Hey guys I’ve seen some Fusion 360 tutorials floating around but they are usually pretty vague and undetailed. Sometimes they are completely out of date. And most don’t detail how to do CNC if you need to change bits in between. Does anyone have a good one they can point me to? And related, what are the best ways to set origins for tool changes? Most modern machines have some kind of auto-origin functionality which the Snapmaker doesn’t have but I’m wondering if anyone approximated something like this.
Would this be a good starting point? CNC Repeatable Origin Guide
This is better than nothing I suppose but I would like to see better Snapmaker Official approved documentation on this along with videos on how the company has designed it to be done rather than relying on the community to document basic functionality.
Furthermore, so many CNC machines out there these days work with sensor based tools to determine work origin automatically rather than having the user have to set it manually each time. Why hasn’t Snapmaker done any work in this area to make this possible with the current CNC. Even if it’s working to build a separate board/mechanism that can be used with the CNC to do this calibration, that would be better than nothing.
I feel like despite having put so much effort in designing everything around the CNC they put almost no effort into documenting how to use it or making it easier for users to use.
I often print stuff with the Raspberry Pi with Octoprint connected to the USB in the back. I would love for SM to do more to support things like this where maybe external tools could use the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi to do things like auto calibration, or other custom type modules.