Finding inside corner with the touchplate

Good day…
Question here…I rarely use the touchplate.
How do you guys use the touchplate to find an inside corner?

Basically flip the touchplate over , put in the corner…probe.
the corner would be offset by the amount of the touchplate side.

Change the numbers in the settings and or adjust the distance in Mach4 and zero?

Tnx.

I have different macros that probe the outside of the block, so I don’t need to know the offsets. I’ve collected a lot of probing macros :wink:

(btw I run linuxcnc not mach so no, sharing won’t help you :stuck_out_tongue: )

I’ve also learned you can probe other metal things as long as the probe block is sitting on it or touching it somehow. A set of 1-2-3 blocks is handy when you need more precision or weird touch-offs.

Want to move to Centroid asap to use it probing options…this will be allot more efficient for me.

You can use the outside edge/side probe on the inside. So you have to do each axis separately, but it should work.

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What kind of touch plate do you have?
With the AVID model You just choose what you are doing, and the software does the rest, no math.

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I am using the Avid touchplate…maybe I can also 3d print or machine a piece that goes into the touch plate as my drawing the 3d one flip it over and probe …should work also…

My apologies:
I am running the new EX centroid controller, and it does both inside and outside corners.