X and Y axis have stopped moving

LightBurn Software Questions
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Hello,
Running a JTech laser on a X-Carve.

Today, I went to engrave a tile but noticed there was an upgrade. I did the upgrade and went to engrave the tile. My X an Y axis won’t move. The Z axis works. Not saying it was the upgrade but it was working last week until today.

I can exit Lightburn and jog the machine around just fine with Picsender.

I’m stumped.

TIA

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Do you get any output in the console window? Click ‘Show all’ and you should see the gcode being sent to the laser.

It’s also possible that you haven’t run the macro to set the machine origin properly, and if you have continuous or $J jogging enabled, it would just ignore you if it thought the machine was out of bounds.

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Thanks,

I’m not seeing any output in the console window after I tell it to move the x or y axis. Homing works.

What is the macro to set the machine coordinates?

Thanks!!

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Also $J Jogging is disabled

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Even with the ‘Show All’ button enabled?

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It’s the G10 L2 P1 Xxxx Yyyy macro discussed here:

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Right. Nothing after Lightburn connects to the controller.

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I use 3 macros.

Use Laser:
$10=0
$13=0
$30 = 255
$31 = 0
$32 = 1
$101=26.637

Use CNC:
$10=2
$30=1
$31=0
$32=0
$101=26.637

Use Rotary:
$10=0
$30 = 255
$31 = 0
$32 = 1
$101=4.603

When I run the macros, I see output in the window.

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Type ? in the console and press enter. Do you see anything?

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$

$$ (view Grbl settings)

$# (view # parameters)

$G (view parser state)

$I (view build info)

$N (view startup blocks)

$x=value (save Grbl setting)

$Nx=line (save startup block)

$C (check gcode mode)

$X (kill alarm lock)

$H (run homing cycle)

~ (cycle start)

! (feed hold)

? (current status)

ctrl-x (reset Grbl)

ok

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You typed $, not ?

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Sorry,

?

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Its not showing idle below the ? I just posted

15

I uninstalled 0.9.19 and re-installed 0.9.18 and things are working.

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Which version of GRBL firmware is running on your machine? Is it the weird 1.0c custom “Larry” version, or “real” GRBL?

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Yes, its 1.0c by Larry Mayberry.

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Same here. X-Y jogging no longer works on 0.9.19 but fire and home do. I am using a JTech based GRBL 0.9. Device type set to GRBL-M3. I uninstalled 0.9.19 and reinstalled 0.9.18 and jogging began working again. When I jog in 19 there is a single line output in console “Idle” (Show all is checked), but in 18 I get multiple lines of gcode ending with M2.

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