You made an educated guess. (Wisdom + favorable conditions = luck)
You had extra info from picsend (line count) not available to easel users.
You did not do a homing cycle after a machine failure.
I would rather re-establish those favorable conditions for the user, every time. Part of that assumes I can re-establish the same WCS as the original cycle (easel can, so I should be able to also)
Youād have to either give it an X/Y/Z location where it stopped or youād give it a percentage and itād gather the total lines of code, do some math, then backtrack and find the last applicable Z command and then would have to do the X/Y move first, then the Z then resume the program.
I made the mistake of installing Python 3.6.2. Uninstalled and installed Phyton 2.7.13 and Iām running bCNC now
@EliasPolitis Thank you for the pointers.
@RobertCanning You may have gotten lucky, I was unlucky when I notebooked the file. rotor went directions that were not in the toolpath for me. Perhaps I need more testing and good luck.
If I put bCNC on my CNC PC Iād need to connect. Where do I put pyserial for Python to recognize it?
@EliasPolitis Perhaps Iām missing something is there a āgotoā line? For some reason bCNC isnāt showing my full file in the visualizer, I only get a block of the cut, small one at that. I can select blocks - however Iām not seeing the cut pattern in the visualizer. That would be helpful.
I loaded a rough cut file and the visualizer shows the toolpath and blocks are highlighted. When I load the finish gcode on one file it shows half the display in visualizer and doesnāt highlight the blocks. When I load the actual finish gcode file Iām working with it shows perhaps a 1/8 in the visualizer. Hmm this isnāt working out for me. Guess Iāll see if I can lucky like @RobertCanning and try my hand at Notepad again.
On the upper right corner of the viewer there is a small dropdown menu. This is a draw timeout in seconds. Its purpose is not to slow you down in case you donāt want to wait for the complete toolpaths to display or run the application on an old computer. Try increasing that.
Iāve seen what you describe on my RPI, so I leave the draw timeout higher. On my office workstation it draws a lot faster.
If this does not solve it for you, look here to see if it has been mentioned and, if not, open an issue.
@EliasPolitis That did the trick, thank you for pointing out the timeout setting. Now I wish I bought my MS Surface with more memoryā¦ These files are slowing my surface down.
bCNC is helping a ton during my times when I need to restart at points of a project. Moving blocks and cutting block really has been a huge help.
Lately Iāve needed to reduce some of the blocks of gcode. However when I edit a number of the gcode lines out of the block and start the project my CNC is moving really really slow. Iām assuming Iāve deleted some gcode lines that I should not have deleted regarding speed. However I have no real idea whatās what in gcode.
Can anyone shed some light on what not to take out of a gcode block?
Got it - that helped me figure out the gcode. For some reason I didnāt think to jog the spindle, Iāll have to open my mind to more than one way. Though I wanted to figure out this gcode. So - One can do the same in the gcode. This is what I was missing - needed to make sure I had a G0x & Y when I cut out lines in a block. One that is similar to start x/y in cut lines.
[Go where you want to start]
G0X#####Y####
[lift Z to safe height and set speed]
G1Z0.1900F30.0
[Start cutting with speed]
G1X7.5138Y13.0391F150.0
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