Hi guys,
I already did some cuts with my mpcnc and I do have to say it works wonderfully. In the beginning I started out with ESTLCAM but it didn’t take long for the wait time to become too long and I can’t afford a license right now. Gotta save up for that first. So I put grbl 1.1 on my arduino and used universal gcode sender on the pc side. Works like a charm but the only problem I run into is that I cannot lock my steppers.
With Estlcam I squared up the machine and held it in place while the program started and waited until the steppers were engaged, then I could jog to the desired location. But in grbl this doesn’t seem to work since I cannot find any command to just engage the steppers. M17 is not working. So do any of you know a workaround for that?
Cheers in advance.
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Move it .1mm in any direction.
In UGS while connected go to machine firmware settings and chang $1 to 255 that is always on. Hint click another box then click save then close
Yes, that was it. Thank you so much Tim.
@barry99705 this didn’t work, as it just disabled the steppers right after the move again. But with the $1 setting it works like a charm.
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I have been using this combination for 4 or 5 years with diode laser and now the MPCNC. For 2 years I have a dedicated 3 D printer and will leave marlin there the CAM is all worked out for both now but you don’t have to change anything to use a new CAM program I just use GRBL. OR GCODE and your fine