Just finished a WorkBee1010 with a vPro3 and am using grbl 1.1. When I load a file into UGS and send it to grbl I am losing characters. For example; g code file line:...................................grbl output panel G54....................................................G4 G1 Z-0.365 F355.6............................G1Z-0.36F3.6 G17 G2 Y-17.773 J2.935...................G17G2Y-17.773J2.93 This results in error messages like the following because of characters dropped. (error:28) G-code command is missing a required value word. (error:2) Missing the expected G-code word value or numeric value format is not valid (error:33) Motion command target is invalid. I am at a loss for where to start looking for the problem. ANY advice would be most appreciated!!! Phil 43 years a math teacher; 2 weeks a CNCer.
Hi Phillip, Check your sender settings. There is a truncate setting and a max command length setting. You can make the max character setting bigger to 80 for example with no problem, and set your decimal to 3 or 4. Not sure why it would lose the 5 on the G54.. Post a file here for us to look at. What cam program are you using for making the files? Are you using a GRBL post processor? Gary
I think I have found my difficulty. Even though I set the baud rate in UGS at 115200, Windows 7 insisted on keeping it [at least some of the time] at 9600. Finally got Windows 7 to listen to my demands and the character loss seems to be under control. Thanks for the suggestions! Phil
