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    • cjmundefined
      cjm
      last edited by cjm

      I’ve been using the preview version for a few jobs and find it a big improvement on the standard DWC for CNC. A couple of thoughts from this experience are:

      The X and Y are displayed to 1 decimal place. For me it would be useful to be able to see 2 decimal places, perhaps selectable as a machine specific option, or maybe just on the DRO plug-in screen?

      In the jog plug-in screen, buttons to set X,Y and Z to zero in the current work coordinate system would be very useful (as has been mentioned by others).

      However, perhaps a better option might be to provide access to macro buttons on the right hand side of either the jog screen or DRO screen and then we can define our own macros to set XY, do Z-probing etc.?

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      • Sindariusundefined
        Sindarius @cjm
        last edited by

        @cjm Thank you for the feedback. As mentioned some of these items are on my todo list. The extra decimal places make sense to me as well. I will play with the jog control a bit more. Probably switch the home buttons out and put in a home machine and go to zero set of buttons.

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        • Adamfilipundefined
          Adamfilip
          last edited by

          Great Job!

          My suggestions:
          JOG - Add incremental or Continuous movement
          JOG - Right click on buttons to adjust movement amounts

          DRO - Increase frequency of updates and Increase to 2 decimal places
          DRO - show conversion under smaller each in inches 0.001"

          DRO.jpg

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          • Sindariusundefined
            Sindarius @Adamfilip
            last edited by

            @Adamfilip Thanks for the feedback.

            I need to look further into continuous movement. I tried some experiments with it and the problem that I ran into is that it tends to overshoot because the gcode commands are queued. The other jog control plugin that I wrote for gamepads has a similar issue.

            As far as frequency that is driven by the DWC getting updates from the Duet. Under machine specific you can adjust the frequency of updates (Default is 250ms). Lowering that number will increase the number of updates which will cause the UI to refresh quicker.

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            • wilrikerundefined
              wilriker @Sindarius
              last edited by

              @Sindarius said in Preview version of CNC optimized DWC.:

              I need to look further into continuous movement. I tried some experiments with it and the problem that I ran into is that it tends to overshoot because the gcode commands are queued. The other jog control plugin that I wrote for gamepads has a similar issue.

              An idea that just came to my mind: how about a user-switch to select between incremental and continuous movement and the latter will accumulate all jog commands until the user stops sending movement commands for e.g. 1s (possibly configurable). While this time show a small indicator on where the journey will end and only send the movement once this "presetting" is done?

              Not sure if it's a good idea to do it like that. But I wanted to toss it into the ring.

              Manuel
              Duet 3 6HC (v0.6) with RPi 4B on a custom Cartesian
              with probably always latest firmware/DWC (incl. betas or self-compiled)
              My Tool Collection

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              • Sindariusundefined
                Sindarius @wilriker
                last edited by

                @wilriker I do something similar to what mention with my gamepad jogging plugin. When you first hold down a control on the game pad the first few moves stutter a little before moving at a smooth pace.

                The CNC control I have personally used the most uses a USB connection so it doesn't have to worry about packet travel.

                It's worth playing with it some more, I do understand the desire for continuous jogging especially on larger machines.

                https://github.com/Sindarius/DWC_GamepadJogger_Plugin

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                • AverageUserundefined
                  AverageUser
                  last edited by AverageUser

                  Hi guys, I'm not really into this whole github thing. I think you are doing AN AMAZING work here. But I have no idea how i can run DWC-CNC on my Duet2wifi... can somebody give an idiot(me^^) a hint?!

                  (I uploaded the files of the release: Duet Release.png
                  into my www-folder of the SD Card.. But my interface still looks like the 3D-printer interface:
                  Duet Interface.png

                  I also added M453 into the config file:
                  duet config.png

                  can it be that my firmware is too old?
                  Duet Firmware.png

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                  • chrishammundefined
                    chrishamm administrators @AverageUser
                    last edited by

                    @AverageUser Perhaps it's still cached. Try pressing Ctrl+Shift+R to reload DWC.

                    Duet software engineer

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                    • AverageUserundefined
                      AverageUser @chrishamm
                      last edited by

                      @chrishamm already tried: did not change.

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                      • chrishammundefined
                        chrishamm administrators @AverageUser
                        last edited by

                        @AverageUser You can upload the DWC-SD ZIP file on the System page too. Does that work?

                        Duet software engineer

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                        • AverageUserundefined
                          AverageUser @chrishamm
                          last edited by

                          @chrishamm And what do I do with the files inside the www-folder then? Erase them?

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                          • chrishammundefined
                            chrishamm administrators @AverageUser
                            last edited by

                            @AverageUser Under normal circumstances you don't need to worry about extra files, they don't take up much space. When you upload the ZIP bundle on the System Files page, the existing files in /www are automatically overwritten.

                            Duet software engineer

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                            • AverageUserundefined
                              AverageUser @chrishamm
                              last edited by AverageUser

                              @chrishamm Okey i put the zip.file in the sys-folder:
                              DWC in Sys.png

                              and deleted all the files in the www-folder. Let's see what happens.

                              No it says this:
                              mounted error.png

                              Im completely lost with this... lol ^^

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                              • chrishammundefined
                                chrishamm administrators @AverageUser
                                last edited by

                                @AverageUser Oh well, I wasn't talking about the physical sys directory but about the Files => System page on DWC itself. That lets you update DWC by using the Upload button.

                                Now that the www directory is gone, create a new 'www' directory in the root of your SD card and unzip the DWC zip file into it. Make sure you have index.html.gz in there so it can be loaded from the Duet again.

                                Duet software engineer

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                                • AverageUserundefined
                                  AverageUser
                                  last edited by AverageUser

                                  Nothing, i just cant make the dashboard change into cnc mode: CNC MODE Selected.png
                                  here it states that it is in CNC Mode. After refreshing: nothing changes.

                                  I have no idea what im doing wrong.

                                  But the plugins are there, like jog...
                                  Plugins.png

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                                  • chimaeraghundefined
                                    chimaeragh
                                    last edited by

                                    I am facing the same issue. Duet2Wifi, Reprap firmware 2.05.1

                                    Duet 2 Wifi, Ooznest Workbee CNC 1510

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                                    • jay_s_ukundefined
                                      jay_s_uk
                                      last edited by

                                      do you have M453 in your config to put it into CNC mode?

                                      Owns various duet boards and is the main wiki maintainer for the Teamgloomy LPC/STM32 port of RRF. Assume I'm running whatever the latest beta/stable build is

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                                      • weed2allundefined
                                        weed2all @AverageUser
                                        last edited by

                                        @AverageUser you need to update your duet wifi server...it wont work on 1.22

                                        https://www.thingiverse.com/weed2all/designs

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                                        • Phaedruxundefined
                                          Phaedrux Moderator @AverageUser
                                          last edited by Phaedrux

                                          @AverageUser said in Preview version of CNC optimized DWC.:

                                          can it be that my firmware is too old?

                                          @chimaeragh said in Preview version of CNC optimized DWC.:

                                          I am facing the same issue. Duet2Wifi, Reprap firmware 2.05.1

                                          Yes. You're going to want to update your firmware and DWC first before trying the CNC stuff.

                                          If you still have access to DWC. Upload these 3 zip files, one at a time in the system tab. Don't extract them. Reboot after each. Use M115 to verify the firmware has been applied.
                                          https://github.com/Duet3D/RepRapFirmware/releases/download/2.05.1/Duet2Firmware-2.05.1.zip
                                          https://github.com/Duet3D/RepRapFirmware/releases/download/3.0/Duet2and3Firmware-3.0.zip
                                          https://github.com/Duet3D/RepRapFirmware/releases/download/3.2/Duet2and3Firmware-3.2.zip
                                          That will get your firmware and DWC up to date.

                                          For your config, might be a good idea to run through the configurator tool and generate a fresh set for RRF3.
                                          https://configtool.reprapfirmware.org/Start

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                                          • Sindariusundefined
                                            Sindarius @jay_s_uk
                                            last edited by

                                            As @jay_s_uk stated the machine has to be in CNC mode for the new dashboard to kick in.

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