I'm making my own using a teensy board. I used the contour shuttle xpress for awhile, but want more buttons and potentiometers. Peter just added kb shortcuts to control feed and tool override which I'll add to it soon.
I have a bluepill here somewhere, and a Leonardo..... was thinking of just a simple shuttle knob, but i think more buttons are more bettah!
Can someone please tell me how to edit macros? I have some made and I need to make changes but I can't for the life of me figure out how.
Hi all, What Gcode standard and/or dialect is used in OpenBuilds control software? Where can I look for the list of G codes (such as G90 and G91 etc) and their format? Thank you and thank you for the great software.
Hi all, I know that Raspberry pi isn't officially supported, but if anyone else out there is using this with the Blackbox controller, I have a couple of questions: I'm using a Pi4 which seems to run the machine fine, BUT, it stopped after about 10-minutes of running. Could this be something to do with the screensaver on the Pi? I have found how to disable this, so am curious if anyone else has experienced this? I am using the standard 7" Pi screen but have found that the OpenBuilds CONTROL software doesn't fit this screen.......I cannot access the g-code editor or simulation etc. Are there any workarounds for this? If not I'll have to use a standard monitor.......... Thanks for any assistance
7" is just too small - but ultimately its not the inches, its the pixels resolution. CONTROL will fit on any screen if it can provide 1280 × 960 or higher Check the power supply you are using for the Pi?
It's not a biggy (pun intended) but it makes for a nice compact setup next to the machine, but i do like to see the simulation before running just to confirm it's the correct program! I know the power supply is important, but I found that my wife's Kindle supply runs it fine........hope she doesn't need it any time soon . I'm going to try it again tomorrow with the screensaver disabled and will try another power supply if the problem remains. Thanks for your advice.
Kindle Fire charger is only 1.8A Pi4 PSU is 3A Raspberry Pi4 Official USB-C 15.3W power supply Black 5.1V 3A
As far as screen size goes, I started off with a 7" screen and switched to a 12" touchscreen in portrait mode. I love it.
Sidenote, for almost the same price of a Pi+LCD - I like these next to my personal machines - and CONTROL does fit (; Original Box PIPO X10 Pro 64GB Intel Z8350 Quad Core 10.8 Inch Windows 10 TV Box Tablet Tablet PC from Computers & Office on banggood.com It's got a 1920*1280 screen (;
Hello, I've got a ps3 game pad that I've mapped to key strokes using antimicro. I can move the stepper motors, move the pen up/down, turn the laser on/off. But i'd like it to do more. I'd like to be able to press buttons on the game pad to Run Job, Cancel, etc. What are the commands to do these that I could put into a macro? Also, is there a list somewhere with all of the default hot keys used in openbuilds Control? So far I've just gone through the keyboard pushing buttons one at a time and seeing what happens. Thanks, Wolfgang
Wizards and Tools > Customize Keyboard Shortcuts Defaults (you can change to whatever you want it to be) Run = space Cancel = esc
Thanks Peter!!!!! Another question... Has anyone interfaced an analog signal (joystick) to jog their machine? Seems like this might be prohibitively complicated. Antimicro doesn't seem to handle analog signals as far as I can tell, so I assume I'd need to find another key mapper tool that would handle analogs. Wolfgang
Stupid question.. since I am trying to setup many quick "engravings" (my in laws have been cutting slivers of their christmas trees for the last 40 years, and I decided to carve the date into each one).. as far as I can tell you can only select a basic square bottomed endmill/bit.. is there a way to set it to a v bit, or ball nose.. I am using a v bit and I set the diameter to 0.1mm which might work (running as I type), but would be nice to have a bit choice option in cam.openbuilds.com. Also side note, I had to add mymachine.openbuilds.com to slash etc slash hosts (I had to type this out because the forum security was freaking out and blocking my post... a little overkill,....) as my network DNS is locked down pretty tight, and it was not pulling localhost from the authoritative dns server.
Select the no offset option. It effectively ignores endmill diameter as it doesn't do any offset Dns/network setup is your baby You dont need the integration, just use Save Gcode and then Open gcode to move the gcode around too
I'm looking for the ability to move the gantry, and push a button which saves the current X,Y position to a text file. I'm guessing if this is possible in openbuilds control, it would be done through macros>Add macro>Javascript? I'm no js expert, are there any examples of this functionality? Thanks! Wolfgang
I know, I was not asking anyone to make changes, more of an FYI in case others keep getting the download option in cam.openbuilds.com instead of send code options.
As an experiment I tried running the Pi4 with the screensaver disabled still using the KIndle charger, the machine stopped after a couple of minutes. I plugged in the new Pi4 power supply and it ran perfectly. I ran a V-carve program of the Mayan calender to see how it would do and was very pleasently surprised.......really chuffed with the result. Thanks again for your help.
Another stupid question.... For some reason.. only one of my svg's (for now).. looks fine in inkscape.. but when I pull it into cam.openbuilds.com, the text is way off up right.. I try to select the text to move it.. but the stupid grid just spins around... anyway to lock the grid in place so I can just move the text... It does move.. just while the screen spins and I cannot get it to the right place..
Click the Transform tool on the left toolbar. Click the entity, enter the position numbers If position are wrong, investigate whether they were converted to paths
I think I asked this but can't find it. Does control have a json api? Doesn't look like it. Thinking of making a jog control attached to a raspberry pi and am looking for the simplest method of sending commands to control.
Not really JSON, but socket.io events. Read index.js and look at all the socket.on and socker.emit events (theres no documentation for the API, but the code is clean and plain and easy to read)
I've just purchased a cheap crosshair laser to add to my WorkBee to make locating edges / centers etc. easier for new users. I plan on creating a g-code macro to move the X & Y axes a known distance which will be the offset distance of the laser from the spindle center. Is it possible to zero the X & Y axes on the OpenBuilds Control using a g-code macro once it reachs the position? I know I can zero the X & Y on the control by clicking them, but would like to automate the process if it's possible. Thanks for any help or advise
