Very pleased with my MPCNC build so far - have drawn the crown and a few other random dxf’s and did a little bit of carving in MDF.
I am using a Ramps 1.4 controller and can’t figure out how to get Estlcam to auto-home - all steppers seem to stop as soon as one limit switch activates.
Is this possible in Estlcam?
Estlcam 12, when used as a controller, can only square 4 motors. So it’s not possible to square without an OpenCNCShield.
I only need it to square 4 motors though?
Is the OpenCNCShield used inplace of the ramps? Or as well as?
The you replace te ramps with an open-cncshield. The open-cncshield uses an extra arduino of esp32 to autosquare (and for some other functions). I use the old one (version 1), @Tokoloshe used (?) the version 2. Timos werkstatt only sells version 2 anymore.
Is there an alternative to Estlcam that can auto-square a ramps controller?
If I add an LCD to my ramps board - will Marlin be able to auto-square the axes?
I don’t know, I have always used Estlcam.
I’ve got absolutely no idea.
Yes, but V12 does X, Yx2, Z. There are not configuration options. You need Xx2 and Yx2.
Cheers
When I first built my Primo, it was using a RAMPS clone board, with Marlin firmware, and was able to auto-square. I did not have any adjustments for pull-off though, the actual endstops were physically squared. With the Primo this was relatively easy, This did not require an LCD, though when I added an LCD later, it became much easier to use the machine.
Great info - thank you!
What software did you use to auto-square?
we didn’t auto square, we had to manually square the endstops.
Marlin can auto-square now, M666, IIRC.
The Primo was more than easy enough to manually adjust the endstops though.