New to Chillipper and am having an issue. I am loading a test.gcode file that I received with my CNC machine. Its just some Chinese text that gets cut out.
After I get everthing lined and home on the material and hit the play button to run the gcode the spindle moves about 5mm from its top most position and starts cutting in the air. What am I doing wrong? This same file cuts fine from GrblContrl or Gcode sender. Everything is is MM and I have it set to MM in CP.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Sounds like you have not calibrated the machine’s steps per mm for each axis.
Although if you are saying that the same machine and same controller cuts the same file ok with the same config using other gcode senders then something else is awry.
You don’t say what controller you are using. Grbl controllers save the config in eeprom. I think with tinyg the config is sent by software each time. But I could be wrong on that.
@Justin_Adie using Grbl 0.9j. After I did a hard rest on the machine it then started cutting in the correct location. Must have been some wired values in the Grbl values. Thanks for the reply.
yup - grbl stores values in EEPROM. so if you have odd stuff in there then all sorts of things can happen. you can edit the settings from within the grbl workspace though.