First time CNC owner trying to follow the instructions and videos available to do my first cut. I have the machine setup and working but when I try the included test program per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H82Q2ua9f1s then something is going wrong.
After homing and using the xyz probe to zero the material when I run the program the bit just goes slowly down in z until it hits the material and doesn’t stop, going all the way into the waste board. What am I doing wrong here?
Attaching photos of my setup showing the xyz probe step and the resulting hole that it mills down.
I haven’t gotten that far yet. I am using the provided test file from Onefinity that makes the sign that they include with the hardware. I haven’t modified the file at all.
Okay well it was user error. I didn’t realize the G-code was commanding a second z-probe step after the tool-change step (because I had started with the bit installed it didn’t occur to me why it would probe for z again).
Because there was no probe connected the z-probe step just plunged down until it hit a limit or I stopped it manually.
Once I did the z-probe step as required everything worked as expected.
