I’ve had my Shapoko 3 XXL with Z -Plus for about 3 years now and I’ve built a ton of things with it. I got a new PC (Win 11) recently to use for the cnc. Ever since then the machine won’t initialize and running the new machine wizard it just hangs on the “download settings” page or if I skip that it fails to initialize. The machine connects, but it wont initialize CM V618. I get “Cutter stopped responding”.
Windows and all drivers are up to date, the main board was replaced about a year ago, so I don’t think the Shapoko motherboard is bad.
Now if I run Lightburn I can get the machine to home, but won’t respond after that. Machine won’t jog or respond to goto commands (in LB). I get similar behavior in LaserGRBL, but there it at least homes then jogs for me. So I think it may be something to do with the GRBL config or firmware. Lightburn has these macros “Run CNC” and “Run Laser” which you’re supposed to run prior to using it for that function. Maybe I messed that up somehow, ran the wrong macro or something?
Thinking it was a windows 11 issue, I formatted a spare hard drive, installed windows 10 on it and I have the same exact problem.
Macro for Run CNC is
$10=0
$32=0
G10 L2 P1 X0 Y0
Macro for run laser is
$10=0
$32=1
G10 L2 P1 X-845 Y-850
Machine is dead in the water and I have a really cool guitar to finish. (baritone thinline telecaster, compound radius fretboard… about a dozen machining operations)
Should I re-flash the firmware?
If so, a how-to guide would be helpful.
Other troubleshooting ideas or resources would be helpful as well.
Thanks in advance.
-JP