Updating Nomad from Grbl .9

[Qwaid (Russ Jenkins)]

I have a Nomad Pro from 2015, 400 SN series. It has .9 GRBL and is running on a 12+ year old Win 10 laptop.
Motion is Build 364
Create is Build 431
I have Create and G-code files I would like to keep and update moving to a newer machine.

I have tried moving the program over to a 5 YO LT running Win 10 but the Motion hangs up when trying to run the old G-Code files.

What’s my steps to get up to date without losing integrity of my create files I can get G-code from?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Ideally you would update Carbide Create from v4 to a version which will open said files and re-save them so that they can be opened in v7 and re-saved so that a current version will open them — we have v7 at:

https://carbide3d.com/downloads

If you need some intermediate version, let us know at support and we’ll try to dig it out.

You’ll need to update to Grbl 1.1 so as to be able to run a current version of Carbide Motion, but the updater hasn’t been available for a while — some folks have managed to compile Grbl w/ the Carbide 3D defaults as described in the header files and re-flash thus on a Shapeoko — there are some specific values for a Nomad, so that may be a bit more complex — please check in w/ the folks at support before trying that route.

Shapeoko 3 0.9 to 1.1f

This should be the correct GRBL build: https://carbide3d.com/files/grbl11/grbl11e20161219.hex For what it’s worth, we haven’t shipped a machine with GRBL 0.9 since around 2016. It’s pretty rare for us to upgrade machines that old these days, and honestly, our team doesn’t have much experience with the process anymore. Because of that, we’ve had to stop providing support for it.

GRBL Upgrade via avrdude

Hi Folks, For those interested, this is how I upgraded from GRBL version 1.1f to 1.1h. I am not sure there is any real need to do this, but the machine can always be flashed back to normal with the Carbide software or with the process I used. You could use this process to add your own functionality to GRBL if you wish, but that’s another thing entirely. I was able to backup my existing GRBL 1.1f firmware and then flash GRBL 1.1h on my Shapeoko 4. This guy did it for his 3018 Pro CNC but the…

The official recommendation for Shapekos is to buy a new controller — not sure if that’s the case for a Nomad (the controller isn’t as easy to get to).

[Randy (Randy Gordon-Gilmore)]

@Qwaid, here’s my original posting of updating to grbl 1.1h on my Nomad 883.2 and the followup posting. It was ultimately successful as you can read. I sold the “Classic+” locally a few weeks ago but the firmware upgrade was definitely worth it.