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Every config is a bit different but mostly the same. You can compare to the sim config for verification.

Ah, gotcha

I made those changes to the xml but I see no difference.
ethercat slaves shows both drives in OP but I can't get them to move and the motor shafts act as if no power is present

For anyone wanting to explore FreeCAD I would highly recommend using the latest development versions. There are nightly builds available through a ppa but I personally would (and do) opt for the near weekly builds of the AppImages from here - github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bundle/releases/tag/weekly-builds - Linux, Mac and Window$. No worries about dependences and if any given build has a showstopper bug, you can still have the last weeks to keep going until the next build that will, 99% of the time have that bug fixed. Lots of advanced and more complete features keep showing up. Especially in the CAM workbench.

This is worth reiterating, IMO. Folks seem to be offput by the risk of bugs/crashes in the "weekly" builds, which is both fair and overblown. It's fair in that individual weekly builds occasionally have large issues/bugs (hence Spyderbreath's sound suggestion to not delete your known-working version until you've verified the very latest works). It's overblown in that most of the time they're actually less prone to crashing than 1.0 and have a lot of improvements.

This isn't Microsoft- you can find a weekly build that works for you, and then just not update it if you want a middle ground of getting some of the newer improvements while avoiding most of the instability.

Thank you for the help. I do appreciate it.

In case it helps anyone else willing to give me a hand diagnosing this issue, I've attached my .ini configuration file.

 

hope i did this right

Sorry had a family thing come up I'll post my files up in a min so I can get things checked over befor I power it up and not fry my stuff 

This is the so called "TB6600" with the TB67S109 chip, under 10$ and very good. Get these.

This is the original TB6600 with the TB6600 chip, ~15$ and usable but tend to die for no reason sometimes.

Those TB6600 modules sure seem like an awkward form factor, especially given you need 3 or 4 or 5 of 'em.

Sorry but i can not help as stated above, but i can move this to QtPyVCP section where the masters of Probe Basic reside.




This is a Qtvcp screen so it's in the right place.

More things I learned today, about Grbl:

Say you start a jog, and realize you meant to go the other way, and select the other direction. In LinuxCNC, this Just Works. Using Grbl, first the errant jog has to finish, and only then the next queued jog is executed. Not terribly efficient.

If you try and start a jog that would take the axis too far, you get an error. To clear that error, you need to go to a different tab (I'm using UGS), clear it, then go back to the jogging tab. It may be that there's a way to have both displayed all the time, but even then, having to specifically clear an error from a jog that never happened, seems... difficult.

I'd only started using it recently in LinuxCNC, but I found out today that neither Grbl (not surprising) nor FluidNC (surprising) supports the R parameter to G10 L2/L20. R lets you specify rotation, which can be very handy in cases where it's easier to get your hold-down clamps set securely if you rotate the stock.

This was helpful. I may be misunderstanding the language used here. Is this Offsets table supposed to be the coordinates of each work offset? If so, then it's not populating correctly and not updating when I set coordinate zeros using the gui at the bottom of the image. Am I interpreting this correctly? And if so, do you have any idea as to how I get the gui to talk to this table? It's not clear to me where it's saved. The preferences files I've looked in don't seem to have the necessary information.



 

No problem - thank you!

Love FreeCAD, apart from one little annoying issue.
Used the CAM for making the brackets and nubbins for the Franken Myford CNC conversion. It's my Goto for anything I need to 3D print, even used to help my son with some prototyping ideas when he was doing the additive manufacturing module at Uni.

AliExpress has carrier boards for the little step stick drivers, less than a dollar a pop. You would just need to make some cables with female DuPont connectors at one end and bootlace ferrules at the other, far better than bare wires. That's the setup I use for testing things rather than messing with the mill in the garage.