No retroactive changes with M851 Z

If using babystep to adjust the Z probe offset, the axis will move and the mesh will be updated at the same time, causing a doubling of the Z offset over the rest of the print.

To correct for this, the current Z position would need to be modified in the opposite direction, canceling out the additional Z offset added to the mesh. This would be confusing to users, and moreover it would not be accurate without also taking the current Z fade level and current Z height into account.

It might make sense to change the mesh in the case where no babystepping is taking place, but this could be considered an undesirable side-effect of changing the `zprobe_zoffset`.

One way to remedy this would be to return to storing the mesh with `zprobe_zoffset` included, then subtracting `zprobe_zoffset` from the returned Z value. Thus, a babystep moving the Z axis up 1mm would subtract 1 from `zprobe_zoffset` while adding 1 to all mesh Z values.

Without including the `zprobe_zoffset` in the `z_values` there is no safe way to alter the mesh in conjunction with babystepping, although it's fine without it.
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Scott Lahteine
2017-11-16 16:53:55 -06:00
parent 7dacc999b9
commit 3bba7d60f3
6 changed files with 8 additions and 63 deletions

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@ -37,22 +37,17 @@ void GcodeSuite::M290() {
for (uint8_t a = X_AXIS; a <= Z_AXIS; a++)
if (parser.seenval(axis_codes[a]) || (a == Z_AXIS && parser.seenval('S'))) {
const float offs = constrain(parser.value_axis_units((AxisEnum)a), -2, 2);
#if ENABLED(BABYSTEP_ZPROBE_OFFSET)
if (a == Z_AXIS) {
zprobe_zoffset += offs;
refresh_zprobe_zoffset(true); // 'true' to not babystep
}
#endif
thermalManager.babystep_axis((AxisEnum)a, offs * planner.axis_steps_per_mm[a]);
#if ENABLED(BABYSTEP_ZPROBE_OFFSET)
zprobe_zoffset += offs;
#endif
}
#else
if (parser.seenval('Z') || parser.seenval('S')) {
const float offs = constrain(parser.value_axis_units(Z_AXIS), -2, 2);
thermalManager.babystep_axis(Z_AXIS, offs * planner.axis_steps_per_mm[Z_AXIS]);
#if ENABLED(BABYSTEP_ZPROBE_OFFSET)
zprobe_zoffset += offs;
refresh_zprobe_zoffset(); // This will babystep the axis
#else
thermalManager.babystep_axis(Z_AXIS, offs * planner.axis_steps_per_mm[Z_AXIS]);
#endif
}
#endif

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@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ void GcodeSuite::M851() {
const float value = parser.value_linear_units();
if (WITHIN(value, Z_PROBE_OFFSET_RANGE_MIN, Z_PROBE_OFFSET_RANGE_MAX)) {
zprobe_zoffset = value;
refresh_zprobe_zoffset();
SERIAL_ECHO(zprobe_zoffset);
}
else