Got my X35 in July of 2021. It has run flawlessly ever since, less a few operator error issues. Fast forward 3.5 years, I decide to try my hand at a pretty intricate 3D carve. Seven hours later it was done, you could tell what is was, but I know my X35 can do better. I was told with my firmware being at 1.0.7, my 3D work would be limited and slow. I was advised to upgrade to better support 3D functions. The control panel wanted to upgrade to 1.4.2. I fully subscribe to the “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!” philosophy, but for the sake of better 3D carves and going against what my gut was telling me, I let the controller update itself from 1.0.7 to 1.4.2 via the internet. I do believe there was a file loaded into the controller when I did the update. Now my X35 won’t carve. It starts, it homes (albeit with a Z-axis measurement error), it will probe XYZ, but when I try and carve the file, it throws errors at me telling me the measurements are off and then runs the gantry all the way to the center of the back of the table. In the past I’ve found the X35 will act up during the homing process if I boot it up with a file loaded. Under 1.4.2, I can’t get the controller to let me delete the file.
How do I unscrew the mess I made?
Can I revert it back to 1.0.7?
Is it possible to put a new preloaded sd-card in the controller that will bypass the process of an “upgrade?”
Well, fiddle sticks. Tried redownloading the update to no avail … twice, once to the original SD-Card and once to a new SD-Card. So I ordered a new pre-flashed SD-Card from Onefinity. It arrived as scheduled. Took considerably longer to boot, but once it did things seemed to be working appropriately. It homed just fine, I tried to probe XY&Z. Now the Z axis only goes down about half way. Won’t go down far enough to reach the probing block. The Z-Slider in mounted on the center hole, where it’s been for three years. Tried rebooting several time, tried restarting several times … No Joy! I disconnected the Z-motor and manually pushed the z-slider down. Reconnected and it would only go half way up. Had to do a cold boot on it to get the machine to bring the z-axis to the top. Attempted to probe for XY&Z again and got the same result. The only setting I found I thought might help was selecting the machine. I changed it to Router. Had no effect. Now I’ve lost the customer I was going to do the original 3d carve for. Now frustration is setting in.
In the description of the sd card listing, it states you need to reset the configuration of the controller to your machine and z slider type on first boot up.
OT Long time no speak, am beginning to realize your wisdom about g code is well placed. For a couple of years have been struggling with trying to learn the software that many use, and not been getting anywhere, Last night I downloaded a g code editor and a whole new universe is opening. My current goal is to write my own program to flatten a cutting board glue up. Thank you. Ynot