Spindle Control with CamBam

[draketh]

Hi Everyone,

I have a CNC Router table with a control box running on Mach3, and am using CamBam. Every time when I set the spindle speed in CamBam it outputs the GCode with "M3 5000" for example, which would be to turn on the spindle at 5000 RPM, and then "M5" to turn it off at the end. This is only my second day running it, and I am definitely getting there as far as learning all of this goes.

Anyways, my issue is that the command to turn on the spindle on and off is actually M03 and M05, so every time CamBam generates GCode I am having to manually edit it. Is this something I need to change in CamBam, or is this on the Mach3 end I would need to change it? Ideally I would like to figure out how to make CamBam generate the files with M03 and M05 so I am not having to manually edit the code every time.

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[draketh]

I figured it out, changed M3 to M03 under the default profile in the System Settings Tab, woohoo!

[ger21]

As far as Mach3 is concerned, M3 is the same thing as M03.

You didn't need to change it.

For future reference:

G01 = G1
G02 = G2
M06 = M6

and so on.