I am trying to recalibrate my rotary on 5.24 and having a failure. I get to the point of probing the calibration rod in the chuck, it moves down and touches off the top of the rod then moves to the right of it, but does not move far enough down so when it starts moving in for the side touch it does not make contact as it is still about 1/4" above the rod. Of course it the moves just slightly to the left of the center of the rod and says it failed. I have plenty of z to get it down to be able to touch. Any suggestions?
This is a bit different than an issue I had setting mine up, but it may be worth going back into the wizard and double checking the diameter of the rod in the chuck. I checked it, but it somehow changed when I exited the wizard. I went back in and changed it to the correct value again and it worked.
I had the same issue when installing the 5.24 version a couple of weeks ago.
May not solve your issue, but it’s quick to check and be sure.
I had the same calibration issue today. When I initially ran through the Wizard, I had checked the probe diameter, and it was recorded as ~0.61. After reading this post, I returned to the Wizard to double check the diameter, and it had changed to 0.12. Not sure how that happened?
Also, I experienced a couple of other issues during the rotary calibration process:
When the spindle automatically backed off to max z height prior to the chuck probe calibration, I mistakenly moved the z in the wrong direction when trying to position above the chuck probe. (Note the machine was homed.) This resulted in failing the process as the z-proximity sensor tripped. As a result, I had to repeat the rotary calibration process from step 1. Should hitting a soft limit result in a fail?
During the rotary frame level adjustment, the software suggested a .0108 increase in mid-frame height was needed, but the height actually needed to be lowered based on the absolute reading. This was a persistent error.
Finally, I made it through the spatial rotary calibration now, thanks to this post!
