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Hi!
So the cnc is now moving and it was the SPI cable shielding!!! Thank you Scotta and tommylight!!!

But now we have another, issue, we are using 2 stepper motors for the Y-axis each of the stepper motors is connected to one stepper driver and we have the config setup in a way so that joint 1 pulses both, but that doesn't seem to be happening, only on Y motor moves, and the x axis moves as well, the z axis actually just doesn't move at all.
 

Is that the config file you have loaded? There are no TMC5160 driver configuration in your config. For each stepper you need to load a stepgen, as you have done, as well as configure the TMC driver. I'll share a config over the weekend.

Hi Shemj,Thank you so much for your help with getting the EtherCAT drives set up! Following your guide, I’ve successfully managed to connect all three drives, and they’re now running with the Probe Basic interface. The only step left is calibrating them to get the correct mm/rev on each axis.I’d really appreciate some suggestions on how to connect the spindle drive:

• Current setup:
  • The machine’s three axes are using EtherCAT, connected through a daisy chain of Ethernet cables.
  • The spindle came with a 1.2 kW generic Chinese servo motor and drive, which has a 15-pin RS-232 serial connector.
• Questions/options I’m exploring:
  1. Using Beckhoff hardware:
     • I have a Beckhoff EK1100. Could this be used with the appropriate module to control the spindle servo drive?
  2. Using a Mesa board:
     • Would connecting a Mesa board to the Pi via a USB-to-Ethernet adapter work, or would that introduce unnecessary complications?
  3. Alternative hardware setup:
     • Replace the Pi 5 with something like an Odroid H4 (dual Ethernet ports). That way one port could handle the Mesa board and the other the EtherCAT drives.
  4. Replacing the spindle drive:
     • The supplied spindle drive is an XCSD-20A from cncservocontrol.com. Are there any EtherCAT-compatible alternatives that would work with my motor?
• Motor details:
  • Model: 80ST-M04030LBP
  • Power: 1.2 kW
  • Current: 5.2 A
  • Voltage: 220 V
  • Torque: 4.0 N·m
  • Speed: 3000 rpm
  • Encoder: 2500 PPR

If anyone has advice or suggestions on the best approach to integrate the spindle motor/drive, I’d be very grateful! 

   

Just in case it's not solved yet:
Use capital letters for ini file entrys...

There are no
N75 M3 $0 S1
in the gcode after the first piece, and no M5 at the end of the cut except for the first cut.
Those must be added by the post processor.

 
 remap=m6 modalgroup=6 prolog=change_prolog....

maybe I solved the problem, I removed one line of code from ini.file, I don't know if it was a good solution but for now everything works