Where do I change settings in Easel?

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I need to change my settings to lock my motors, but can’t seem to find where to do it in Easel. I went to advanced settings and machine inspector but can’t edit. Can’t find anywhere else to possibly do it…

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Locking motors is located in the Carve section.

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There is a “console” line in machine inspector, you don’t edit the big window with all the settings directly. To change a setting, say, $100, you would type $100=XXXX , hit enter in the console window. If you then hit the refresh button just above the window to display the settings, you should see the new value.

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To keep the motors powered to “lock” the motors the setting is:

$1=255

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Thanks Gentlemen! I did do the console thing, but didn’t refresh I guess… so I never saw anything change. And Rusty, the lock and unlock motor buttons in the Carve section aren’t working for me right now. Hoping that the $1=255 change in my settings will change that.

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Now that you mention that, it does seem like the lock button isn’t working for me either. Maybe @JeffTalbot could speak to this?

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Okay… so I went back into machine inspector and did the change as per Andy’s instructions. Went back into set-up your machine to test all functions now the system won’t home. when I enable homing the spindle moves down instead of up. when I follow the prompts to test, the spindle moves down again and then Easel tells me there is an obstruction, which there is not. set $1 back to zero, same thing is happening. Anybody know whats up???

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This is the complete set of values and what they mean. Configuring Grbl v0.9 · grbl/grbl Wiki · GitHub

I’m guessing you set something without realising it. It would help to post your existing settings. If you have an Inventables Gshield, you should also me able to do a “$RST=$” in the command window ( minus the “” ). This should reset you gshield back to it’s defaults from Inventables. What that command does is towards the end of the wiki page I posted above.

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sorry I never got back… I wound up doing what every good East Indian call center will tell you to do and turned the unit off, then back on. Go figger, everything reset! Keddy