Tool touch-off in QTDragon

JohnnyCNC wrote: I noticed something else. I have my machine units set to inch and at the end of the probe action using the Touch-Plate button on the Tool screen it switches to Metric.

persei8 wrote: QtDragon was never intended to be used with an ATC but I could certainly look into it. It would only affect the tool table when using a tool setter, not a touchplate.
As for the dialog, add the following to your stylesheet.

Code:

QDialog { background-color: gray; } QDialog QPushButton { width: 100px; height: 40px; }

Adjust the color or any other parameters you like to suit whatever stylesheet you're using.

cmorley wrote:

JohnnyCNC wrote: I noticed something else. I have my machine units set to inch and at the end of the probe action using the Touch-Plate button on the Tool screen it switches to Metric.

In 2.8 the macros for probing are in nc_files/probe/basicprobe/macros

Code:

[RS274NGC] SUBROUTINE_PATH = ../../../../nc_files/probe/basic_probe/macros

looking at the macro for touch_plate.ngc:

Code:

o<touch_plate> sub #<max_probe> = #<_ini[TOOLSENSOR]maxprobe> #<search_vel> = #<_ini[TOOLSENSOR]search_vel> #<probe_vel> = #<_ini[TOOLSENSOR]probe_vel> #<touch_height> = #<_ini[TOOLSENSOR]touch> (print, max_probe is #<max_probe>) (print, search vel is #<search_vel>) (print, probe vel is #<probe_vel>) (print, touch height is #<touch_height>) G21 (use metric units) G49 (cancel tool offset) G10 L20 P0 Z0 (clear current offsets) G91 (switch to incremental mode) ; this section commented out for sim ;G38.2 Z[-#<max_probe>] F#<search_vel> (probe down) ;G1 Z1.0 (go up 1 mm) ;G4 P0.5 (pause 0.5 sec.) ;G38.2 Z-2 F#<probe_vel> (probe down slower) ; this section used for sim, comment out otherwise G1 Z-10 F#<search_vel> G10 L20 P0 Z#<touch_height> (store offset in offset table) G90 (absolute distance mode) G53 G0 Z0 (move Z up to 0) o<touch_plate> endsub M2

It sets metric for it's process.
I'm sure there is away to record the current units before and restore them after.

Chris