How to use probing in Mach3 || Tool length offset sensor 

Thanks mate!. You're probably the only adequate person on RU-vid who uses Z zeroing touch sensor properly. The other freaks all over the place are obsessed with use of the silly "touch plate thickness" parameter whereas we only need to know a delta between the tip of the initial either tool or probe (whatever hits the stock Z0 datum first) and all the offsets of every next tool used in the machining sequence.

Good video, but as you pointed out the machine bed and the spindle are earthed, so you don't need to attach the probe earth lead to the machine, just clip the hot wire onto the plate or tool length probe and off you go. And as you have gone to the trouble of isolating the tool length probe, you could leave that permanently wired, which means you only have to connect up the touch plate... this can now have a permanent connection so no messing around with crocodile clips and no possibility of forgetting to connect it. (just cont leave it anywhere that it can trigger the probing input.) :-) I use VB scripts capture x and y per job I take z as being the machine bed in CAM so I don't run into the issue of wanting to use a datum that I just milled away. That said i tend to mill mostly wood - so a piece of stock that 1/2 a mm thicker than it should be does not cause a problem, ali...not so much. this approach helps minimise the chance of the live tool coming into contact with the the bed or fixture.

Is the screen that appears from 3minutes in the Mach3 screen ? I would also like to add the Toolsetter fanction to my mach3. How can I do this ?

You did an amazing job with going through all things necessary man! Thanks a bunch also, since I'm about to reach the point of setting this up on my own DIY CNC machine :-) Cheers and keep up the good work!

Nice! That is some high detail!

So basically your first tool, the one you found zero with, will be the starting point, and all the other tools are just different Z offsets of the tool 0.

Interesting video and well detailed. However...Tried that probing wizard and the version might be different from yours, on mine the z height probing returns stupid values (like -8952...) and is overall really crappy buggy shit, which version did you use? Or maybe it has to do with the mach 3 version you're using(using the latest personnally) Same goes for the auto tool zero script you linked, after probing the z axis wants to go down crashing in the probe instead of going to safe z, lol... Other than that, keep up the good work, you craft nice things.

Hello, I have question about 7m 11s of this tutorial. How do You change manually walues to: -10, -10, +7,95. How is it possible? I can not figure it out. When I press ctrc+z/ cltr+x/ ctrl+x I can write value but after enter it turns back to previous.

Great video! Could you do one with what youve learned from building your CNC and do differently if you would do it again? I'm also intressted in the end or current cost of this project.

Hello may be you know how to make mach3 screen set to fit the screen? The mach3 sofware that the supplier gave me is very small

So everything works great except for one thing. Before and after the tool change the M6 routines (M6start and M6end) slowly jog at 50mm/m to the X and Z machine 0. How do I increase this feed rate so it doesn't take an eternity? What kind of code do I edit in the files?

Hi nettes Video ich habe bereits den Werkzeuglaengensensor der funktioniert ähnlich eine kroko Klemme and die Spindel die andere fehlt dafür ist ein rundes isoliertes Teil dran auf das I fährt bis Kontakt dann 1mm zurück. Es ist am Breakout Board bei Probe angeschlossen und nun frage ich mich ob ich das auch für x und y nutzen könnte wenn ich ne kroko Klemme dazu mache bei schwarz. Wo ist deines angeschlossen?

Sehr gutes Video, hat mir gefallen. Bist du aus Köln? Ich bin in Bonn. Ich habe mir vor auch einiger Zeit eine (vertikale) CNC Fräsmaschine gekauft.

When digitizing input is active, mach3 not allow move any axis, so whole machine stops right after touch happens..

Awesome !

Hi Max, where can I find more info about the plastic z probe you have on your CNC and the script for it too. Thanks!

Salve I would need help to the wizard installation. After installation when active one of the probe functions the machine does not move the axes. Can help me solve the problem thanks

Ok screw the probe, HOW DO I GET AN X BOX CONTROLLER HOOKED UP?!

Sir, how the machine measure the top of the stock with respect to the touch probe ?

Did you ever get a error probe tripped during xy movement