OpenBuilds CONTROL Software

UHOOO I LOVEEEE thanks, it's perfect!!!!!

 

How do you add a e-stop button to the Grbl settings if you are using a Arduino uno board with openbuild firmware. Where do you terminate the button to

 

so i would need to use the A0 pin and ground
correct?

 

I use both emergency switches. The one that only stops the program from running, the A0 to ground, and the one that cuts off the power to the whole system, the one that Craig linked to Amazon.

 

Is the config that yall are using is the Openbuild JDs garage and is that IO point a standard for all configs

 

Hi Peter,
Looking for some help -
No matter what we try, cannot get the laser to turn off between letters in Control or Lightburn.
Almost seems like the PWM isn't turning off to 0 completely. Green traverse lines are always being etched, resulting in messy etching.

Combo is Acro 510 and Opt PLH3D-XT with the CNC adapter.

Any ideas?

 

Got it, had it wired to the tool enable - thanks much!
Jon

 

To whom it may concern:

I am trying to set the soft-limits for a desktop CNC machine running the X32 BlackBox controller. I do not have any hard-limit switches enabled.

When I “incrementally jog” the X-axis (no other axes are connected as yet) but it does not go into feed-hold or stop.

I have attached a back-up of the settings from the controller.

What am I doing wrong or is it not possible to do what I want to do?

Thank you for the support.

 

Thank you for the reply, Peter,

For your first question, are you referring to the setting of the pre-defined position or the bottom screenshot referring to “G53” gotozero options?

Can the options in the “gotozero” drop-down be changed? I am asking as my machine cannot travel those distances. It is made for a specific-function for material testing. I would not want to travel more than +/- 2 mm for each axis.

Or do I run my own G53 sequence? The machine axes are in the correct position at this point.

Thank you for the help.

 

I am not quite following you, but I will test.

 

Thank you, Peter,

Tried it and had messages stating it could not find the hard limit switches, which I do not have.

 

Apologies, I stated at the beginning of our thread but did not mention it again above. I do not have hard-limit switches.

What is the best procedure to follow then? Just keep using G28 and G30?

 

Thank you for the understanding.

I cannot use soft limits without hard limits switches, is that correct? This then would allow homing of the system and the soft and hard limits can work.

Is that a correct definition?

 

You are right... My bad!

I assumed!

Thank you again for your assistance. I will make sure to book note the above from GitHub.

Thank you again for the support and great software.

 

Thank you, David, this is extremely helpful.

Thank you again.

 

Is there a log file stored somewhere where I can see more info? I have an error all of a sudden (error 2, no response from the controller, closing port) and I want to see what can have caused it since the machine ran fine last time and I have not made any changes at all since then.
I tired to update control, from 1.0.30 to 1.0.37, and my Teensy 4.1, running GRBLhal, and I still have the same error. I can connect and run the machine on IOSender. It shows no errors.

 

Machine sat for a few months with no activity and when CONTROL updated to 1.0.377, I seem to have lost any display updating of the machine's work coords. If I manually jog to a location and set zeros, jog away, and then gotozero, the machine does as expected and returns perfectly. However, the GUI does not show the current coords as the machine is moving around. Is there a new setting that it defaulted to something else that I need to return to an actually useful setting?