PicEngrave Forum

Thank you Marcelo. And as well, may our God bless you and your family, too, and bring peace and comfort to all.

Email sent earlier. Please advise if you do not get it.
For other members, the issue is the third line down in the gcode file, where it says "(Image File . . .)". There is a second set of parens - "( )" - in the line, and grbl will not accept that.
John

I don't use Easel, so I can not explain why it uses the port it does. But PicSender only uses the com port numbers as assigned by Windows. The error you get when trying to home can be found on PicSender's GRBL screen (click the GRBL button). Error 5 is 'Homing cycle is not enabled via settings"...

PicSender V3.0.0 is now available for downloading.
As always, your comments, bug reports, suggestions, comments, and criticisms are all welcomed.
https://www.picengrave.com/Contact.htm

PicSender will increase in price to $34.95 on June 1, 2019. The new version (V3) should be in full release by then. All registered users can still upgrade at no cost.
Jeffery Woodcock and John Champlain

Tim, I apologize for missing your post.
Orient the beam to a 45 degree angle to the X axis, and engrave at a 45 degree angle for best results.
I prefer to use the 45 degree left angle.
John Champlain

Joe,
Can you post a screen shot for me to look at? Or you can email one to me at:

It will help me to know what you are seeing.
Thanks,
John

Joe, It is not PicEngrave. It sounds like is the display resolution setting on your computer. Likely the settings have been changed from the default. It may possible be your graphics hardware if it is changing by itself without intentional setting changes. but if hardware, other program displays sho...

Great work Wayne. Sorry I missed this until now.

My apologies, but I have never tried to engrave cork myself, and so I have no clue as to what advise to give you re settings. For testing, you might try using the small test image available here to use on some scrap cork. https://www.picengrave.com/MiscFiles/Shaders.zip I will be interested in how i...