I need help understanding scale. When I go to run the code or outline the job it makes it like 3 times bigger, the logo bitmap is only like 3 inches wide but when it goes to print it its 6 inches wide.
Also on a side note when I jog it back home it moves like 1mm at a time
@Maker_Jamison can you post an image of your laserweb screen with this file and gcode generated?
Draw a square only perimeter of 50x50mm and then send the job and measure the outcome. What machine do you have? Look like a you added a diode to a router.
if I make the dpi on the bmp 2400dpi it gets close to the size I need but lining up future projects this way really seems like a pain. I’m posting the gcode here in a second
I have a jtech 2.8 on a x-carve, i’ll run that job
@Maker_Jamison no need, I thought you could have an issue with steps per mm but if you already using your xcarve it would have showed allready
The image above in LW is less than 50mm so there something funny going on here.
Here is some more fuel for the fire, when I load grbl 1.1f does all the same stuff, but the laser wont fire, it will if I click on the test laser button, but when i try and run the job it just goes through the motions but without the laser on.
The only way for the laser to turn on and work is if I have jtechs grbl file flashed to the board. J TECH GRBL 0.9g
@Maker_Jamison Thas another issue alltogther ( i also have a 3.8 jtech diode on a router with a gshield ). Lets first tackle the size issue
Just ran the 50x50mm svg outline and it printed it out at 311.15mmx311.15 12.25 inches square
Looks like you have something translating the gcode into Inches, that could be about 127mm if the input was 5 inches. Can you post image of the Setting and gcode section on setting for LW
Ok nothing there. So the first image with the RE at about 25mm high, can you generate the gcode and post it as a file somewhere that we csn see
Can I still assume that you xcarve can hit exactly the sized you generate? I’m looking tñat my old config on Grbl for that machine and steps per mm where 40 not 250
@Ariel_Yahni_UniKpty I have not tried to run a cnc file yet.
I have only used easel and easel wont connect to this version of firmware, I was going to export the gcode from easel and try it in the future once the laser is working
These are my original x-carve settings
x-carve general Settings
$0=10 (step pulse, usec)
$1=0 (step idle delay, msec)
$2=0 (step port invert mask:00000000)
$3=4 (dir port invert mask:00000100)
$4=0 (step enable invert, bool)
$5=0 (limit pins invert, bool)
$6=0 (probe pin invert, bool)
$10=115 (status report mask:01110011)
$11=0.020 (junction deviation, mm)
$12=0.002 (arc tolerance, mm)
$13=0 (report inches, bool)
$20=0 (soft limits, bool)
$21=0 (hard limits, bool)
$22=0 (homing cycle, bool)
$23=3 (homing dir invert mask:00000011)
$24=25.000 (homing feed, mm/min)
$25=750.000 (homing seek, mm/min)
$26=250 (homing debounce, msec)
$27=1.000 (homing pull-off, mm)
$30=1. (rpm max)
$31=0. (rpm min)
$100=160.000 (x, step/mm)
$101=160.000 (y, step/mm)
$102=188.976 (z, step/mm)
$110=760.000 (x max rate, mm/min)
$111=760.000 (y max rate, mm/min)
$112=500.000 (z max rate, mm/min)
$120=1000.000 (x accel, mm/sec^2)
$121=1000.000 (y accel, mm/sec^2)
$122=50.000 (z accel, mm/sec^2)
$130=790.000 (x max travel, mm)
$131=790.000 (y max travel, mm)
$132=100.000 (z max travel, mm)
