Turk the inner cut were selected. Outer cuts indicated by orange border, inner cuts by the light blue border.

 

Thanks for the guide. That should come in nice and helpful for people

 

Hello Turk (and Ryan),

Quick question. Have you experienced a squeaking sound when the gantry moves along the y-axis (around the mid point of the Y-axis)? This recently starting happening on my machine. Haven't had time to troubleshoot but the sound is only coming from one of the rails.

P.S. Petra is a great place to visit. It's breathtaking... but only the first time around

 

And bloody expensive! I think it was something like US$100 or $150 to get in to the site!

 

I think it is one of wheels is causing, could be the bearing. If it is, give us a shout and we can replace it.

Best Regards

Ryan

 

can this machine be run on mach3?

 

ok sorry I missed that part, your build series is very good, after learning on my tiny cnc3020 i am ready to pull the trigger on a bigger machine, are these kit avaliable in the us? I am one of those "I need it yesterday" kinda guy

 

Hey,

Our full kit uses the xPro controller, which isn't compatible with Mach3 i am afraid.

However we do sell mechanical kits if you wish to add your own electronics.

We ship all our kits worldwide

Ryan

 

Hi I have recently finished building the Workbee Cnc 1000 x 750mm but I am having some problems with the homing sequence GRBL settings. I am pretty sure the machine is wired correctly, and it moves correctly when Grbl settings are as the setup manual instructed. But with those settings homing the z axis moves the wrong way. I therefore used the suggested homing invert setting $23 = 4 and homing works great. But after homing the machine z axis will not lower as it has maxed out the soft limit at -120mm (it will only attempt to move 120mm upwards hitting the bottom of the z axis and getting stuck). Any help would be much appreciated

 

Cheers for your reply, I am really looking forward to using the machine.
The machine motion moves as it is supposed to i.e -z = down -x = left and -y = forward as I think that is what the instruction manual said. It is only the z homing part of the cycle that is giving me issues which I fixed using the inversion. Its the z axis soft limits that seem to be the problem after homing as the machine position sets itself to x = -3mm y = -3mm z = -117mm as the starting position (with a 3mm bounce setting) and can not go any more negative than z=-120mm which is the set machine limit. The z axis can attempt to move in the positive direction (up) but it hits the bottom z - axis plate.

I will try reversing the stepper motor wires later to see it that helps.

 

Cheers mate no worries ill play around with some more settings tonight to try a figure out what is going on yeah if the z was -3mm it would be happy days.

 

I will post them later when im back home I noticed that your GRBL had $3 = 6 or something set where mine is currently set to $3 = 0 i tried adjusting this but it inverted my axis incorrectly.

 

Here are my GRBL code parameters I have found a temporary workaround by manually resetting the cncxpro after homing is complete I have also included a short video of what happens when I rehome the machine after the physical reset.

 

bonjour j'habite en france y'a t'il des frais de douane en commander le kit chez Ooznext merci

 

Hi MadinAmman,

Great build! I have my screw driven Workbee built and partially wired, but I cant find diagrams for Arduino and CNC shield for wiring the pause, play, and emergency stop up to the power supply and the shield. In fact if you can point me in the direction of a good resource for Arduino CNC shield diagrams in general I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Hunter

 

Hi, nice build! I am looking for wiring diagrams for the emergency stop, pause, play, from the power supply to Arduino CNC shield. I build a large screw driven workbee and I am trying to drive it with Arduino CNC Shield, like you but it is very hard to find wiring diagrams. I think I have it for the motors and limit switches, but not the emergency stop. But if you have good diagrams of motors and limit switch placement and wiring I would take those too. Ooznest and the Open builds seem to be putting the limit switches in very different places.

 

I was about to order a 1000 x 1000 screw driven workbee but they are in the process of changing the controller from the CNC xPro to Duet 32bit ARM Controller which runs from either ethernet or wifi as not usb , sorry if this is a stupid question but does this mean it will need an internet connection all the time ?
Thanks

 

@CH18 Hi, thanks for taking an interest in our machine. That is correct we are in the process of changing the controller, and we are so excited for the possibilities it will open up. For your question, an internet connection is not needed. As long as its on the same wifi network as the computer you are operating it from that is ok. Even if you turn off the internet, the Wifi still operates locally, so it will still operate. With an ethernet cable, no wifi or internet are needed, it is hardwired directly to your computer.

 

Hi, I have just received my workbee 1010 with the Duet controller - still working on the mechanical assembly at the moment. Did you get your machine - if so I would love to know how you are getting on with the Duet. Alex.

 

so will 1.5kw spindle work on 1000/1000 bee ?
by schematic it's 4kg on 85mm and 3kg on 65mm