Hi,
I got myself a 3018 CNC to mill circuit boards or other small things.
This is my first point of contact with CNC milling, so please beginner-friendly answers ;D
Setup and commissioning went smoothly. I have calibrated the eSteps and when I move 10 mm in x, y or z I also measure exactly this with my caliper.
Now to the problem: If I want to mill a test groove created with Easel, it does not adhere to the parameters stored there, whereas GRBL does:
According to the .nc file (test1.zip), the groove should become 0.6 mm deep by 3 a 0.2 mm deep milling passes.
According to the included GRBL software (only that seems to work), the CNC mill also follows this exactly.
However, 0.6 mm is removed on the first pass (but according to GRBL, the spindle is only at z=-0.2 mm working coordinate). In the two subsequent passes, the mill removes nothing more, but the working coordinate in GRBL Candle does nicely what they should do.
I hope you have some good ideas