Just got my Altmill 4x4 all together, ran the spindle break in code on gsender. Everything moves right homes fine. Now I’m trying to run the surfacing that’s in gender. I’m using a 22mm surfacing bit, it starts fine, but everytime it makes the turn around the back left corner it stops and error codes 10 ( estop asserted clear and reset). I tried reducing the area but same result.
@GottWood Can you try setting your zero a bit to the right and back of it’s current front-left location? Like 20mm in both directions. And then define an even smaller surfacing area. Maybe remove the bit while you troubleshoot?
@GottWood From the picture, it looks like it surfaced most of the wasteboard. Is that correct?
When at the front-left (your zero), what are the machine coordinates (the grey values in gSender) ? The Y value for your surfacing routine should be smaller than that value. Same for X, When you jog the spindle all the way to the right, the X machine coordinate needs to be bigger than the X in the surfacing routine.
No, it has only done one path all the way to the back and I now have it going all the way to the right on the X axis, but goes too far and alarms 10 stopping. I even tried to lower the g code X path to 900, but it still goes all the way to the bump stop on the back right.
In the picture, it’s the left side (from front-left to rear-left) that has been milled ? Then it goes from rear-left to rear-right but triggers alarm 10 a few inches away from the left ?
In the surfacing module, if you change Y from 1200 to say 1000 (so well clear of the rear), does it still trigger alarm 10).
Are you working in imperial or metric ?
@GottWood Never mind my last question. I saw your last reply where you say it travelled from rear-left to rear-right but still triggered alarm 10 with x=900
It’s weird that it travelled all the way to the right stop even with x=900. That’s like 12" shorter than the table width.
Note the machine coordinate as it moves. If gSender shows a movement of 300mm, does a tape measure show the same?
In gSender, what do you have for the xyz maximum travel? That essentially defines the size of your table.
I reached my limit apparently last night for commenting, so I had to wait 22hrs. Good news is though I figured it out! One of the switches on my X axis motor was wrong. I’m a happy camper now, for now lol. Thank you!
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@GottWood It’s good that you figured it out. I’ve moved your post to the gSender category, as you had put it in the UGS category. I’ve marked it as resolved and closed it.