Probe Basic Configuration

charleyann wrote:

Thanks for the help. I think I'm going to use the Qtdragon UI. I tested it yesterday and looks like it has everything I need plus there is a lot of documentation for it.

not a bad idea if youre fairly new and just looking to get setup, there isn't yet alot of documentation for probe basic.

Lcvette wrote:

they automatically set the gui display based on the ini file, if you have only xyz in the ini, only xyz will display in the gui, if you have xyza configured in the gui, then you get xyza in the gui etc.. we made it fairly simple to display only what is needed via the already required configuration for linuxcnc.
 

His INI file had the right values to trigger the 4-axis display in PB. i.e GEOMETRY = XYZA, but was still getting a 3-axis display.

Thats why this was curious... PB wasn't acting as expected.

I just looked over the ini file posted above and it would need the same ini entry as the sim has in order to command the axis display as desired: 

That makes much more sense now.  Noted for future reference -  [TRAJECTORY] and not [DISPLAY] that triggers the axis dros.

I'm interested, as I've got my 4th axis turned off/disabled right now, but will eventually be re-enabling it and with my luck I'd be chasing the same problem.

It is done via a widget rule which pols status:axes from the ini at start up. So be sure to add the AXES = 3 or 4 or 5

I spent a LOT of time trying to get the 4th axis to display. I looked at several config files and never saw the "AXIS =" entry
I went with QTdragon due to this issue.
If we had some kind of getting started doc for using Probe Basic it could save a lot of frustration.