Carbide motion not showing jog on screen

[Abitaman (Bruce Ahlborn)]

new to the cnc world and down loaded all the software to my window 10 laptop .
plug the laptop to the xxl unit and it will not show me the arrows to move anything or any jog functions .any help will be appreciated.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

We’re you able to connect to the machine and then initialize it?

Setting Grbl Configuration in CM 517 and later

Carbide Motion 517 uses a new system for setting Travel Dimensions which is potentially confusing: [image] Pressing the Load Defaults button takes one to a window which allows one to select first machine size: [image] and then Z-axis type: [image] after which selection the Travel Dimensions for the selections made are entered into the dialog and will be preserved if one clicks “Ok” (and of course that change discarded if one selects “Cancel”). In addition there is a “Send Configuration…

[Abitaman (Bruce Ahlborn)]

yes i can connect to the unit just fine

[Gerry]

When you connect, what do you see? If you see a JOG menu item, does anything happen when you click it?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

After you connect, when you press the button to Initialize it, what happens?

Please write in to support@carbide3d.com

[Abitaman (Bruce Ahlborn)]

The unit will move back and the z will come down into it hits the table.

[Gerry]

I don’t think finding the jog controls should be your primary concern if the machine doesn’t initialise properly.

Have you brought up the settings in Carbide Motion and sent the correct configuration to your machine? It won’t work properly until you do that.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

In that case you need to configure the machine.

Please see:

Setting Grbl Configuration in CM 517 and later

Carbide Motion 517 uses a new system for setting Travel Dimensions which is potentially confusing: [image] Pressing the Load Defaults button takes one to a window which allows one to select first machine size: [image] and then Z-axis type: [image] after which selection the Travel Dimensions for the selections made are entered into the dialog and will be preserved if one clicks “Ok” (and of course that change discarded if one selects “Cancel”). In addition there is a “Send Configuration…