Hey everyone, just finished building my lead machine and had a few questions. Everything seems to be working great and is connected properly. 1. I have the XYZ probe, when probing and setting a zero on the work piece the Z axis is zeroed above the workpiece, do I need to manually jog it down after probing? 2. I created a few g code files to test on carbide create but they do not seem to work on the machine. I load them onto openbuilds control and can see everything fine but when I hit run job nothing happens. Thanks
Hi Alex, as long as the z probing was setup correct and the offset is showing correct on the coordinates you do not need to move the tool down to zero. I have not tried Carbide Create, but there is probably a post processor selection in the setup somewhere? Maybe you need to select for GRBL? Post your cnc file here and we can see why it's not starting. Cheers Gary
Okay thanks for the z probe info, I will test it all out again. I have tried changing the post processor on the program to GRBL and it still has the same issues. I ran a simple job from the Openbuilds CAM software and it worked perfectly. I've attached a test file
Remove the M0 ( Line 5 ) M0 = Pause - See M Codes Not sure why they have it in there - the comment next to it is a tool call, so maybe they abuse that for tool changes, but for tool changes you actually want M6 not M0, so they are not following the GCODE standard correctly
