Hello everyone Just downloaded a copy of Carveco on their monthly subscription, what is the best file extension to pick when saving a gcode file. For my first attempt I chose G-Code (mm) (tap) file., is it the best to use with a Openbuilds Blackbox. Also my program brings up an error code T1 M6. I read it has something to do with tool changes, can this just be deleted from the Gcode file? If not how do I get around it. Thank you in advance Steve aka AMPMAN
See if there's a Grbl post available? Grbl does not support the M6 command, see list of supported Gcodes about halfway down on the page at: gnea/grbl
Hello everyone, like to thank Peter for the response to my post. After doing some more exploring of the Carveco file selection, going through the dropdown selections at the bottom is WORKBEE (INCH) and WORKBEE (MM) choices, so I chose WORKBEE in MM and the file ran perfect and no error code came up. The WORKBEE files are saves as .gcode files. Thank you again Steve aka Ampman
Have asked the relevant team to take it up with them took a while to get the Vectric posts included too, so probably soon!
I have been using Carvco as well. I asked them for suggestions and they recommended I try using UGS GRBL (inch) (*.gcode) or UGS GRBL (mm) (*.gcode). So far I have been using the inch one and it has been working perfectly.
Hi, all, my first post here, I'm Rob from Carveco. In answer to the above, we are working on putting in an Openbuilds post into the next release we do. But all of the above are valid solutions, most of the postprocessors are formed off the standard GCode.mm/inch with things added and removed. The T1 M6 error is a toolchanger and the line can be deleted and it should run no problems at all. But it has been removed on some of the other machines that run GRBL, like the Sainsmart posts, Workbee posts, etc. We tend to do an update on a monthly basis where possible, so we will aim to get an update in that build. Thanks Rob
Hi Rob and welcome. Thank you for the clarification. There's been more posts about Carveco lately here and in the FB group, so glad you cleared that up. "Workbee" might be confusing to some. The Ooznest Workbee (the guys who originally designed the Workbee) use a Duet Controller while the OB Workbee is grbl based. Obviously this isnt true 100% of the time, but should probably be considered standard. And there's even Chinese knockoffs that use mach 3. Maybe a post name of OpenBuilds or BlackBox might be clearer and would certainly help all the LEAD and other OB machine owners out there.
Great, thanks for that, I added it to our release task as the name OpenBuilds Post Processors so when development do a release it should be in the update.
