Basics For CNC Beginners: gSender

The mothership of CNC interface software, in this episode we take you on a personal tour of Sienci Labs' easy to use, yet incredibly powerful software. Come along and learn about all the features gSender has to offer to run any CNC job you can create.

Know the Beginners Kit

Know the new AutoZero Touch Plate

Know the Starter End Mill Set

Know the Sign Makers End Mill Set

Know the 3D Carver End Mill Set

Know the Machinists End Mill Set

Know the LongMill MK2

• Resources

Long Mill Resources Page I Sienci Labs

// FEATURED TOOLS & SOFTWARES

•Softwares
gSender | Sienci Labs

Vectric V-Carve Pro V11

Vectric V-Carve Desktop V11

• LongMill Add-ons

Dust Shoe I Sienci Labs

TouchPlate I Sienci Labs

Checklist Poster

// PROJECT IDEAS

// JOIN US

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#siencilabs #longmill #cnc #milling #basicsforbeginners #gsender #series #educational #beginners #guide

[kevinphilpott]

Thank you for doing videos, you are a great source of information. I love it when I discover things I had no idea I was missing out on. Please keep up the awesome work!

[TinkerTechRC]

Is it possible to wire that fancy probe into the fox alien XE PRO, perhaps a how to wire it in video?? :) Gonna install Gsender and try it now!! Thank You! love the vids.

[archetypalMaker]

Nice work, I would also like to know more about the workspaces and how they are used and also how to use the inductive sensors, thanks a lot!

[southernjoes]

Quick Question: My coordinate DRO's are locked, how do I unlock them? Nice video are you going to do one for the ALT Mill, SLB and new version?

[Clownmeati]

Thank you for all the time you must spend to share so much information. I am going to change over to gsender for my genmitsu 4040pro because i dont like candle.. Also.one of my older (ancient) larger machines died and i bought an electrinics and motor kit from amazon but the decided the table wasnt worth the effort to rebuild... So now im wondering where i can find a cnc without the stuff i already have... I see a couple parts for sale not as a kit but im not sophisticated enough to design and figure out all the parts.. Im looking for 36"x36" or 36"x48" max. Does anyone sell just the hardware without the motors and electronics?

[yougottoseethis]

Great videos! Perfectly easy to understand. Keep it up!

[msweet]

Very nice informative video! Question, what if you wanted the machine/carve to start from the center of the workpiece rather than the lower left?

[sabi]

I like your CNC controller, but I use ESP32 for the control board, can I use this controller? I have used it but the firmware version is not detected by the system

[stuartsherman]

Very helpful video. Will gsender work on a genmitsu 4030 v2 cnc? Any light you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

[petermorello]

I really like the gsender layout and it looks very user friendly. My question is, I have a Xulifeng Mach3 motion card in my controller of my CNC. When I plug my computer in with the gsender software, it doesn’t recognize it. Do I need to load a different DLL file or am I doing something wrong?

[TheDeerInn]

My machine is a Shark Pro from 2009. It doesn't have a probe connector port. Any idea if I can just connect to the z axis for probing or just purchase a new board and program it? I downloaded gSender and sounds perfect for what I have been looking to use.

[donaldearls]

I have to figure out what is happening with mine. X and Y set fine, but my Z is always about 1/32" above the material. I have just been using the paper method to set Z. I really need the touch plate to work for me. What am I doing wrong?

[SenniMusic]

I am trying to use this software with my cnc xprov5. the software do not connect to my cnc. It recognizes that I have two firmwares, but I cannot click on the arrow appearing in the drop down menu. It works with CNC3D Commander. I would like to use this sofware but I wonder it is only working with your machines.... Is it possible to use it with CNC xPRO V5?

[PaulSchuster-yjzb]

I need to know when using Vcarve Pro, are the gcode files the tool path files? When loading a multiple tool path job, do I use the vcarve, crv file or the toolpath file(S). I can't find any tool path files on my windows drive when I go back to gsender to load file. You skipped this procedure.

[adams]

I keep tripping height proximity on Millwright after I set zero's. Job will not run, how do I fix proximity of height so machine does not trip it every time. I'm working on a tall piece which is 3 inches but my machine has a 4 inch clearance

[nwbstplyr]

hey i was hoping to use this for my DIY set up to test stuff. im planning to connect directly my components like the motors to the drivers then to my raspberry pi 4. will i still get to use this software? or i would still need to do some configuration on this? thanks! :D

[zostritch]

When installing this, does the cnc have to be hooked up and turned on for installation to complete?

[joeking]

Before I watch another 18 min video, does this yet have auto level / heightmap like Candle and bCNC, as without that feature I have to move on. I spotted gSender way back when it first appeared and liked it alot, and have been dropping back every now and then to see if this feature has been added, but with all the myriad of changes/updates listed it could be easy to miss which is why I am asking here. If this feature is available I could become a convert, but without it I have to pass as for my use it is essential. If it'is not available now, is there any intention of adding this feature, and if yes any rough ides of the time span, but if no, would be really grateful to know that to save wasting your time in the future. Kind Rgds. - EDIT: I may have to make an apology here, I feel that you 'may not' be the gSender creators, sorry if that is so, but I'll will leave the comment here in case you may be able to throw some light on the above.

[ramijali]

But one think I can't joging. how can I running my motor. Please im helpless

[lucemiserlohn]

Hey Sienci Labs people, I hope you'll actually read this...
gSender seems to be a very nice piece of software, and I'd love to use it, really -
but for me, it lacks one important feature: camera based probing.
Ideally, it work work much the same way as in bCNC, which has a number of other problems, but it has the camera work down.
So, what would be required is: Display camera image, overlay reference crosshair (and adjust image scaling to match a given diameter), and switch between tool and camera with a fixed xy-offset (i.e., position with the camera crosshair, switch over to tool, and the tool is positioned exactly over the point the camera pointed at before - and vice versa).
That would be great and enable me to completely switch over to gSender for my CNC work.
(In theory I could fork and write the changes myself, BUT I am no web developer and unfamiliar with Electron et. al., so it would take me ages just to wrap my head around your codebase - infeasible, sorry, that's why I'm politely asking you guys for it)