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I’m new to Easel. I have Easel Pro Annual subscription and using with a GRBL controller. I have limit switches and all axis of my machine homes properly using $H command. While setting up my machine in Easel when asked, I select yes enable homing. Easel then successfully homes my machine and moves on to the touch probe stuff which I do not have so I just bypass that. Easel informs me I have successfully setup my machine.
However, when I’m ready to carve, Easel says I do not have homing enabled. Based on another thread in this forum I brought up the Machine Inspector Page and scrolled down to the grbl settings but do not see $22. So I tried to send $22=1 in the console but I get error 3. FYI: When I send $H in the Easel console the machine does home properly and the 3 green status lights in the console light up green.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!
Hmmm…Easel does everything else perfectly. It jogs the machine properly, it homes it when I send it a homing command in the Machine inspector Console and it carves properly as long as I manually jog it over to position 0,0.
FluidNC handles 100% of all of the standard grbl commands. Why do you say it won’t work?
So I don’t know for sure as I haven’t used Easel since the early days. Easel is clearly looking for Grbl settings and not seeing them.
I’d use a different sender. Or even the webUI
Yes, I think you are right. And probably that $22=1 code which I just read that FluidNC does not use. I am using the WebUI of Easel, but it requires connecting to the machine via a usb cable and uses a com port through that.
I really wanted to use Easel because it has design and sender all in one, plus I already paid for a year subscription of it. Sigh! Oh well, I’ll keep looking or may just have to cut my loses and do something different.
You can design and generate gcode in Easel. Just export to an appropriate sender.
This is the typical workflow. I prefer my CAD/CAM program to be really good at what it does rather than a do it all program.