Welcome to the bCNC wiki!

Advise:

Most of the documentation here is shown using screen captures from bCNC version 0.5.
From version 0.6 a new interface has been introduced, with a lot of new features and a complete restyle, but which still needs to be documented. Nevertheless all commands and concepts presented here are available in the new version, maybe in a different place or form.

Contents

• Connecting
• Configuration
• Jogging
• WCS/Workspaces
• Probe/Auto Level
• Probe/Camera Alignment
• Editor
• Tools
• Pendant Web remote control
• Command Line
• Plugins

Installation

• Requirements
• List of successful OS installations

File formats

• G-Code Native import/export of g-code, with automatic expansion of canned cycles

• DXF importing and exporting with some limitations (e.g. text is ignored, unless exploded) Setting the

  [File] dxfloopmerge=1

  in the .bCNC ini file will try to merge closed path loops with others. It can be time consuming, but will result in more optimized g-code. Default is off.

• STL exporting probe data in STL format

• PROBE import/exporting probe data as plain text format

• EPS Convert EPS to DXF with pstoedit

  pstoedit -f 'dxf: -mm' file.eps file.dxf

  useful options:

  • -xscale ## -yscale ## (after pstoedit command) to scale by a fixed amount.
  • -mm inside the -f 'dxf: ...' to convert to mm from inches
  • -psarg "-r90x90" to change the dpi resolution from 72(default) to 90

• SVG Convert SVG or EPS with inkscape

  inkscape -E file.eps file.svg

Tutorials

• Simple Clamps
• Hello World! Mill a bowl
• How to create a plugin
• How to contribute a translation to your own language
• PCB 101 First time

Video Tutorials

• Shapeoko 3 bCNC Beginner Tutorial
• Milling with Cyclone PCB Factory and bCNC
• RaspberryPI CNC
• Step-by-step milling of a PCB (Cyclone & bCNC)