How to Disable Dust Dock Movements to use Dust Boot

To use our Dust Boot, or install our ATC Pedestals, we advise disabling the Dust Dock movements. You also do need to remove the ShopSabre Dust Boot from the machine and the Dust Dock arm or you will likely collide the PDX CNC Dust Boot with the Dust Dock!

This is a reversible process, don't worry!

ALL ITEMS BELOW ARE SUGGESTIONS –
YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY AND ALL CHANGES TO YOUR EQUIPMENT.

ShopSabre and WinCNC machines change over time

Scan to see which files look closest to yours. They generally fall into:

• Machines built BEFORE October 2023
• Machines built IN / AFTER October 2023

Machines built IN / AFTER October 2023

To Disable Dust Dock Movements

1. Make sure that no program is running in WinCNC actively
2. Open This PC and navigate to C:/
3. Then open the folder WinCNC
4. Copy and paste the DUSTLOAD.MAC & DUSTUNLOAD.MAC, files to your Desktop (create a new folder called WinCNC Backup) - these are your backup files.
5. Open each file that is inside of the C:/WinCNC folder listed above in Notepad or another text editor.
6. Find the lines similar to below and add square brackets as shown. It should look like below:

DUSTLOAD.MAC

[G53x{ddx}] [move to DustDock position]
[G53z{ddz}] [down to grab DustDock]
[G53x{ddp}] [get DustDock]

DUSTUNLOAD.MAC

[g53x{ddp}y{yfor}] [move to back left of table]
[g53z{ddz}] [move to DustDock Height]
[g53x{ddx}y{yfor}] [move into DustDock]

    7. Save each file.

You might find other file names similar like, unload tool.mac as these are not very well standardized. Any Dust Dock movement that looks similar needs to be commented out with [brackets] as shown above.

 Adding these brackets in RED above will disable the Dust Dock movements.

Machines built BEFORE October 2023

To Disable Dust Dock Movements

1. Make sure that no program is running in WinCNC actively
2. Open This PC and navigate to C:/
3. Then open the folder WinCNC
4. Copy and paste the TC.mac file to somewhere else on your computer that is safe - this is your backup file.
5. Open the TC.mac file in WinCNC in Notepad or another text editor.
6. Find the lines that have comments in brackets with "DustDock." There should be three. The numbers may be slightly different. They should look like below:

g53x-12.148    [move to DustDock Position]
g53z-8.521     [down to grab DustDock]
g53x-5.5       [remove DustDock]

     7.  Revise those three lines to have brackets around the code on the left of each line like so:

[g53x-12.148]    [move to DustDock Position]
[g53z-8.521]     [down to grab DustDock]
[g53x-5.5]       [remove DustDock]

    Adding these brackets in RED above will disable the Dust Dock movements.

     8. Save the TC.mac file.

     9. WinCNC should automatically use that Tool-change file (TC.mac) the next time you tool change. If you'd like to be extra cautious, you can close WinCNC and reopen it.

    10. Open the TU.mac file and add brackets around the three lines that look like this below:

[g53x{ddp}y{yfor}]    [move to back left of table]
[g53z{ddz}]           [move to DustDock Height]
[g53x{ddx}y{yfor}]    [move into DustDock]

    11. Open G37Z file.

    12. Add brackets around the code at the left for lines that look like this:

[g53x{ddp}y{yfor}]    [move to back left of table]
[g53z{ddz}]      [move to DustDock Height]
[g53x{ddx}y{yfor}]     [move into DustDock]

lower down the file:

[g53x{ddx}]   [move to DustDock position]
[g53z{ddz}]    [down to grab DustDock]
[g53x{ddp}]     [remove DustDock]

    12. Save the G37Z file and close it.

    13. WinCNC should auto-update without needing to restart the program.

Do you have any of?

• Laser — LASER.MAC
• Tangential Knife — KNIFE.MAC
• Creasing Wheel — CREASINGWHEEL.MAC

You'll have the same kind of Dust Dock code to add brackets around in each of those files.

 Adding these brackets in RED above will disable the Dust Dock movements.

AS OF 07 Mar 2024 – ALL REPORTED ISSUES WITH DUST DOCK MOVEMENTS ARE RESOLVED.

If you don't plan to use it, just remove the Dust Dock arm for the safest operation.

Do not edit any other aspects of the WINCNC files unless you feel confident in those changes.

Re-enable the ShopSabre Dust Dock Movements

Simply remove the RED [brackets] we added above and save the TC.mac and TU.mac and G37Z files.

We DO NOT advise using the Dust Dock movements with the PDX CNC Dust Boot or the ShopSabre Dust Boot loaded in the Dust Dock.

If you have the Dust Dock, your TC.mac file should look similar to this: