JarnoOoink October 28,am 1.Estlcam is a powerful program meant to assist users in designing their own 3D models for printing. What motion planner are you using? Is it something you developed internally, or an extant opensource project? If so, which one? Estlcam machine controller Software. Most of the work is done by the computer and only a few time critical tasks by the Arduino. However the machine control module can be used for free without limitations. How closely coupled are the front-end and back-end? At the moment Estlcam may not work with some Arduino UNO clones because it uses kbit for comminication which seems to be no problem for the original but is an issue for some clones and fakes. It also does a lot of preprocessing on the computer instead of sending the original g-code to the Arduino. The main advantage of Estlcams machine controller is continuous jogging and Xbox gamepad support. Think of it as a bonus, if you are interested.Įstlcam is a CAM program and machine controller. But the Easel jog controls and carve button will do nothing. After this, Easel has no control over the X-Carve. I had to flash a new grbl in order to use the onscreen machine controls jog buttons in Estlcam. One with the Gcode generated by Easel and one with the Gcode generated by EstlCAM both on the same machine with no change to the machine.

And once you have setup the X-Carve to use Estlcam you must reflash the Arduino to return to stock configuration. This means that you cannot use Easel and Estlcam simultaneously. You can only use it to generate Gcode using a post processor for your machine. This software just looks really good to me, and I would have already purchased it, but it appears to be PC only, and not MAC, so I have not tried it yet. I think some of the things that this software can do are an even bigger reason for that evolution in technology. It just seems that Christian has some things worked out that would be a great addition to OUR software. They are doing a really good job in user interface and simplicity. I think Easel is great … but it is not as sophisticated as Estlcam … so why not work together to enhance the entire universe.Īnd at the same time, turn current Estlcam customers on to the X-Carve. I think either company would do well by taking your or another company that has this figured out and implementing a version of the software that would drive and empower their machines and incorporating it into their own software. I have seen Eslicam online in videos, and it appears to be more sophisticated and at the same time simpler than the software provided by Inventables, or Carbide.

ChristianKnull Is it possible to make a preset setting for the xcarve? The Shapeoko 3, and also the X-Carve. It has some nice features, i think the most of you find interesting. I saw that estlcam uploaded a new youtube video about the machine controll capability of this program.

Estlcam carve