Has anyone put together a quick start/jump start guide to get an LR with JackPot up and running with Millmage over Wi-Fi?
As a relatively new participant in the CNC fun zone, the all-in-one aspect of Millmage is quite appealing to get off the ground quickly.
I’d be happy to assist in putting together such a guide if someone can help with the technical aspects.
There is alot of info here:
From memory you just tell millmage it’s a grbl machine and give it the IP address, that’s how you do it in lightburn.
We have!
I’m unable to post links yet, but search YouTube for “Getting Started With MillMage”.
It looks interesting enough to buy the license once it is released. But i already have the vectric Aspire license. MM gotta to mature really fast (i dont doubt the lightburn team will make it happen)
I’ll take another look once it’s ‘released’. I’m pretty disappointed with it currently. As a satisfied lightburn user I had hopes. Not even high ones, but it’s a pass from me in its current form.
Well yes. But in maybe 1/2 to 1 year they may have some nice thing going on.
Maybe they can take a look at Vectric tool section (stock) you get a ton of profiles out of the box, and most important, the ability to import tool libraries from Amana, spetool etc.
Do you have specific reasons for being disappointed other than “it’s missing V-carving?” Saying “I’m disappointed” without anything specific is hard for me to act on.
I was just messing with it and found a big involving the icons. Is there an official way to submit bug reports? I just emailed support.
Edit: Support emailed me back right away. Very responsive.
V carving is a big one. I get that variable height calculations is tricky.
The inlay tool - supporting V bit pocketing is fundemtnal imo.
The visual communication is also not what I expected.
In lightburn if you set a profile as fill it turns solid - I expected the same visual reference in millmage for pocketing.
For other operations I’m also used to seeing the width of the toolpath reflect the tool used. So I can see immediately if it’s a 1/4 or a 1/8 bit by the width of the line.
The preview keeps defaulting to the wood grain - even if you change it to something easier to see.
There was something else funky about selecting operations and layers but I’d need to check again.
Edit: I explain it in this post:
You can ignore the inlay bit -this was before I understood what I meant by inlay wasn’t what you meant by inlay.
@Aaron_Lightburn - Thanks for the link. I’ve been through that and it is great for covering all the MM basics.
My inquiry was more specific to using MM with FluidNC for the LR similar to what V1E put together for Estlcam.
I plan to work on such a guide once I have a bit more time and have everything working.
I think it would be awesome to have a step-by-step guide that takes a new LR user through all the steps to output the test crown file or V1E logo.
IMO, having a single app like MM to handle everything is much more intuitive for newer users like myself and a handy guide would ensure they get up and running with minimal ambiguity and frustration.
Keep up the great work on MM.