No. You can send GRBL settings with basically every version of Carbide Motion since the beginning of time. If you send “$$” to print the settings in the log and you don’t see the changes, then something is wrong.
You won’t see much difference when you jog. Jogging speeds seem to cap out at 6000 mm/min currently when commanded through the CM UI. You’ll notice it in movements commanded via gcode instructions, ex. “G0 X0 Y0”.
Ok, some testing. It looks like in Julien’s vid, he’s jogging? I just tried mine and it is faster when you have it set to cut. So why his faster in jog mode?
Interesting discussion, I never wondered earlier about CM built-in jog speed limits, and I don’t use CM much these days. The video shows jogging 100mm steps in CNCjs a few times, then homing.
If I get a chance I’ll retry with CM. Jogging is one thing, but I’m surprised that CM would not honor the homing seek speed? 1700mm/min from the initial 1000 should be noticeable.
Just updated the XXL accordingly.
It has more pep now which is awesome. Appresh the info and breakdown @wmoy.
I think it would be slick to offer a conservative(beginner) and an aggressive (advanced) package.
I can understand the need for a modest setting, but it’s nice opening up the throttle on this machine once you’re comfy with it.
@Uriah
I like how you casually demo your custom touchscreen interface in a thread about boring settings. Is that your own UI?
If you’re up for it, please start a thread and explain what you did there.
Yes. It’s a project I’m working on to create an industrial-style touchscreen control panel for Grbl. I’ll create a proper post for it tomorrow. Sorry about that.
I am very happy with these new settings. I tried a simple V carve and programmed it to 150IPM then cranked the rate at 200% once in motion…
Granted the cut was not very good… but i am thrilled with how much quicker tool changes, initialization and rapid moves went. Not sure how I can share the video here… but this thing was flying!
These settings are seriously amazing, especially for an XXL. What used to feel like a tedious process of changing tools, going from one job to the next, and waiting for the gantry to move around the table, now goes by so quickly. It’s kinda amazing how something simple like this can actually lower my overall psychological resistance to more complex jobs, since the whole process feels so much more streamlined and responsive now.
Yes, you can just go in the Settings menu in CM, select your shapeoko model and options, and click “Send Config Data”. This should be called “Send Default/Factory Settings”, actually.
Winston, that’s so much for these settings. I tried them out for the first time today and my Vcarve job that used to take 30 to 35 minutes finished in 18 minutes. Quality remained the same at the faster speeds