Just a quick history of what I have been doing these last few days...
btw I'm using a 3020T chinesium cnc with mach3 along with the smoothstepper board. I create my circuits with Circuitmaker and use flatcam to make it into gcode. I've successfully made a board. But the cutting depth is not equal everywhere, hence the autoleveller software.
I tried the free version but mach3 freezes on the first # code it encounters. So I took the risk and upgraded to the AE version since you could create a separate probe file. So far so good. It started probing and made a file with the level data. At first it wouldn't load into autoleveller because the X and Y data weren't exactly the same in all the rows and columns. After resizing the probe area to nice round values and probing again it loaded into autoleveller. And in the probe tab I get a nice graphical view of the different level of my board.
BUT...
now when I hit the autolevel button it creates a gcode file with nothing in it. Well I say nothing but actually it's the code i've attached down below. But there is no data from the actual project. The question is, what am I missing?
I'm fairly new to all this cnc business but I like to think i'm a fast learner so if one of you could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.
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(This GCode script was designed to adjust the Z height of a CNC machine according)
(to the minute variations in the surface height in order to achieve a better result in the milling/etching process)
(This script is the output of AutoLevellerAE, 0.9.2 Changeset: ...27e60c @ http://autoleveller.co.uk)
(Author: James Hawthorne PhD. File creation date: 27-09-2017 14:11)
(This program and any of its output is licensed under GPLv2 and as such...)
(AutoLevellerAE comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details, see sections 11 and 12 of the GPLv2 @ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
G90 G21 S20000 G17
M0 (Attach probe wires and clips that need attaching)
(Initialize probe routine)
G0 Z25 (Move clear of the board first)
G1 X0 Y0 F600 (Move to bottom left corner)
G0 Z2 (Quick move to probe clearance height)
G31 Z-1 F100 (Probe to a maximum of the specified probe height at the specified feed rate)
G92 Z0 (Touch off Z to 0 once contact is made)
G0 Z2 (Move Z to above the contact point)
G31 Z-1 F50 (Repeat at a more accurate slower rate)
G92 Z0
G0 Z2
M0 (Detach any clips used for probing)
