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!



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


To Disable Dust Dock Movements

This is a reversible process, don't worry!

  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 toolchange. 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]

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


AS OF 9 SEP 2022 – 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 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: