I've finally got my machine set up and running now in Mach3, it has soft limits, is calibrated and homed etc, so it's ready to roll basically (Estop installed!!), but I want to try making it just write something on paper with a sharpie pen first.
I'm trying to make a suitable file to test it with but getting nowhere.
Mach3 has a write wizard but every time I enter a value in a field like the 'tool n' or feed rate etc (as per a youtube video showing how to use this plugin) then move to a different field it zeroes the value of whatever I just added.
I tried instead to use a little text to gcode application I found which generates dxf files and it seems to create files of gcode ok from text you write but when I load & run in Mach3 I get a bad character error on the first line. I'm not savvy really with gcode but the first line of code is a zero, followed by 'section' on the next line.
If you got any suggestions, or know where I can just download an example file to make it write something with a pen it would be brilliant thanks mate. So close to using it but doing something stupid I guess!
Really appreciate any advice, thanks!