⟐ Answer accepted January 15, 2021, 13:20 MST

I would like to install a manual Pause/Play button on my workbee V2.2. I can only find this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBFOP1S... and as far as I can understand this chart does not fit my model. And the link described does not point me to one.

Can you help me with a description of this?

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Anker

⟐ Answered January 14, 2021, 4:18 MST

⟐ Commented January 14, 2021, 0:52 MST

Thanks

Tom

⟐ Commented January 11, 2021, 1:26 MST

⟐ Answered January 05, 2021, 0:56 MST

⟐ Commented January 04, 2021, 4:13 MST

I’ve had my workbee duet for several months now and have started to understand the core concepts surrounding CNC control and its GCode. I’ve come across many different GCode related issues while using a smattering of CAM software. The main issues being the lack of G94 support (Okay not a huge deal to go in and change, but its annoying that something so core to CNC specific GCode is not supported), Canned cycle drilling understandably isnt supported in non-professional GRBL machines either but does make post processing of GCode a massive pain it aught not to be.

I might be way off the mark with my observations (I'm lightyears away from even considering myself any good at using my workbee, Heck it took me years and 3 custom 3D printer builds to fully understand its concepts) but I suppose my question is ; Why choose a firmware and controller not optimised to support the majority of GCode being output from CAM packages? and would a GRBL controller be a more "hassle free" experience.

Thanks in advance for any insight into this

Cian

⟐ Answered January 04, 2021, 2:39 MST

Can’t find anything in the install guides or the WorkBee console that says how to set the dimensions of the machine.

FWIW - I can see the Y size in homey.g and several other files … but I’d expect something this common to be more accessible / documented / in one place .. and it would be useful to know the actual value to use instead of ‘520’ .. I’m guessing it’s 770 based on dimensions

⟐ Answered January 04, 2021, 2:24 MST

Can you please assist with following connection problem:

Connecting to DUET via Ethernet.

Laptop has both Wireless / Ethernet connections.

Wireless IP Address: 192.168.0.14 / 255.255.255.0

Ethernet IP Address: 192.168.2.10 / 255.255.255.0

In YAT I enter M552 then send, DUET doesn't return anything

Tried M552 S0 - nothing returned by DUET

Tried sending M552 S1 P192.168.2.12 - Nothing from DUET

Tried browser: 192.168.2.12 - Timed out for taking too long to respond (Didn't respond)

I've tried 2 x browsers, disabled Windows Firewall.

What is there left to do?

Thanks

Regards Rob

⟐ Commented December 31, 2020, 10:08 MST

I am very new to CNC and to Workbee in particular. I have just noticed a weird issue. (maybe not so weird, you tell me).

I have run a job, which consists of two elliptical pockets going the whole depth of the material (20mm). The depth is cut in multiple passes, 2mm at a time. The cutting bit is 1/4’’ upcut flat, two flute one. The material is soft-ish wood (pine I think).

The first time the job ran, everything was fine, pockets were cut just right and the spoilboard was untouched - precisely as designed. Then I repeated the job on another piece of material - without modifying the work zero position in any way. This time around, the first pocket of the two was correct, but on another one, the bit cut more than 0.5mm into the spoilboard. At the end, the job finished ok (after all, the spoilboard is there to be spoiled), but this has me wondering about the precision of the z-axis. I believe I might have heared a weird noise during the last pass, as if the bit hit something, or something skipped in the works of the machine. But I am not sure, perhaps I am imagining things. I don’t think the spoilboard deflected or moved upwards during the cut, so I have non idea what could be wrong.

Perhaps anybody has some idea what could be happening?

⟐ Answered December 28, 2020, 16:49 MST

In addition, are both guide bearings installed from the outside of the plates?

⟐ Answer accepted December 22, 2020, 13:08 MST

I am quite new with CNCs. I have had my workbee connected. I was trying to do the XYZ probing test on Saturday it is when the Duet stopped responding, web interface kept reconnecting.

On Sunday, Duet totally stopped responding, neither to ethernet nor YAT.

Today, it didn’t connect in the first attempt, reestablished connection after about 5 minutes. It has disconnected and reconnected three times while I was typing this message.

It lost connection again and attempting to connect again but to no avail.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Irfan

⟐ Answered December 14, 2020, 1:45 MST

thanks

zac

⟐ Answered December 14, 2020, 1:44 MST

⟐ Commented December 10, 2020, 11:43 MST

My name is Pim, I’am a CNC newby. Hope you can help me with the following. I like to change the boundaries of my X-axis (Workbee 1000x1500) from 800 to 780 mm because of jamming with my dust extraction. I found a file in SYSTEM for homing. There I can change the dimensions of the machine. But I’am not sure if this is the right/only place where I have toe change things. Anyone a good advise?

Kind regards,

Pim

⟐ Commented December 01, 2020, 19:36 MST

I purchased the Workbee 1010 screw driven from openbuilds, but am using the duet to control it as I like it more. the problem i am running into is with the XYZ probe they sell and the programming. I’ve had to write some Macros for the probing as it seems when you press the ones on the machine control page they rewrite the macro in the system file.

My custom macro for the Z probe is

; This Macro will find the z offset to the workpiece

M400

G91

M563 P999 S"XYZ-Probe"

T999

G1 Z5 f500

G1 X17 Y17 f500

M585 Z15 E4 L1 F500 S1

T-1

G10 L20 Z9

G1 Z5 F500

M500

G90

M563 P999 D-1 H-1

M291 P"Probe complete. Please remove probe." R"Success" S1

The problem is that no matter what I set M563 Lnnn to it never changes. I have changed the probe sensor to E4 correctly and tested it by holding it to the bit during the move and it when i remove it during the probing stages it works correctly, and I’ve also tried adding the line

M574 E4 S1 ; Set active high endstop

to make sure the E4 was defined, which I know is probably overkill. Do you have any suggestions?

One more thing I discovered, when you go into the machine setting for the probe to set the custom size and offset of the probe, along with if it is triggered when High or Low. This setting doesn’t work either it seems, the probe.g file does change the Lnnn for the M585 command but doesn’t change how it operates.

⟐ Answer accepted November 26, 2020, 8:49 MST

Should I be able to rotate the Y Axis screw using the flexible couplers by hand?

Currently I am able to quite easily do this on the Left side but not so much the right.

Note: I am still at the mechanical build stage 5 step 4.

Cheers

⟐ Commented November 24, 2020, 2:10 MST

I’ve never really managed to get my old Ox running as it should. Never became friends with the Universal g-code controller software either. I would like to upgrade / update it with limit switches. Should I at the same time upgrade to the Duet controller? Can I keep the xPro and add switches, and will it be possible to begin using the new OpenBuilds contoller software? What is the best way to proceed and get a better workflow with my Ox?

⟐ Answered November 23, 2020, 2:43 MST

In the above guide, how do you go from step 3 to 4?

Where does that terminal window come from?

[Step 3 Configure Ethernet Port Part 2]

[Step 4 Enable Network Module]

⟐ Answer accepted November 13, 2020, 23:18 MST

Is it absolutely necessary to replace the Z limit switch during the Duet upgrade…

Worse possible area to try and get too?

⟐ Answer accepted November 12, 2020, 13:45 MST