using a tool setter.

Measure Touch probe length

docs.masso.com.au docs.masso.com.au
Specifically, Step 10 where it says the -ve (meaning negative) of the value shown in the Z axis DRO is the number
My machine is setup with the generally accepted cartesian coordinates, where Z0 is the top of the Z axis and movement toward the table is Z negative.
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Long story made somewhat short, Tool 1 Z offset in my tool table is -314.74697.
The machine measured 3D probe offset is -299.361 which makes sense because the probe is longer than Tool 1 by 15.385mm, the actual difference between the two tools when I measure them on my surface plate with a digital height gauge.
Literal reading of the documentation says that you're to put the negative value of the Z axis DRO number. My dim memory of high school math said a negative of a negative number is positive but that made zero sense so I stuck the -299.xxx number in the offset for the probe.
Proceeded to probe X, Y and Z of a 1-2-3 block in the vise, then loaded three different tools into the machine, ran them all to Z0 and they landed precisely on top of the 1-2-3 block.
Job done!
 
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