I'm having trouble finding and loading the universal g code sender onto my laptop. It took me forever to get the grbl controller on my laptop, only to find out that it doesn't work well with the xpro. I'm at the door way of getting my CNC fully operational but need some help with the universal gcode sender, how to install it on my laptop and where to find it. Thanks Dashell1
well, how about Googling for the web site? the first link I see is for winder/Universal-G-Code-Sender ยท GitHub and you want the 1.0.9 build linked about half way down. the install instructions say: what that means is if you are on windows, double click the .jar file if you are on Mac or Linux, double click the start.sh file and of course you need Java installed as well, it probably is already, but if it is not, then java.com: Java + You
I'm not sure what's going on, but I couldn't get it to run either. I had to go down to the nightly builds section and download the Classic GUI build. Once you get it unzipped, run the .bat file. That should work. BTW, I have a version about three months old on three laptops and get different results on each one. One works fine, one doesn't work at all and on the other, the visualizer doesn't work. I haven't spent any time trying to troubleshoot the problem, I just use the laptop that works.
just a little note not sure if it will help but i have been using universal gcode sender with out problem went to use it today and when i tried to open it it wouldn't open downloaded and reinstaled it still nothing did some digging I updated my java on my computer since last time i used it well did a check and the update from java online did not work seems to be having a problem downladed the offline version and now i have java and gcode sender is working again just something to check make sure your java is working correctly
My problem seems to have started when I uninstalled all of the old versions of JAVA a couple of days ago. I reinstalled the newest version today and the latest version of UGS still doesn't work.
that's what happened to mine I updated java and uninstalled all old versions thought I was good till I went to the java site and ran a check on the version of java on my computer and it was screwed up so I downloaded the offline update of java and reinstalled it and now it is working I'm am in no way a expert on any of this still getting my feet wet and working threw issues as I go maybe someone else can give more info I figured I post what I did maybe it'll help someone in the future
Just tried that and it didn't work either. I installed the 64bit version and couldn't gt that to verify, so I uninstalled that and installed the 32bit version. That verified, but the current version of UGS still doesn't work. This is my desktop, so I don't use it to drive my Ox anyway, but it would be nice to figure out what the problem is. I'm no expert either, but I do know my way around Windows. It doesn't help sometimes. btw Dashelli, if You go into the release_files directory, there is a batch file to run UGS so you don't have to type in the command line format.
I couldn't open the .jar file, nothing would open it. I did finally get it to work via the batch file, so I'm happy with that. Now it's on to calibrating the machine.
