WorkBee Control Overview

The Name of the machine.

Send Manual G-Code commands.

To upload and start a job.

Triggers a software emergency stop.

Current position in Work Coordinates.

The Work Coordinates displayed are determined by the Work Coordinate Selection dropdown.

Current position in Machine Coordinates

Used to home the machine. You need to home the machine when it is turned on.

Used to jog the machine around the work area. Right-click to modify distance.

Used to set the Work Zero position for the selected Work Coordinate System.

Move the machine to the Work Zero position of the currently selected Work Coordinate System.

The Compensation and Calibration buttons allows a probe to measure the overall work area flatness. Height maps are useful for milling PCB's. More information on using these buttons can be found here: https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Using_mes...

When running a job, the progress of the job will be displayed here along with the percentage complete and estimated time remaining.

When running a job, pause, resume, & cancel buttons will show here. When pausing a job it will save the current position and home the machine.

A controlled power off can also be performed in the middle of a job. This will pause, home and save the current job position, allowing it to be continued at a later time.

Use this button to resume a job after a controlled power off.

When running a job these buttons allow micro-adjustment of the Z-Axis

For example if the job is not cutting deep enough, these buttons can be used to shift the job downwards.

A slider to speed up or slow down the job. The speed is represented by a percentage, with 100% being the normal speed.

Send Manual G-Code commands.

Important information outputted from the WorkBee will be displayed here.

Makes the G-Code Viewer Fullscreen.

The grid shows the machines working area.

The X, Y, and Z-Axis markers show where the selected Work Zero is located in the machines working area.

Current position in Work Coordinates.

Software emergency stop.

Loads the current Job.

Loads a local file from your computer.

If a job is running, you can load it locally by right clicking the file under File Management > Jobs and press 'plugins.CNCgcodeViewer.view3D'

This will elongate the spaces between passes. It can make files much easier to view.

Clicking on a Job will run the Job.

Create a sub-folder

Upload a job to the current folder

The Macros page is similar the Jobs page.

This contains all the System files.

Anything with 'config' in the name is run at startup.

We advise putting any custom settings in 'config-user-settings.g'

Change Theme Colour

Autoclose Notifications

Manage plugins packaged within WorkBee Control.

Congifure Webcam. See Duet's Dozuki.

Change machine working area (No restart required)

Change machine Steps/mm (No restart required)

Sensor statuses

Touch probe settings. See Assembling Your Original WorkBee XYZ Touch Probe