Hey all,
I’m running an MPCNC Primo with a Rambo 1.4 board. When I go to machine out my design in ESTLCam, the tool moves to the zero point but then does not continue to move throughout the rest of the print. I can move the tool in each direction through the motion page, but I cannot get the dang thing to carve out a design. Is this a control board issue, or some settings in ESTLcam? Sorry for the lack of info but I’m pretty new to all of this. Thank you!
Max
Check your estlcam settings…
Under setup go to CNC Programs and make sure your Feed Unit is set to Millimeter per minute
Its ok to have your bits in mm/s. That’s how most of us do it. But the feed unit here needs to be mm/m. If its feeding it 10mm/s as your feed rate the controller is reading that as 10mm/m so its moving so slow you cant see it move.
Jonthan’s suggestion is the most likely issue, but there are a few other reasons for this behavior. If you use the upload icon on the editor toolbar and upload the entire g-code file to a post, we will be able to tell what is going on. This is the upload icon:
I had a similar issue when I started, which turned out to be a M0 (Pause) in the g-code.
That was it, thank you very much!
Awesome! Glad I could help!
This is good to know for future issues with ESTLCam. Thank you!
