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what GUI software are you using? If it is Candle, ditch it, it does not handle multiple coordinate systems and has not been updated in years. I...
The gcode plotter is a windows program so you have to tell Mac to run it as such. not having a Mac, I cannot tell you how to do that. Or you can...
From the Optlasers web site Aluminum is HIGH heat conductance, like copper, 6w is not going to touch it since the heat is conducted away faster...
If we dissect that line of Gcode we can get an idea of what is going on. G3 X24.0944 Y9.8490 I-0.005 J-0.0497 G3 indicates a CCW arc. X and Y are...
Check your grounding. I suspect that the machine and laptop have different 'ground', if you put a AC voltmeter between the laptop (casing of the...
What is your ambient temperature? The drivers may be overheating and cutting out for a moment now and then causing just a few lost steps. Increase...
If your workpieces are only 24" then you only need to have a vertical edge onto which to clamp them on a conventional LEAD or Workbee type of...
Travel directions are critical to the safe and successful operation of a cnc router. Limit/home switches at the positive ends of travel ensures...
No, if homing works then all is well. no, but you must also not reset nor power cycle the BB during a job. Always home after power up/interface...
I built a Z probe that does not rely on bit to plate conductivity, this way the bit never comes up against a hard stop. Optoisolated Z probe
according to the github for makerbase it should support GRBL, but the message you got indicates it does not have a bootloader (this helps things...
What exactly are you trying to do?
GRBL saves the offsets from machine home so after a home your offsets are exactly where you left them. It does not save '0', machine zero is set...
1 - Candle is ancient and has not been updated in quite some time. 2 - Candle does not support coordinate systems other than G54, ie if you set...
GRBL (the firmware in the controller) does do velocity smoothing on shallow corners, but for steeper corners it has to stop. This can be removed...
GRBL is the controller. You are thinking of the GUI, like OBCONTROL or bCNC or UGS, those just send the Gcode to GRBL and have no concept of...
The microprocessor used in the Arduino Uno has limited memory, and GRBL uses about 98% of it, there is simply no space to add backlash...
You only need 3 wires from arduino to each clearpath, ground, step, direction. Optionally you can also wire in the 'stepper enable' pin. Note...
which direction is it 'cutting'?
This is called backlash and is much easier to diagnose if you also tell us which way you were cutting, clockwise or anticlockwise, and indicate in...
