As far as the dust collection brackets hitting the gantry brackets, if you adjust your homing switches directly over the black/white circle in the corner of the cutting area, the brackets will not hit the gantry. it appeared from the video that your spindle was travelling past the lowest right corner.
William - thanks for watching and commenting. That is a great suggestion. I would think the installation instructions would mention that., but after over 2 yearrs, I guess you've solved my problem! 💪
Hey! Couldnt you just preposition the homing switches to be a little shy of the gantry mobility limits and to line up with the wasteboard grid home position? From what I can see in the video, you're trying to home the machine outside of said grid..Maybe I'm wrong and it's just the camera angle?
I just repositioned my homing switches on X and Y axis slightly and the problem went away. Also, simply being aware of the plunge depth makes the issue of plunging through the acrylic plate go away - I guess that's why you get two plates in the kit :-) There is a PDF with dimensions for a replacement plate - I plan to make a couple more soon...
I seems like moving the limit switch in to compensate will cause me to look about an inch of x cutting space, no? Thanks for the comments and don't forget to subscribe!
Re-positioning the switches doesn't really seem like a great option. Only because one has just spent 1500 (roughly) for this thing, and then they have to manually assemble the entire thing. You would think that for the money spent, Inventables would be sure to knock out these little issues before selling the product. They send you a replacement bracket to move your z probe plug when you buy the dust collector kit. Wish they would have sent out a few more things to make it work without issue. No one wants to manually move the dust collector arms every time they go to start up the machine.
Wish I would have looked up videos before I ran it after installing the dust collector. Had the same homing problem, and then also completely shattered the acrylic plate. They send 2, probably because they know its inevitable. Personally, I am not sure how they could have sent those arms out without seeing the effects on the homing system. There is literally no way to home it, aside from manually raising the plate up to home, (which kind of gets annoying with this being "automated"). I'm not sure how i feel about the entire system overall. It feels like there is a lot of things that a user needs to do to prevent error for the xcarve to run. It would be nice if they gave more detail in the instructions. Might help prevent a lot of problems for beginners.
Would you be able to maybe dremel out a section of that gantry plate that’s in the way? Just curious, I’m about ready to purchase this and wondering if they may have addressed this issue now.
You could or move the limit switch. The latter would reduce your cutting size though. I do not believe the Shapeoko has this problem, nor the Onefinity. Thanks for watching!
Hello Goodnight. Very interesting your review. Watching your video made me rectify the design of my dust shoe. I have my X carve of 1000mm. and for reasons of space I do not have a workshop to work on so I am working in my kitchen. I live in a very small apt. And therefore the problem with the dust generated by the machine. Because of this and for money saving issues. buy the machine without waste board, home switches and vacuum system, I made my home switch system, probe system waste board and vacuum. Back to the topic. I suggest you download I have printed in 3d the arms that hold this shoe system. I made my correction about it to avoid the inconvenience of when you change the bits the shoe interferes. I gave myself the task of looking for a solution to this problem. and believe me, that I am proud of what I invent, I believe that with this combination of Eric Pavey from Belmont, CA who very cordial gave us his design of his dust shoe to download for free and distribute without any type of economic benefit for 3D printer, and a change in its design made by me to modify certain interference as in this case yours that the shoe does not let you do the home procedure. My design covers and solves these 2 drawbacks, change of drill and home procedure. Here I leave the links of my design and ready in easel you adjust and make the changes according to your likes and materials to use, and I leave the link of the Eric Pavey design. If you need the DXF contactme in my chanel. easel.inventables.com/projects/ZCtSstf7C6onnfiYWND3Qg My change to its original design www.thingiverse.com/thing:2173106 Eric's design
Hi Steve - thanks for watching. It depends on how you initiate the bit change and how the machine reacts. If you are using M6 and the machine returns to some known position -- specifically home - then yes, it will interfere with the change operation. If the machine returns so some "safe" location other than home, there should not be any interference. I generally keep my gcode files separate for different bits. My machine returns to a known location when the op is complete (position set using G28), I change the bit, zero as necessary, load the new program and off I go. My "known" position is way far away from home for this specific reason. Hope this helps!
As far as the dust collection brackets hitting the gantry brackets, if you adjust your homing switches directly over the black/white circle in the corner of the cutting area, the brackets will not hit the gantry. it appeared from the video that your spindle was travelling past the lowest right corner.
William - thanks for watching and commenting. That is a great suggestion. I would think the installation instructions would mention that., but after over 2 yearrs, I guess you've solved my problem! 💪
Hey! Couldnt you just preposition the homing switches to be a little shy of the gantry mobility limits and to line up with the wasteboard grid home position? From what I can see in the video, you're trying to home the machine outside of said grid..Maybe I'm wrong and it's just the camera angle?
I just repositioned my homing switches on X and Y axis slightly and the problem went away. Also, simply being aware of the plunge depth makes the issue of plunging through the acrylic plate go away - I guess that's why you get two plates in the kit :-) There is a PDF with dimensions for a replacement plate - I plan to make a couple more soon...
Roger on the plunging - just wasn't anything I considered before it happened.
Thanks for the comments and don't forget to subscribe!
I seems like moving the limit switch in to compensate will cause me to look about an inch of x cutting space, no?
Thanks for the comments and don't forget to subscribe!
Re-positioning the switches doesn't really seem like a great option. Only because one has just spent 1500 (roughly) for this thing, and then they have to manually assemble the entire thing. You would think that for the money spent, Inventables would be sure to knock out these little issues before selling the product.
They send you a replacement bracket to move your z probe plug when you buy the dust collector kit. Wish they would have sent out a few more things to make it work without issue. No one wants to manually move the dust collector arms every time they go to start up the machine.
You can adjust your home switch on the front left. Just loosen it and move it back just far enough to keep it from hitting.
Yep, but you do sacrifice a little cutting area though. Thanks for watching!
@@cyberreefguru probably just a little. Or maybe cut a little off of than one arm?
@@Aikidoman06 Yep, either should work.
Wish I would have looked up videos before I ran it after installing the dust collector. Had the same homing problem, and then also completely shattered the acrylic plate. They send 2, probably because they know its inevitable.
Personally, I am not sure how they could have sent those arms out without seeing the effects on the homing system. There is literally no way to home it, aside from manually raising the plate up to home, (which kind of gets annoying with this being "automated").
I'm not sure how i feel about the entire system overall. It feels like there is a lot of things that a user needs to do to prevent error for the xcarve to run. It would be nice if they gave more detail in the instructions. Might help prevent a lot of problems for beginners.
Would you be able to maybe dremel out a section of that gantry plate that’s in the way? Just curious, I’m about ready to purchase this and wondering if they may have addressed this issue now.
You could or move the limit switch. The latter would reduce your cutting size though. I do not believe the Shapeoko has this problem, nor the Onefinity. Thanks for watching!
too funny.. I have to say, I think your comments are fair. Good job on the video
Thanks Jim - I appreciate the positive feedback!
Hello Goodnight. Very interesting your review. Watching your video made me rectify the design of my dust shoe. I have my X carve of 1000mm. and for reasons of space I do not have a workshop to work on so I am working in my kitchen. I live in a very small apt. And therefore the problem with the dust generated by the machine. Because of this and for money saving issues. buy the machine without waste board, home switches and vacuum system, I made my home switch system, probe system waste board and vacuum. Back to the topic. I suggest you download I have printed in 3d the arms that hold this shoe system. I made my correction about it to avoid the inconvenience of when you change the bits the shoe interferes. I gave myself the task of looking for a solution to this problem. and believe me, that I am proud of what I invent, I believe that with this combination of Eric Pavey from Belmont, CA who very cordial gave us his design of his dust shoe to download for free and distribute without any type of economic benefit for 3D printer, and a change in its design made by me to modify certain interference as in this case yours that the shoe does not let you do the home procedure. My design covers and solves these 2 drawbacks, change of drill and home procedure. Here I leave the links of my design and ready in easel you adjust and make the changes according to your likes and materials to use, and I leave the link of the Eric Pavey design. If you need the DXF contactme in my chanel.
easel.inventables.com/projects/ZCtSstf7C6onnfiYWND3Qg My change to its original design
www.thingiverse.com/thing:2173106 Eric's design
Can’t the home position be changed in the software?
Not alone - it's dependent on the location of the homing switches. Thanks for watching!
does it get in the way when you do a bit change
Hi Steve - thanks for watching. It depends on how you initiate the bit change and how the machine reacts. If you are using M6 and the machine returns to some known position -- specifically home - then yes, it will interfere with the change operation. If the machine returns so some "safe" location other than home, there should not be any interference. I generally keep my gcode files separate for different bits. My machine returns to a known location when the op is complete (position set using G28), I change the bit, zero as necessary, load the new program and off I go. My "known" position is way far away from home for this specific reason. Hope this helps!
you could just adjust the homing switches stops
Hi Jim - I could be then I'd lose ~1-2" of y travel on the left side. And I couldn't b*tch about the poor engineering ;) Thanks for watching!