I have a K40 with C3D board running Smoothieware. I tried to create a console macro to briefly pulse the laser, but two aspects didn’t work as expected.
My macro is simply:
M3 S100
G4 P100
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The first problem was the delay seemed like the P parameter was seconds instead of Milliseconds. If so, how do I change this?
The second problem was that the laser didn’t fire (which turned out fortunate with the very long delay, although I had my hand on the beam cutoff switch
I modified the macro to do an incremental short G1 and this fired, but I’d rather not move the laser head.
Thanks, Bernd!
That makes perfect sense. I’m still not sure about the delay period, but I try this macro and see if it works according to the description.
Not good. My system doesn’t like $32=0, returning error:Invalid statement
It also does not respond to $$, returning the same message.
I checked the config.txt file and grbl_mode true was missing, so I added it, but got the same result.
Something amiss here…
My Device is set to Smoothieware and is otherwise working fine.
Is it dependent on gerbil? unfortunately I do not know anything about Smoothieware, sorry.
There is probably a skilled user here in the forum who can come up with a solution proposal for you.
