CM Work offset?

Software Carbide Motion
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I asked this a year ago with no response.

Does CM use any work offsets? Or is it stored/calculated in software?

I was using gSender for a while to have simple macros to offset my zero for my laser. With quick actions in CM now, I could add a macro to adjust the work offset for my laser.

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CM uses G54 by default. Machine coordinate moves need a G53 (non-modal) on each line using G53.
CM doesn’t support G55-59. However, other G-Code senders do.
Not sure what would happen if you sent a program with G55-59 through CM. To circumvent CM pre-processing the command, a backslash may be needed \G55 X… Y… Z…

GRBL does support G53 - G59

Supported G-Codes in v1.1

  • G54, G55, G56, G57, G58, G59: Work Coordinate Systems
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Ooof. I might stick with gSender in that case.

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Work offsets via quick actions serve the same purpose, and make it easier to keep them by name, rather than number.

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Any time you “set zero”, you’re establishing a new work offset.
@greg5 Can you explain exactly what you’re trying to do?

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Spindle is at 0,0. Laser is at some arbitrary offset relative to that position, X-100, Y-50.

gSender setup

  • Setup workpiece origin
  • Hit macro button which will adjust by X-100Y-50, set this as new origin.
  • Toggle GRBL laser mode, run laser gcode
  • Toggle GRBL laser mode off
  • Run macro that will adjust X+100Y+50, set as new origin
  • Run gcode to cutout the piece
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G10L20X0Y0

G10L20X-150Y-50 (assuming laser is 150 left and 50 back from end mill)

Move back to X-150Y-50 (your original 0,0), and reset Work origin here
G10L20X0Y0

No need to use the other Work Coordinate Systems (G55-G59) in this case.

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Nice! So I could make these as quick actions and Carbide Motion would not touch these when running files? Or it will pickup these new homes in the GUI? (For deactivate, I can just invert your logic a bit?)

Activate laser mode

G0 X0 Y0
G10L20X-150Y-50
G0 X0 Y0

Deactivate laser mode

G0 X0 Y0
G10L20X150Y50
G0 X0 Y0
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Just gave it a shot today, I was using gSender previously. No luck with quick actions.

Here’s my "spindle to laser macro - X/Y values are measured now, above were just examples.

G0 X0 Y0 F3000
G0 X110.6 Y-23.6 F500
G54
G10 L20 X0Y0
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That’s a Motion thing. By default, the workspace is G54 which is P1.
Add a P1 after the G10L20

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Nice, that did it for the most part. Having issues with CM picking up the new values afterwards. The GUI still shows the values X110.6Y-23.6.

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You’re sending /G10L20P1X0Y0 ?

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This was via quick-actions - do I need to escape with a / or is that MDI only?

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I’d assume without, but I have no idea.

If you successfully send it to the controller and tie with offsets don’t change, my only guess would be that you’re in a different WCS for some reason.

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Maybe @robgrz can chime in.

It could be that CM detects the G0 commands, but not the G10. So the UI shows the last XY which was X110.6 Y-23.6. I’ll hop to the garage later today maybe if I use CM to jog once it’ll instantly pick up the new position.

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gSender has this “laser offset” built in as a feature.

I’m using Vcarve Pro with @wb9tpg Gary’s mod of the post processor which adds the laser offset to the gCode.

Perhaps CM could add the offset as a feature?

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Well aware of that :slight_smile: It’s great in gSender. Their tool-change is lacking, but there’s some recent work in the EDGE builds which is promising. The stability of gSender isn’t great right now.

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You don’t need multiple coordinate systems to accomplish this (ie: g54, g55, etc). You can do it all with the G92 command. Easy peasy

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I don’t think @greg5 is trying to use multiple WCSs.
Also, welcome back @wb9tpg.

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