Anyone using klipper on the CNC have any suggestions for which estlecam post processor to use? I’m rebuilding the primo and I now have a time crunch to get it operational again. The plan was to go klipper, but there is no estlecam klipper gcode option in v11 setup basic options. It may need to stay octo and marlin for this summer cut season… But thought it might be worth asking.
I think Marlin would be the closest. I remember people writing klipper macros for things like G92 and G0/G00. But maybe that was solving a different issue.
Isn’t @azab2c running his LR3 on klipper? Maybe he will know
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Not yet, and I’ll probably be sticking with Marlin until if/when done modding my LR3 to IDEX.
However, looks like @Autonomous was running Klipper on his LR3 (with beefy 2.25HP router) as far back as Aug '22 …
Sorry it has been so long on this. I’ve been seeing posts about how to control CNC over wifi and klipper offers a pretty the clean way, once set up.
Set up is the trick though. I modified the marlin post processor to change all G0X commands to remove the place holding zero so they are GX commands, enabled curves, but they are relative… There is a checkbox there and if wrong it goes the wrong way around the curve.
I have a problem though. Apparently the tool change pause doesn’t work so that macro needs to change. To date I’ve been splitting tool change u operations into multiple files. Neglecting that step, it moved to home and paused for a second and then kept going. Plunging deep into foam and while not damaging anything on the machine. It dinged the workpiece:
Looking into the pause macro…
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