Hello, I have an Acro 1510 with a Blackbox that I use as a pen plotter where a servo does the pen movements. I turn SVG's into Gcode with Sameer Puri's SVG2Gcode website: svg2gcode. This gcode generator always inserts 'M2', the 'program end' command, after the editable program end sequence. The pen plotter reacts to this by moving the servo to the 0-position (pen down). This is not ideal for me and I'm wondering if there's a way to change the interpretation of the M2 command, ignore it or exclude the servo for example. Thanks Elias
The behaviour is technically correct. M2 should disable the servo signal, and the servo should return to 0 position when the signal is stopped Best option, ask the CAM developer to make M2 optional (little tickbox somewhere in the UI?) Issues · sameer/svg2gcode Alternatively change pen mount so 0 is pen up and positive positions are pen-down
Thank you for the fast reply Peter! I understand the behaviour is correct. And so is adding the M2 command at the end of the Gcode file (as is dicussed here: Program End Sequence is not exactly same in exported GCODE · Issue #23 · sameer/svg2gcode ), I'll ask the CAM developer or think about a post processor. Thanks for the info!
