Hi
I think I recall someone writing a calibration macro, but I’m not sure if it was for calibrating Y, testing squareness, or Z levelling. (all three would be handy).
I’ve searched for 20 minutes and can’t find them. Does anyone remember seeing/writing them, or am I imagining them? (Sometimes I do dream a little, LR4!)
Thanks
Mike
I posted and then thought I saw the answer in the list of threads on FluidNC. However the github repo it references has gone and its not on waybackmachine….
Does anyone have a copy of the files?
Or alternative macros? thanks in advance..
I wrote a Z leveling script but I’m not sure what the best version is right now. You’d have to peruse this thread. I have intentions of updating a Z leveling WebUI 3 extension but who knows when I’ll get to that.
Hi Jason,
excellent. that was the one I remember seeing. I dont really know gcode other than G0 but I might give it a spin and see if will work for me
many thanks
Mike
I’ve not got your very cool macro/extension to work yet.
I am using V3 of the GUI on a PC. I have tried running it as a file and also as a macro.
The code runs, it homes x,y and z. Then it stops with the following message in the STATUS panel,
“INFO: PRINT, Move to initial Y position 55”
So I guess it’s not running the following line
G00 Y# F#
I have also installed your Hold Monitor extension, which is working but not displaying anything except for first HOME message…
Am I doing something daft? do you know what the problem might be?
You’ll have to open that code in something like notepad ++ or vscode. The first few lines are instructions for things you need to change for your specific machine.
Yes I made edits to the code (parameters at top only) before I ran it. I didn’t change anything at the point where it hangs….. unless there was a typo on a parameter. I’m heading into workshop soon I will check then
Ive got to the workshop, everything is rebooted and still same problem.
Also there were no problems with my edits, I double checked them and compared them to the last posted version of the code posted by Ryan in Notepad++ using a compare plugin.
Could this be a problem with v3 of the GUI/FluidNC parsing things differently?
Post your gcode and I’ll take a look.
I will also note that Z leveling is the easiest part of calibration so I wouldn’t waste too much time on this.
zlevel.gcode (4.0 KB)
many thanks.
I dont know why but I found it very fiddly when I did it before. This will be a bonus if I can get it to work.
Ive had various versions with different file type suffixes, .txt .g .gco .gcode but it didnt make much difference, I am clutching at straws.
My version is very similar but I have some updates to use G1 instead of G0 in a bunch of places because G0 ignores feedrate and uses max feedrate. Let me go test it since it’s been awhile since I’ve used it.
Hmm, I get the same behavior as you. This definitely worked before. I’m wondering if it’s a firmware issue? What version of FluidNC do you have? I currently have 3.9.7 which I think has some known issues. Going to try different versions.
Well, I get the same behavior on 3.9.9 (released this morning) and 3.9.5. I see that if I remove a couple messages, it gets further.
It’s very odd. I turned on debug and it outputs the one message and the job ends.
[MSG:DBG: Homing done]
<Idle|MPos:0.000,0.000,0.000|FS:0,0|SD:25.33,/sd/_zlevel.gcode>
[MSG:INFO: PRINT, Move to Initial Y Position 50]
[MSG:DBG: /_zlevel.gcode job sent]
<Idle|MPos:0.000,0.000,0.000|FS:0,0|WCO:0.000,0.000,0.000>
[G92:0.000,0.000,68.730]
I see that if I remove both “Move to Initial” print messages, it continues further but that’s as much as I had time to poke it.
I think I was running 3.9.4 a long time, so I might see if that behaves any differently.
I just used this last week without issue. I am out of town today, but I can post my code when I get home tomorrow. I am using the latest fluidnc as of 2 weeks ago with webui-3
ahh thats a relief, the number one suspect is always …. me
i am on v3.9.5
thanks…