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Scripts and Plugins / Re: V-Engrave Plugin

« on: March 09, 2024, 06:27:32 am »

Have someone tested the V-engrave plugin under Win11 .. ? on a french forum a guy said it is not working.

It works for me. V-Engrave v15.03 on an up-to-date install of Windows 11. I used it a couple of days ago to engrave a serial number on a brass plate.

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Installation Help / Re: Ubuntu Mate - Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS - Not Run

« on: November 11, 2023, 07:27:42 am »

Copy/paste work for me.
But only in the working instance of CB. Although it allows starting a second CB instance copy/paste between the two do not work.

I guess it must be a compatibility bug with different versions of Mono. I'm currently on Kubuntu 23.04 with Mono 6.8.0.105+dfsg-3.3 amd64, but it also didn't work for me on the previous two releases of Kubuntu.

Are you able to reorder items in the Drawing tab (particularly the order of machining operations) by dragging and dropping them? Nothing happens when I try to drag an item.

Other things are broken too, e.g. several dialog boxes have blank buttons.

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Installation Help / Re: Ubuntu Mate - Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS - Not Run

« on: November 10, 2023, 06:34:15 am »

Does anyone have copy and paste/drag and drop working on the Linux version of CamBam? I find it practically unusable without those two features so I frequently have to reboot into Windows.

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Installation Help / Re: After installation in Linux Mint CB is hiding ;)

« on: February 24, 2022, 21:11:04 pm »

Try removing the plugins from ~/Cambam1.0/plugins
If that doesn't help, try starting the program from the command line ("cd ~/Cambam1.0 && ./cambam.sh") and see if any error messages appear.

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Latest News / Re: CamBam on Linux

« on: February 22, 2022, 11:50:30 am »

Just so that's absolutely clear: You cannot Copy/Paste between two running CamBams under Linux.

Sorry to resurrect an ancient topic, but has anyone found a solution to this problem? I've recently been trying out CamBam on Linux (specifically Kubuntu 21.10), and it works fairly well apart from not being able to copy things between two windows, which is something I do quite often as part of my workflow. (I already know about the file merge workaround.) I tried clearing the contents of the KDE clipboard manager widget (which is no longer called Klipper?) as previously suggested, but it didn't make any difference.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: SSL Cert expired?

« on: February 16, 2022, 07:27:00 am »

I prefer the free certificates from Lets Encrypt.
They are automatically renewed after 3 months. Then you don't have the hassle again after a year.
But now it works again for one year.
If David now installs one on his server with the plugins, everything works without having to set up exceptions. 

I use a free Let's Encrypt cert on my server too. There doesn't seem to be any point in paying for one any more.

P.S. I see the cert on this site has been renewed overnight.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: SSL Cert expired?

« on: February 15, 2022, 16:45:40 pm »

It's specifically the certificate for cambamcnc.com. It expired on 11th February 2022. I wouldn't say it is a major security problem to ignore it as long as you don't use the same password to log into other sites (which you should never do anyway).

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Bug Reports / Rename All Tools

« on: October 18, 2019, 07:26:42 am »

I'm not actually sure what this feature is supposed to do, but when I right click on a tool library and select "Rename all tools" it either appears to do nothing or it generates an unhandled exception "An entry with the same key already exists". It does this with the bundled Lathe-mm library which I've never altered, so I don't think it's something screwy about my library. This happens for me on both 0.9.8 and 1.0-rc2.

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Latest News / Re: CamBam plus V1.0 (rc-1)

« on: September 25, 2019, 07:27:38 am »

Hi Andy, glad to see you back and working on CamBam. I haven't tried it yet but am particularly excited by the idea of running CamBam directly on the Raspberry Pi I use to control my CNC mill (it may give me the excuse I've been looking for to upgrade it to a Pi 4!).

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Related Softwares / Re: A question to GRBL users

« on: August 29, 2019, 16:40:16 pm »

I wrote my own sender for some of the reasons you state;  ...

What language and what development environment it is based on?

Multithreaded C, with the GUI part using the Gtk+2 widget set. It also incorporates a Javascript interpreter running a script that does a bit of processing on the G-code as it passes through the program - that's where the canned cycle magic happens. It's also possible to write macro functions in Javascript and call them from a button press or the MDI terminal.

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Related Softwares / Re: A question to GRBL users

« on: August 26, 2019, 15:36:23 pm »

My current workflow is similar to that, except I use a piece of cigarette paper and jog down until it is pinched between the tool and the part. My mill has a manual quickchange tool holder system so a saved tool offset table would save a bit of time per tool change and reduce the chance of error. I haven't yet figured out a good system for measuring the tool length offsets.

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Related Softwares / Re: A question to GRBL users

« on: August 26, 2019, 11:13:29 am »

I wrote my own sender for some of the reasons you state; my main aims were that it be stable and very fast/responsive even on low end hardware (I currently run it on a Raspberry Pi 3 but it also works on Mac - no plans to port it to Windows). It also handles peck drilling codes, though I haven't yet got around to adding tool change offset support. It doesn't do visualisation or CAM, or more than three axes. I had originally intended to make it open source but I'm so busy in my day job that I haven't had the time to clean it up or write documentation suitable for public release.

I'm not sure it's true that grbl was developed for 3D printers; I thought it initially targeted low end CNC routers, and people later forked it so they could add extra features necessary for controlling 3D printers while the mainline grbl stuck to routers/mills/lasers/plasmas etc.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: how to drill

« on: July 31, 2019, 10:18:55 am »

I read that grbl does not support G81 82 or 83 natively because the size of memory in Arduino chip. Is there a way to translate g80 into g0 z from within CB? Maybe a script of some kind?

That's right, I wrote my own g-code sender that interprets canned cycle codes and converts them to sequences of G0/G1. Although it works for my purposes it's not polished enough for public distribution.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: how to drill

« on: July 31, 2019, 06:53:28 am »

I do a lot of drilling with canned cycles and it works OK as long as your controller supports G81, G83, etc. (some simple ones don't). I draw circles the same diameter as the drill bit, but CamBam doesn't seem to care. 0.1mm is insanely small diameter, I would expect LED leads to be more like 0.7-0.9mm.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Can no longer open dxf files

« on: May 20, 2019, 05:26:04 am »

Does your CAD program let you select which version of the DXF format to save as? I think CamBam doesn't officially support versions newer than R2000.