hi all
i need an arduino soft to drive my vinyl cutting plotter ...any adives or good triels
what is the interface to the cutter ? e.g. analogue control, digital control, I2C, RS232,??
the old mother board is damage , so no electronic ...that's why i need the arduino solution ( i have a cnc shield board and 12VDC sypply for steps motors)
I would probably use an Arduino Mega - reasonable amount of flash and SRAM and lots of IO
do a web search of arduino cnc shield board you will get plenty of links
Does the Arduino software have to be compatible with your PC design software? If so, what is it? Does it use a proprietary comms protocol?
i have it already , it is designed for arduino uno and can drive four motors ,
https://www.google.com/search?q=cnc+shield+board+test&rlz=1C1SQJL_frTN1003TN1003&sxsrf=ALiCzsaj63S6QwhPnwk2TDlbv551pHWkuA:1670576049006&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOn-LflOz7AhVKExoKHaeFA38Q_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1366&bih=625&dpr=1#imgrc=yJfgr9crnAtiGM
of course the arduino is working on my pc ( and made already some experiments )
i have windows 10 istalled , so no problem
Look at GRBL! However you need something between your CAD/CAM software and the Arduino to stream gcode to the latter over the serial link - there are many options, look for the GRBL Wiki.
grbl is ok , but is designed for milling operation ,i.e it takes time to export corel file to g- code (an intermidiate software) and then get the g-code file to cncjs ....so it is a long process , moreover the z axix control is quiet complicated as the driver on cnc shield is dedicated for a step motor and not for for a coil (wich require q servo-motor) in my case
Well, gcode is the almost universal way to drive everything from cnc lathes to mills to 3d printers to laser cutters to routers to... What would you propose instead? Export from CAM to gcode is actually very quick in most cases. What is cncjs? Why would you use it?
And there is a version of GRBL which can drive a servo on Z - it has been referenced on here several times in the context of X-Y plotters.
well , cncjs is the interphase between user and machine ( used to set the step motors , spped acceleartions and so on ) " that's what i learned from youtube " and i have downloaded it and it works , but if you have another way to do it , it will be grate
i have : arduino uno +cnc shield (3 axis)
windows 10 installed
grbl is in my arduino already
There are a number of g-code streamers you can use, they are listed on the GRBL wiki. I guess they do similar things to cncjs, they might be more user-friendly with graphics etc. I use something called GRBL-controller which runs on my phone which does what I need. For "proper" CNC I use Mach3 on lathe and mill. To repeat there is a version of GRBL that will control a servo in the Z axis for the kind of application you have - for a plotter it would be "pen down", for you "knife down".
ok fine , can u send a link ,or something helpful as im quiet new in this field ...
merci
Do a search on this furum for grbl plotter
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