I’m training somebody to run my machine & it would be super helpful if there were some sort of machine simulator that carbide motion could connect to so he could control a machine without any risk of damaging the actual machine. I looked and can’t find anything… does anything like this exist?
While it doesn’t connect to Carbide Motion, GrblGru is a full 3D machine simulator: https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Main_Page#3D_Machine_Simulation
You can put Grbl into check mode by sending $C, but that won’t afford any indication of movement.
They’re tough little machines, and thanks to the belt drive, pretty resistant to being damaged even by a hard crash — please just use the machine — if anything gets damaged, rest assured that we will work with you to sort things out and ensure that your machine gets back into operation.
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Get yourself an Arduino and program it with grbl. Carbide Motion will connect and run, but with nothing to actually control.
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you can also try checking your gcode with something like camotics or gwizard editor to help you visualize your programs. make a few test programs that you have a good understanding of your work piece and what you expect to happen. then check the code. see if the output matches your expectations. it’s not a bad idea to have multiple checks as part of your work flow to build confidence in your work and help as a sanity check.
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I second the Camotics suggestion…it has helped me isolate questionable GRBL movements I wasn’t expecting for my multi-tool jobs
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In my experience, this is not the case with Carbide Motion. Have you done it?
I assumed it was looking for a specific bit of info from the Mega16u2, and I never felt it worth reflashing the USB chip.
I did it with an older version of grbl and CM, have not tried it lately.
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