Once I'm in Workbee control and I've imported the g-code do I need to specify in the touch probe control section the endmill diameter and if so am I putting the width of the shank, 6.35mm in this case or the width of the cut diameter? Or is this all handled by the Carveco software?

Green arrow from Ooznest website

⟐ Answered March 04, 2024, 2:27 MST

my use time with the workbee is increasing steadily, I have a quick question, when using the touch probe does it only set the work zeros or will it also adjust the x and y directions if the workpiece is slightly skewed on the machine.?

For the work i have done to date this hasn't been an issue as its mostly been profiles with enough waste around the profile. i am gaining confidence with the machine and now progressing to cutting profiles, doing some laminations off the machine, and then i would like to re introduce the job back on the machine to put a drilling pattern onto it. The plan is to leave a reference corner on the profile which i can then use with the touch probe to set a work zero. If it then can align work x and y axes to the touch probe that makes everything simple, if not i have to find a way :)..

⟐ Answered February 19, 2024, 3:24 MST

I wish to surface a spoilboard and have generated G-code with travel lines based on the machine limits - assuming that the cutter would travel on those limits ok, but cut the tool's radius beyond those limits - so the surfacing would go a little beyond the limits. I am getting the "out of machine limits" error. Do I need to reduce my pocket size to subtract the tool dimension so it only cuts to the limit lines?

⟐ Answered February 07, 2024, 4:30 MST

Markus

⟐ Answered January 31, 2024, 3:19 MST

he's got no idea ether so its just me trying and getting no where

⟐ Answered January 30, 2024, 2:56 MST

I've just connected my touch probe into the touch probe mount connector as shown in the manual/photos, I've followed the guide up to step 6, but step 7 set work zero -touch probe - part 2 the 'Touch Probe Panel isn't showing up.

Screenshot of workbee/local webpage for clarity

Thanks for any help provided.

⟐ Answer accepted January 29, 2024, 10:06 MST

Its got ethernet, the link light comes up but I cannot ping it

I have checked with a USB cable and M552 shows the the expected IP address, I can see the firmware booting logs including the message saying the HTTP server is active.

Checked with wireshark and not traffic seen from the network event with a direct cable.

Set a new IP address and all that seems to work as expected but still not connection to the IP address.

Any ideas?

david

⟐ Answered January 29, 2024, 2:14 MST

Something has changed in fusion. 360 is now not allowing me to send files. I have tried the update as per your instructions but I'm getting an error message error M977 firmware/duet2_SDiap 32_Wi-Fith.bin not found.

any advice please

⟐ Answered January 24, 2024, 8:57 MST

I have a friend who 's been looking around at Laser Engraving units.

Cut a long story short, he's had a bit of a bad experience with trying to purchase an item from America.

Can the Workbee be used as a laser engraver?

Is there a dedicated Workbee forum?

Dizzwold.

⟐ Answered January 15, 2024, 2:49 MST

⟐ Answered January 08, 2024, 3:13 MST

I wanted to get an idea of how high the spindle travelled the z axis from the spoil board when it is raised.

I presume its meant that about 44mm +1/2mm of exposed end mill would be the limit of exposed end mill and material thickness combo?

With different length end mills, it would be good to know what kind of clearance you would get from using an end mill exposed at 20/30/40/50mm.

If I use a longer endmill, can I cut thicker material.all the way through, will the spindle raise high enough to clear the work?

If the Z axis were taller, I could get a cutting depth of the longest 1/4" end mills I can find, but raising the spindle high enough to clear the work is a bit unclear.

Hope I'm not being obtuse.

Thankyou :)

⟐ Answered January 02, 2024, 6:01 MST

Also again randomly - example when engrqaving text the text is cut in a totally different position form the screen display.

Thoughts? kind regards jjb

⟐ Answered January 02, 2024, 5:57 MST

⟐ Commented December 19, 2023, 2:36 MST

In the Workbee Control Software, "Jobs" screen layout, is there anyway to modify the display.

The reason I ask is that when I want to select a job from the list all those I have created, I have to scroll down and down through a narrow column list of word-wrapped names. However, there are 6 columns to the right (to do with 3D printing I think), which are of no use to me. If I could remove/hide the unwanted columns, I could then have the job filename's column much wider and display a lot more files per screen, by turning word-wrap off!

I know this is not a major thing, but I think it would be helpful to all those of us who don't use/want 3D printer files info cluttering up their screen unnecessarily.

PS: I've had a look around at all the multitude of settings, but couldn't see anything related to display settings.

Living in hope for a solution!

Rod

⟐ Commented December 18, 2023, 9:03 MST

⟐ Answer accepted November 27, 2023, 4:56 MST

I have upgraded firmware to version 3.3.0 - 1.2

When homing i get

G28 error failed to activate endstops.

The config-axes-endstop.g file reads

; Endstop configuration executed by config.g

M574 X2 P"xstop" S1 ; Set active low X endstop

M574 Y2 P"ystop" S1 ; Set active low Y endstop

M574 Z2 P"zstop" S1 ; Set active low Z endstop

on the software endstops do not show a status

If i trigger the end stops the board will correctly show a red light but no status show on software.

If I change config to

M574 X2 P"xstop" S0 ; Set active low X endstop

M574 Y2 P"ystop" S0; Set active low Y endstop

M574 Z2 P"zstop" S0 ; Set active low Z endstop

(The above is the code used before update)

The software will show an incorrect status of triggered

If I manually trigger an end stop it will correctly show a red light on the board and change status to not triggered.

if I add an invert code either M574 X2 P"ixstop" S0 or M574 X2 P"ixstop" S1

I get the original error of G28 error failed to activate endstops.

In all cases the endstops correctly trigger a red light on the board when manually activated.

I did complete step 11 in the firmware update.

My board is a duet 2 ethernet

⟐ Answer accepted November 27, 2023, 4:56 MST

Thanks David

⟐ Commented November 21, 2023, 5:55 MST

⟐ Commented November 20, 2023, 2:26 MST

M32 "0:/gcodes/cab.tap"
File 0:/gcodes/cab.tap selected for printing Warning: M6: Command is not supported Warning: Obsolete use of S parameter on G1 command. Use H parameter instead.

⟐ Answered November 13, 2023, 2:33 MST

⟐ Answered November 10, 2023, 2:17 MST