@Swinly You’re welcome. However, nothing is solved yet. With luck, it’s some glitch that will be simple to resolve.
On feeds, slower is not necessarily better. Depending on the speed that your router is set to, too slow can result in burning. The file that you posted is a very shallow pocket, if I read the code correctly. That also enters into the feed rate. I used to do everything by ear. You can always start slow in your gcode, then increase on the fly in gsender or UGS. Lately, I’ve been using as my starting point this feeds and speeds chart. It’s not a Bible by any means, but it gets me in the ballpark. For me, much of this is trial and lots of error.
Hello everyone. I have a minor bug I think. Loaded a major carve of 300,000 lines using a 1/8 tapered mill. Everything loaded in gsender, the project started carving, and the line counter started going up. Around line 3000, the counter stopped and the graphic display froze. The CNC continued to carve as expected and finished the project 5 hours later. At this point I had to shutdown gsender to regain control.
My first guess would be that the buffer on my PC was full but it should have emptied slowly and progressed onward. Instead all the graphics froze and gsender would not shutdown, pause or return to normal.
@Panamapete Pierre: If you reply to this, you will see an icon at the top of the reply window with an up arrow graphic. Clicking that opens a window that allows you to choose between a file on the internet and one on your PC. In terms of gcode files, accepable extensions are .nc and .gcode. If your file is not one of those, you can change it in windows before attaching it. I don’t know what the file size restriction is, but even with that many lines, you should be fine. These are simply text files, so they are not large, generally.
There is an excellent video by Menglor earlier in this thread that shows how to attach a file.
Just courius but is there a fearture for when my dumb self clicks the “Zero X” button instead of the “Go To” button next to it that undoes the previous action? Or returns it to the previously set Zero?
@Swinly Everything that I read says that there is no undo command in grbl gcode. Since that is all gsender is doing when you click zero x, I believe that you are out of luck, unfortunately. I can sympathize, having done the same thing more than once. If this is happening more often than you can stand, you could always create macros for the two commands. It will not be as convenient as clicking a button on the interface, but it would likely eliminate the “blast it” moment.
Hi Guys, here is a little trick I read somewhere and the experts have probably seen this but for us newbies it is worth repeating.
When lowering your Z slide a piece of paper on the project. Go into “precise” mode and lower slowly while jiggling the paper. As soon as the paper catches go +Z once, remove paper, then -Z twice and set for zero. This works specially well for sharp fine point that tired old eyes can’t see that well.
I’m going to start closing these old release threads since as soon as a new version is released any comments or issues can be directed to the most recent release feedback thread.