Ya, those are correct, and since your test fire is working, we know the wiring, and the ESS/Mach4 configuration are good as well.
The only thing I have seen that would cause Gcode to not work, but still have test fire work is the analog pin setup to not work. That’s why I sent you the other post processor last night. That uses the M62/63 command and doesn’t use the analog capability, so if that post processor works, and the first one (that uses M67) doesn’t, then we know what to focus on.
jim
So I have not been out to the shop for awhile, And went out today to run the laser and the test fire still works but when running a gcode with 62 PP it goes to the first gcode line and stops?
thats odd. When you say the test fire works, you mean from the Mach4 screen, not from the Opt adapter box, right?
Hey Greg. I’m pretty new to CNC and opt(2 weeks) it seems I am having same issues you were having. I can test fire but the laser won’t fire when I run the gcode. Did you ever get this sorted out. Thanks in advance
Check your Macros directory too. C:\Mach4Hobby\Profiles\AvidCNC\Macros
There should be M2000 to M2005 macros in there.
Jim
This is what it says when I run gcode. Someone smarter than me entered the m67 e1q1 to make it fire. Which worked but only when manual
Looks like there is.
Your will have to forgive me though, I don’t know what macros are yet, and what I’ve sent picture of is gibberish to me .
Ok, your macros are there, but I can see that a lot of your laser settings are wrong from that first screen you posted.
Lets back up a little. Do you have the standard laser kit from AVID, or did you install the Opt laser by itself?
That screen/code was altered to make it fire, so I’m not sure that’s what it would look like in normal circumstances. ( again, I’m not sure what changes were even made) this is what normal looks like
I have the universal laser kit from opt. Set up from the videos that avid/opt/youtube recommended. I don’t have the deployable laser system so I only have the 2 wires connected. One to a ground maybe (18) and I may be remember ing wrong , but the pwm on 7 and a fake gate set up on 8 or something like that. With the corresponding changes made in the plugins/configuration.
Ok, since you have just the laser on the AVID machine, then I’ll point you to my laser setup documentation for AVID on Mach4.
Here is a Google drive with all my documentation: Mach4_ESS - Google Drive
Go through the laser setup pdf file and see that everything is setup according to that. Then use the Vectric post processor in the post processors directory.
If you’ve done all that and it still doesn’t work, email me at jnwdwks@gmail.com and we can go from there.
Jim
