I was starting a new calibration and the sled was already on its way to the first waypoint when I realised that I had not lowered the Z-axis. I clicked STOP to abort the calibration and then I went into the Z-menu to lower the Z-axis, but when I clicked DOWN, the router did not go down, but instead the sled was moving 10 cm to the left. Clicking DOWN again, the sled moved to the left again.
Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
BTW: my Maslow is working perfectly otherwise; I allready made some test cuts. The dimensions of the test cuts were a bit off (few mm too high in the vertical direction and a few mm too low in the horizontal direction).
I guess this has some correlation to the computed anchor coordinates, which are also not correct when comparing them to manual measurements:
tlY is 2536.2 but I measure 2530 and brX is 3228.6 but I measure 3239.5
I was hoping that a new calibration would better match my manual measurements…
I think that this is a bug. When you press stop it will stop the motors in place, but then when the z-axis is moving it will re-activate the other motors too. Fortunately I think that this bug will only come up in exactly this situation (ie stop while moving between calibration test points followed by moving the z-axis). So it’s 100% a bug, but the solution is going to be pretty complicated and might take some time.
No, you should be able to resume calibration. This is only going to happen when moving the z-axis after stopping calibration (I guess technically using any of the jog buttons would cause it).
I guess that the ideal fix would be to lock the jog buttons after calibration is started but before it is complete?
When you say resume calibration in the context of needing to lock jog commands, are you referring to restarting a calibration that was prematurely aborted? Or does this apply to a paused calibration if you can even do that?
If you press “Stop” mid way thorough calibration, you can start it again by pressing “calibrate” and it will pick up where it left off.
The issue is that if you press stop mid way through calibration and then try to use the jog buttons there is a disconnect between where the machine thinks it is (0,0) and where it actually is (somewhere else due to calibration which is paused mid way through) so the machine will try to move quickly to where it’s supposed to be (somewhere close to 0,0).
What we want to do is disable the jog buttons during the calibration process, but the thing we need to be careful of is that in the past when we’ve disabled something we end up getting a lot of questions like “I started running calibration and now my machine won’t respond at all” so we need to be really careful about how we make that change so that it doesn’t make things confusing
On way, grey out the jog buttons with label underneath saying something like “jogging locked until calibration completes” and also add a UI banner to indicate status: calibration incomplete press calibrate to complete calibration