ONEFINITY CNC question and answer follow up: homing and zeroing
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2021
- Do you have a ONEFINITY CNC or are thinking of getting one? Today's video addresses a topic hat came up in our question and answer video and is a follow up about homing and zeroing your machine.
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Thank you for taking the time making these videos! Very helpful!
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My Onefinity Elite foreman is on order, so binging your videos. Very helpful. I know some of this Will be different for mine. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
Hey there, we’ll glad they helped, I’ve had my elite for about a month or more and plan on videos relating to it, so please feel free to subscribe so you don’t miss any! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing this information, it was extremely helpful!
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Great video! Was having issues earlier today and getting frustrated until I came across your video. Thank you!
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Good information. Thanks
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Awesome explanation and check you out with the fancy intro graphic and PIP!!! Looking great man!
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Expecting my machine to show up any day now. Thanks for going over the fundamentals.
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Great Channel, New follower..
Thanks Allen! Hope you have a great day!
I prefer the touch probe as well but only about half of my projects have square corners.
Hi Hugh, yeah that could be a problem, just need one somewhat close to 90 corner though!
I don't seem to have continuity. Probably don't understand how check. Went to F1 screen but don't see any change in the touch probe high red low green box. Thanks. this was a great video explained very well.
Hi William, are you putting the ground clamp on the router collet?
Once you ground the other wire (with the magnet end) on the collet, and without doing anything else, pick up the aluminum probe block and touch it to your bit, you should see the change to green in your screen for as long as it’s touching.
Thanks. I have done that . I also touched the magnet to the aluminum pad . I also disconnected the female end and checked with a ohm meter and have continuity with both magnet on one wire and continuity in the pad wire@@TradeSkillersAnonymous
Great video thank you. Question, @9:30 in the vid, if you jot down on some scratch paper the "absolute, offset" values, can you return the machine to that exact point manually? Those are the machine coordinates for your work piece "zero" . This would allow all types of "resuming" for the project.
Hi Douglas, yes that’s correct. Only issue is, those absolute offsets would relate directly to the machine home, which should be really closely matched between power off cycles, so the real answer would be yes, as long as you didn’t power cycle the machine off and back on, resulting in loss of machine home, so as long as you were working from the last machine e home, yes without a doubt. If you re-hi Ed the machine (manually or due to a power cycle) you could be off conceivably by a few thou
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Thanks for the video! Problem I have been having with the touch probe is after I have probed the bit I still end up floating about .0625 over the work piece... I am going to try again and see if I can figure it out.. .
Hi John , Thanks for taking the time to view, and comment I really do appreciate it.
I'm not sure why that would be happening, are you a member of the Facebook group for onefinity?
Lots of helpful people on the Onefinity Facebook group linked here:
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In case you don' do Facebook, here is the user form group, on the Onefinity web site:
forum.onefinitycnc.com/
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Does the Onefinity, have the ability to view "actual" position in a digital read out in the software? work "zero" is AN actual position FROM "machine zero" simply jotting down the actual position , example x= 4.1375 y= 3.1754 If power fails, you could very simply jog the machine to those coordinates, set the work zero there, and you are back to within one tenth. Same could be true if you shut the machine down for the night. Also, if the work piece no longer has the corner and sides because the carve has removed it you would not be able to set the probe on it again. "Machine position" would allow you to lock in the position from machine home.
Hi Douglas Smith , Thanks for taking the time to view, and comment I really do appreciate it.
Homing machine results in an on screen X,Y Coordinate of 0,0. If you zero to a work piece that is 4",4", the onscreen would definitely show (live) your actual, current position. I does not however show a home set of coordinates, or a work zero set of coordinates, but the on screen representation does show wherever the machine head is, if that makes sense.
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@@TradeSkillersAnonymous Thanks, already subed, so there is NO correlation between machine home and work zero? This is usually shown on cnc machines as "actual" vs. "work" position. You could install a DRO to the onefinity and display all travel, but that would be stupid, because the stepper motors and controller already "know" this information and just aren't displaying it, it is important data and should be being displayed.
Hi JR. I have a question about using a bit to zero the work piece. Isn't there a chance the flute on the bit makes contact with the touch probe and instead of the OD of the bit? Or am I overthinking this? Thanks for the great content. Your clear explanations and logical approach to things is greatly appreciated.
Mike
Hi Mike, if you were using something like a bowl bit, yes definitely. I always xyz zero with a 1/4” bit, and if needed swap out to the necessary bit. Bowl bits and tapered end mills are certainly good examples of bits to not x and y zero. Once I establish my initial xyz zero with a straight 1/4 end mill, I change bits and just re-zero with the odd shape bit that I need. Sounds like it’d take up time, but it’s really only 30 seconds or so. I also always xy zero with the probe so that if I lose power or something, I can get my zero back within very close to the original. Hope that helps!
Mike, to clarify I xyz zero with a 1/4 end mill, then rezero only the Y with the odd shaped bit. Thanks!
Great video! help. a lot, I just buy the woodworker, btw, what monitor are you using? I am thinking to buy a bigger one like yours. thanks!
Hi Vic, congrats on the woodworker, it's a really good machine.
The monitor I went with is this one:
www.amazon.com/dp/B07P619NXM/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_876264N6BD60W9ME8M7Q?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
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@@TradeSkillersAnonymous, I ready subscribed
What program are you using? I like your dog holes, but I am totally new to this and am seeking assistance in placing the dog holes like you do. I have V Carve Pro. Thanks your time in doing these videos!
Hi there! I use Vectric pro. What model onefinity do you have?
@@TradeSkillersAnonymous I ordered the Journeyman back around Dec. 1. Hoping to get it in maybe February. I think I figured out the dog holes. Made one at 3/4", then used the array button and went from there, getting them centered, etc. Thanks for the reply! Great channel.
I just homed my Machine, Put my block on and started to probe for ). It probed for Z correctly, but when it moved to probe for x, it stopped short of the block edge and went down and embedded my brand ner 3/ 16 IDC bit into my block and snapped in hale. Any ideas on what just happened
Hey mark, that sucks. PM me on instagram or Facebook, might be better to do a call. JR Reihl on Facebook. Trade skillers anonymous on ig
everytime you do a project that use multiple bits, do you zero each one? or do you have a bit setter?
Hi Big Myles, I do t currently have a bit setter, so if I’m doing multiple tools on the same job you simply re-zero the Z after the new but is installed (but don’t rezero the x and y). When my new onefiiity “elite” comes with the MASSO controller, it will have the bit setter. Thanks for checking this out and your comment. I invite you to subscribe while your here. New videos coming including that new machine and bit setter feature. Take care!
do you have, or intend to do this video but using the masso controler?
Hi William, I may in the future but am currently in the middle of moving so it might be a little while. Make sure you subscribe while you’re here and if I do, it’ll show up in your videos. Thanks!