It really is a lifesavior... I am redoing this video now to make it more in depth with an actual screen footage... the online support is so much better than it was a few years ago when I built my first one

@@Legacy4x4andOffRoadYT Great job on the video. Have you thought about upgrading to QtPlasmaC?

Awesome! Thank you! There is another video coming out soon for the software portion, but overall they seem more complicated than they really are.... just a little bit of a learning curve!

I am working on that video, a complete updated more in depth guide. Just havent finished yet, have a few other projects currently ongoing! But hopefully in the next few weeks we can have this update out for everyone.

The first build was actually sold to (partly) fund this build. It was kinda a big learning curve on the first one so this one was able to become much more efficient. The overview video for this one is scheduled to release on monday for it. It goes over the differences and nuances a bit more.. These damn things are just so complicated to get right, so the videos for them are incredibly long and dry... but hey, if that's what you got to do to make it work so be it.

It’s much better than the last one! Still doing some fine tuning but it’s off to a great start

Go for it! They sure do make life unbelievably easier

@@Legacy4x4andOffRoadYT yes I loved it, but I wasn't sure how easy it was to re-learn

You're welcome! We usually are much faster about commenting back so if you ever need more help and you think we might be able to point you in right direction feel free to reach out! We are by no means experts, but after building a few its not too bad!

I plan on redoing this whole video with a lot more detail using my other computer and some proper screen capture software. I understand how hard it is to see the screen in this one, but at the time of this video my other computer was not set up to mirror a linuxcnc for recording.

But thank you for watching I hope you still learned something!

on our website, we will update it shortly!

Awesome! I’ll keep an eye out for it!

Sorry for the late reply. but yes in the software you will have to reverse the direction for one of the two Y Axis Tandem motors in order to get it to move properly. They are mounted in reverse of each other so one will get swapped or it will bind. This is a simple box to check as you go through the Mesa setup that will swap the direction of travel, the box asks to "reverse motor" or something to that effect. Keep all other settings the same and they will work flawlessly.

Yes fusion 360 will work just fine, ultimately you need any of numerous cad programs do to a basic design(you can even use Inkscape for simple 2d ones) and then you’ll need Sheetcam to convert a dxf over to the g code for the machine. There are some other programs but Sheetcam is cheap and extremely good for this

So you kind of bounce through multiple programs to get to the g code that is required for the machine. Sheetcam does have some very basic modeling capabilities that can do like simple brackets and shapes and such, linuxcnc also hs some very basic shapes and models thag can be cut as well

Jake is currently occupied by the Army for the next month, I will let him know to come back to this comment when he gets back. Sorry about that, by that time he will also be making a better updated version of this video

Thank him for his service, I think I received the answer from another source@@Legacy4x4andOffRoadYT

Username for linuxcnc is "Riggorous", I admittedly do not post too much there but I should contribute more. After this video, completely off camera I did have to go through and correct a lot for the THC. I was getting a lot of interference in the case from some unnecessary voltage. I have since corrected my values and it is working perfectly but eventually I will be rebuilding the case to solve the voltage issue. Those issues were more in the design than the software. To your third point, yes you are right and I think I just did a poor job explaining it in this video. I do owe myself and update haha just havent in a minute but I will look in to it! Thanks for the tip. The guide is actually perfect, truthfully I am more mechanically included than software side of things so it was just a learning curve for me personally. I have a mechanical engineering background and am curious about other stuff but there was a bit of a learning curve for me just moving to software. I have the mahcine working really well now though after some trial and error and testing though so all good! I need to switch to auto volts but that is part of the random voltage problem I am having, until I solve that I cannot swtich to auto volts yet. But soon! I plan on rebuilding my case with the same components but better isolation. I will look at your videos, constantly trying to learn as much as I can! I will be updating this video in the future to when I rebuild my case and can get my other computer to run a mirror of linuxcnc but been caught up with other projects and life stuff! Thank you for watching and thank you for the comments!

@@Legacy4x4andOffRoadYT Glad you got it all going! Yea, voltage issues can really be a PITA, but once you get that stable, it'll cut like butter. I have a mechanical engineering degree myself, and I felt all of the documentation was written from a "someone who already knows how to use linuxcnc" standpoint, which I later found out was true since the developer wrote the first user guide. At any rate, good to know it's in ship shape for now. I havent taken the leap of "turn the camera around and start talking" yet, maybe one of these days...

@@snowgoer540 I fully agree! and turning the camera around was weird for me when we started too but you get used to it. Thank you for the help and support!