OpenBuilds CONTROL Software

@Peter Van Der Walt Well I'll be, this was it! I uninstalled Control and reinstalled it from the latest download and it works perfectly! 3D views are rendered instantly.

 

If you skip to the 10 minute mark, the automatic Z height offset is the main thing I’d love to see in Control. My parts operations usually require 2 - 4 tool changes and not having to re-probe the z height would be an amazing quality of life improvement.

 

Nice, I’ll order a suitable sensor and give that a go.

 

it’s actually your macro that Peter referred me to. I’ll check out your video.

edit: nice work, that part came out great.

 

OpenBuilds Control produces a permission denied port error when attempting to connect. I have attempted every USB port on the machine and get the same error.
Operating system is Ubuntu 22.04.2.

 

We'll be 1000 years past the last POTS Modem connected to a computer (or anything) and linux will still call serial port access group the Dialout group. That kind of clown show is the first step to being BSD, Linux boys! Remember that!

 

Thank you, that did the trick. Now to see if I can get LightBurn loaded and running.

 

I have an issue with a large gCode file i want to load.
It is an intricate shield design i found on thingiverse.

I succesfully created a carve on 25x25 cm, and now want to carve it on 700x700.
This file now crashes Openbuilds Control on rendering.

A couple of questions:
- Is there an option to disable rendering?
- My laptop is a Lenovo Yoga with a onboard intel gpu and a nvidia gtx1650; the latter being for 3D applications.
I can set my preference on which gpu a program runs in either windows or nvidia control panel.
No matter what i set OpenbuildsControl to; it always starts at gpu0 (onboard).
On rendering it switches for 1 second to GPU1(nvidia) and then back to gpu0.

Here is the gCode i try to run (35MB)
Here is the gCode of the smaller version that successfully ran (1.9mb)

 

Forcing the high performance GPU didnt seem to do much, although the diagnostics says it is in use.

See the enclosed file.

Without the renderer the file seems to work just fine, thanks

 

Carveco; grbl post.
But i noticed i had a tiiiiiiiny stepover, which generated an enormous toolpath, (which ran just fine without the renderer switched on)
Changed that and now it runs fine with the renderer. Thanks for your help

 

There may be problems with the limit switches. When I try to home the machine, the machine homes Z-Axis first and then tries to home X-Axis and Y-Axis but I hear/feel buzzing noises and I hit "Abort" button. I replaced one limit switch but I still have problems.

Code:

$0=10  ;  Step pulse time, microseconds
$1=255  ;  Step idle delay, milliseconds
$2=0  ;  Step pulse invert, mask
$3=5  ;  Step direction invert, mask
$4=1  ;  Invert step enable pin, boolean
$5=0  ;  Invert limit pins, boolean/mask
$6=0  ;  Invert probe pin, boolean
$10=1  ;  Status report options, mask
$11=0.020  ;  Junction deviation, millimeters
$12=0.002  ;  Arc tolerance, millimeters
$13=0  ;  Report in inches, boolean
$20=0  ;  Soft limits enable, boolean
$21=1  ;  Hard limits enable, boolean
$22=0  ;  Homing cycle enable, boolean (Grbl) / mask (GrblHAL)
$23=3  ;  Homing direction invert, mask
$24=100.000  ;  Homing locate feed rate, mm/min
$25=1000.000  ;  Homing search seek rate, mm/min
$26=250  ;  Homing switch debounce delay, milliseconds
$27=5.000  ;  Homing switch pull-off distance, millimeters
$30=1000  ;  Maximum spindle speed, RPM
$31=0  ;  Minimum spindle speed, RPM
$32=0  ;  Laser-mode enable, boolean
$100=321.400  ;  X-axis steps per millimeter
$101=321.400  ;  Y-axis steps per millimeter
$102=321.400  ;  Z-axis steps per millimeter
$110=2500.000  ;  X-axis maximum rate, mm/min
$111=2500.000  ;  Y-axis maximum rate, mm/min
$112=2500.000  ;  Z-axis maximum rate, mm/min
$120=150.000  ;  X-axis acceleration, mm/sec^2
$121=150.000  ;  Y-axis acceleration, mm/sec^2
$122=150.000  ;  Z-axis acceleration, mm/sec^2
$130=1000.000  ;  X-axis maximum travel, millimeters
$131=1000.000  ;  Y-axis maximum travel, millimeters
$132=100.000  ;  Z-axis maximum travel, millimeters
$I=custom

Machine has CNC Pro V3 controller, external stepper motor drivers, NEMA 34 stepper motors. When I use the Troubleshooting window and I press one of the limit switches, the limit switches goes on and I get "Alarm 1" message. OB Control is version 1.0.369. How can I fix the problem?

 

I think that V1.0.369 caused homing problems. Homing worked in V1.0.368

 

I found out that a small piece of wood prevented the gantry from hitting one of the limit switches. After cleaning out the "table" that the machine which is inside a cabinet is attached to, I got the machine working. Make sure that the table is clean.

 

I am blocked for asking questions?

 

I think new members have post limits to prevent spammers from making life difficult for the mods.

 

Where ist the grbl firmware flash tool? I only can flash the openbuild own devices...

 

And here’s some info on GRBL for ESP32.