I don’t ordinarily use CM to run my SO3, I’ve been using GRBL-Panel for years cause I like its interface much better. I’m trying to bring my machine and workflow back to stock to see what the out of the box experience is like. The first problem I’ve run into is with jogging. Please see the video here, https://photos.app.goo.gl/gWtfERKVGNK4gcij7. As you can see, the majority of the time I’m only clicking the x- button on the screen but the machine will move a little in the minus direction for one click and in the plus direction for the next click or not move at all. When I try clicking the y- or y+ buttons, the machine will move in both x and y simultaneously. The machine does not behave like this in GRBL-Panel. it works exactly as expected. Does anyone have any ideas? Please advice.
Thanks Will,
I’m using CM 513 and my GRBL version is 1.1f.
I hadn’t re-sent the configuration to the machine but I have now and that seems to have helped the situation. There’s just a couple problems. You can see in the video that my Z xis is the “SHAPEOKO 3 Slider” from cnc4newbie.com. The closest setting that matches for the Z-Axis Type field in the CM Settings window is Z-Plus. Once I send those settings, the jogging in any direction works but it’s not reliable. Most the time a single click of a jog button will move the machine by one increment. Many times a single click will result in movement of two increments. And a few times a single click will result in what appears to be a half increment or a stutter increment. It doesn’t seem to make a difference whether I use the onscreen buttons or the keyboard shortcuts. Also, another annoying behavior is, going from CM to GRBL-Panel doesn’t require re-sending the configuration to the machine, but just the mere fact of connecting to the machine with GRBL-Panel and not doing anything, only establishing a connection, requires CM to need to resend the configuration before it’ll work correctly. Very odd.
I still wanna continue down this path to see if I can use CM on a regular basis but at this moment I don’t know. GRBL-Panel just seems so much more intuitive and feature rich to me. I’m planning to get the bit-setter accessory soon and I’m not sure how to make it work in GRBL-Panel. I’m afraid any multi-tool job will force me to use CM to take advantage of the new accessory, so I need to re-train myself.
By “doesn’t work” I mean it operates like it does in the video, i.e., moving back and forth, moving in two directions simultaneously, etc. The GRBL settings are exactly the same from both programs. GRBL-Panel doesn’t have a way to capture them as text so I had to transcribe them into this table below.
Setting
From GRBL-Panel before connecting Motion
From Carbide Motion after connecting from GRBL-Panel
I was reading some other posts and found an unrelated post where the user describes odd multi-axis movements when jogging in Motion but not in other senders.