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This is the opposite of what I call the Y-vise probe, which is one of the built-in probing routines in PathPilot. They call it the Y-only routine. That routine is useful for finding the center of parts between two vise jaws. It's like the Pocket routine, but only in Y.
This is the opposite of that. It's for irregular bosses or pieces laying on their side, where you want the center of Y and don't care about X or Z.
I've been begging Tormach to release something like this for a couple years now, but they're reluctant because it would be difficult to program this for all potential situations.
This code will work, providing you're within an inch of your stock in Y+. It will probe, rise 1" and travel 1" from the limit switch in Y- and probe Y-. On my machine, that is plenty of distance past the fixed jaw. You can edit this script as necessary.
If you place this in /home/operator/tmc/subroutines/yboss.nc you can run the routine by typing into the MDI line: o<yboss> call
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