The fact that it came from China and only runs CNCUSB means it's probably based on a cloned Mk1 Planet-CNC controller and Planet-CNC will not support it in any way. This hobby is not just plug and play, every step takes time unless you have previous knowledge and experience. You can also search the Internet for documentation about your machine and Planet CNC and everything else you need. At least I will not have the time and the possibilities to guide you with every step you need to take.ĮBay sellers are not always helpful, but in my experience, most are doing their best to solve all the issues.
It is not going to be possible to give you full assistance and help you with every small steps unless you do some self help and read the manuals needed. Regardless of which route you go, you should read ALL the manuals you can find. That is probably the simplest way to go ahead. Guessing may not work that well.Īt this stage, if I were you, I'd contact Leadhead and would start with Planet CNC. If you want to use USB and Mach3 you can buy a UC100 from CNC Drive, plug it in and add the Mach3 plugin to the Mach3 Plugin folder and off you go.Īll this assumes that you have either knowledge to figure out the pins at the back of the controller box, or you have documentation.
Of course, it assumes that you have a PC with parallel port.
What mods may I have to do?To use Mach3, probably no mods needed because it looks like you have a parallel port type DB25 and then if you want to use Mach3 you can do that with the parallel port of you PC. The seller isnt replying to any of my messages at the mo as there was no instructions so I am in the dark
Solution to this is to explicitly define Z so that motion is defined in all coordinates and Z axis is not left floating.īasicly they are saying the g-code is bad, bit i think it still will not explain the fact that the Z-axis plunges down at unlimited speed.3.Installing a CNC control software and Drive such as the MACH 3 or EMC2 on your computer. Because g-code does not know how much Z moved during tool change procedure, it does not take this in effect and moves Z so that it stays as before tool change. G0 line above G43 does not specify Z axis motion, this means Z should not move. Many users have problem with understanding this concept, but if your PP have generated correctly everything should work OK. Using G43 H1 in your g-code also does not make any sense since your loaded tool is T5. Z is allowed only to increase compatibility with certain postprocessors but it is ignored) (in this case Z word is ignored and machine does not go to Z55.
G43 Z55 H1 makes no sense, if you look to specification of (RS274NGC) G43 only uses H word. You can use one or another but it does not make sense to use both at same time. Tool offset that you set in tool change procedure(in settings) is different that tool offset set with G43 g-code. UseRadius: true, // specifies that arcs should be output using the radius (R word) instead of the I, J, and K words.ĭwellInSeconds: true // specifies the unit for dwelling: true:seconds and false:milliseconds.Īlso this is the reply i got from planet-cnc about the issue. SeparateWordsWithSpace: true, // specifies that the words should be separated with a white space SequenceNumberIncrement: 5, // increment for sequence numbers SequenceNumberStart: 10, // first sequence number ShowSequenceNumbers: false, // show sequence numbers PreloadTool: false, // preloads next tool on tool change if any UseM6: true, // disable to avoid M6 output - preload is also disabled when M6 is disabled UseG28: false, // disable to avoid G28 output for safe machine retracts - when disabled you must manually ensure safe retracts So, i am at this point, screwed.Īt the selected line (19) it will just crash to Z0, where in this case is the bottom of my part.Īlso here is my Mach3 config that seems to work.Īll i did now, is disable the M6 tool change, just so it wont crash my freaking expensive tools again. I have also made a post there, but they are very very very slow in updating anything. I think this is more a PlanetCNC issue and not a Fusion360 Compile problem. When i enable M6 in the compiler for my tool changer, it messes it up.įor some reason the stupid software of PlanetCNC will now read the first position line after the tool change, Since Fusion is not putting a Z Value there but only X and Y, The software will just default and crash to Z0, at full speed. I have bin working on everything a bit, and it looks like i am fairly able to use the Mach3 compiler.