Brand new to openbuilds, I just bought and build the LEAD 1515. I previously had the New Wave Shark Piranha and had bought the New Wave Laser and New Wave 3D digitizer. I figured out how to adapt the laser to the Openbuilds Blackbox, but can not find anything on the 3D digitizer. Is there anyway to make this work, has anyone done this before? I don’t want to buy a new one since I have used it twice and was like $250.
do you have a link for the digitizer, google is failing to find a 'new wave 3d digitizer' for me. Assuming it is a probe, I guess you would connect it as for any other probe on the BlackBox. docs:xyzprobe:start [OpenBuilds Documentation]
If it does wire simply, then just needs the addition of a software toolchain (CONTROL does not support 3D probing) as well - no recommendations on our end: you'd need something that supports Grbl 1.1
bCNC can do the probing for 'mostly flat' things. for full 3D, a plugin can be done if it has not been done already. (send me a probe and I will write it )
Here is the link from where I got it. 3D Digital Duplicator at Grizzly.com It very well can just be wired in but New Wave is connected with ribbon wires and quick connects. So I would have to figure out the wiring and make my own harness.
Yes. the GRBL controller will do whatever the Gcode tells it to do, including probiing, so this can be done if a GUI can be convinced to send the correct Gcode instructions and interpret the results. bCNC already has 'scan flatish things' built in (for example for engraving PCBs which are never flat), and it also has a mechanism for Python plugins. such a plugin can do the hard work of figuring out where to move to next and send the Gcodes to do it, and interpret the results.
Would I still be using Openbuilds Control as the main program for all of this and be adding to it? I am confused, as I am not much of a coder in that sense.
No, you would be using whatever program supports the features you want, as long as the program speaks grbl. bCNC, cncjs are a few, but there are a ton.
