Hello
I’m interested in what software you use to control the Root 3 lite machine. I am finishing the project soon, but I am in doubt whether to use marlin or grbl firmare. I made a lot of 3d printers with Marlin firmare and I use it quite well, but unlike 3d printers (that use slice programs to generate g code) I can hardly find software to control and upload g code for cnc router who support marlin firmare. Except for cncgcodecontroller for which there are no specific instructions on how to use it.
best regards
Hi Davor.
I used Marlin extensively with my Root machine and works well. one problem it has is the pre planning buffer that plans all the moves out before its done it. unfortunately this behaviour isn’t acceptable for CNC machine and instead I have been adopting GRBL, more specifically ESP32 GRBL and Fluid NC. with my new controller.
CNCGCODECONTROLLER is great for generating simple machine jobs. but most people use fusion360, Solidworks and Freecad which all have CAM processors built into them.
You might want to look at CAM software in more details.
Once you’ve used the CAM software to generate the Gcode then any old Gcode sender will work fine.
Hope that helps