Software Issues / Cant Carve

[villagewoodcraft]

Hello. 


I am having issues with getting my machine to carve anything. I have the trial for vcarve and the gcode sender. I am using a trial file as well.


I can home my machine and set the soft limits. Then when i go to actually send the Gcode file to the CNC i get error messages. It will say "soft limit alarm" first then it will say "streaming has been paused. error while starting file stream" 


Gcode will also randomly stop communicating with the machine computer too. And i have to turn off and reset everything to get it to even jog again

[kevin]

You may want to give it a try with soft limits disabled. $20=0 will disable soft limits. If that doesn't work you can re-enable soft limits with $20=1.

[Bruce]

NOTE: Soft limits requires homing to be enabled and accurate axis maximum travel settings, because Grbl needs to know where it is. ($130-$132)

[shrug]

Have you set your zero for the work piece gcode? I just had the same issue and realized I hadn't set my xyz zero position for the work piece, so the test code sent my z ramming into it's upper limit.

[villagewoodcraft]

I did set soft limits in machine setup wizard. I will try the couple steps mentioned above. Should i post my settings here?

[Bruce]

Sure, we can take a look at them.

[kc]

You cannot run any tool paths with the trial version of Vectric Vcarve. You need to purchase a license to carve anything.