firmware for a milling machine on DUET
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Who can help on the merits. how to make DUET work like a milling machine?
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And how can you write it in a clearer way?. And then I read and it is not clearly written everything is somehow superficial. There are no clear instructions, it is not explained how to generate the firmware. that something needs to be put somewhere. can you give a full review or not?
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@sergei it's the normal firmware.
You add M453 to your config.g and the board is in CNC mode. -
@sergei There are two different pieces within Duet (RRF). The "firmware" is the code that drives the motors and reads the sensors. The firmware treats CNCs slightly different from 3d printers (e.g. you don't need an extruder) and so my milling machine and CNC router announce to the firmware that they're CNC devices. Mainly the firmware is device-agnostic.
In addition there is a user interface (DWC - Duet Web Control) that talks to the firmware. There is a version of the DWC specific to CNCs (see the post in this section) that you can use that will totally change the dashboard look and feel to be friendlier to a CNC. I use this on a CNC router because it fits the router - it supports selecting a coordinate system and it has a much larger position display. I use the stock DWC on my milling machine because imho it fits my style better.
