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GRBL CNC command sender, autoleveler and g-code editor
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.tap file not milling #547

Closed danielpcb3d closed 7 years ago

danielpcb3d commented 7 years ago

Dear all, i'm a newbie in bcnc. Some weeks ago I've started building a pcb milling maschine. I use the following components/projects:

The manual control of every axis works fine only the .tap files (eagle) didn't work. What i'm doing before starting bcnc: I load the .tap file into the workspace, press x,y,z = 0 and after that i press start, but the motors only making some strange noise but they didn't rotate.

Does someone of you had the same problem and could tell me what i've to do to solve it?

electrokean commented 7 years ago

Sounds like the motors are stalling. Try reducing your max step rate and acceleration settings.

danielpcb3d commented 7 years ago

Thanks a lot for your reply. Could you please tell me where i can reduce it?

electrokean commented 7 years ago

In your grbl configuration of the Protoneer board - see https://github.com/gnea/grbl/wiki/Grbl-v1.1-Configuration for details of the settings. You want to reduce $110,$111,$112 and $120,$121,$122 - especially the latter ones which are acceleration. Keep halving them all until the motors move, then tweak them up/down to get the best performance while avoiding stalls. From bCNC I think you can do access the grbl settings via the terminal window - I don't have a copy running here right now to check.

danielpcb3d commented 7 years ago

Thanks a lot for your help. I will test it on this weekend.

vlachoudis commented 7 years ago

I am closing the issue since it is not related with bCNC