This is a new build. I use a HP with win 10, or surface pro win10. I have not purchased Lightburn yet but would like to..Machine is a 4ft x4ft bed with a Rattmmotor 4 axis control breakout board (i use only 3 ). Lightburn trial will not let me connect USB. I have manually selected GRBL but no connect. I may need to buy a different breakout board. Any insight would be appreciated. I also installed serial USB driver software.
If it’s that board, then:
The standout feature of the RATTMMOTOR 4 Axis CNC USB Mach3 Controller Breakout Board is its compatibility with Mach3 software
Which means LightBurn can generate G-Code that Mach3 can feed to the controller, but LightBurn cannot directly interact with the machine.
That is a Mach3 board - Mach3 does the motion planning on the Windows PC instead of the controller itself.
LightBurn does not do motion planning - so you’ll need to use Mach with this board, and you can send it gcode that LightBurn produces - but LightBurn will not directly control it.
If you want to do machining operations with your new machine, take a look at www.millmagesoftware.com - or docs.millmagesoftware.com for the download to our Release Candidate for our next piece of software.
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Thanks guys I purchased another board but it too does not connect, It said GRBL so what do I not understand? I started building CNC years ago with LPT. seemed simple. I made the breakout board myself. I did purchase Mach1 back then, and do still have it but not sure if that supports USB. now the machine is built but no control. I need a 24 volt i/o sys. motors are 3 amp 24vdc (have drives) and 12 volt laser with PWM. What should I buy? ESP32? I need terminals not pin connectors. I would love to share my builds.