Documentation

Step by step guides

3D printer guide

Laser cutter guide

CNC mill guide

There is also a Pick and Place guide.

Firmware documentation

• Basics
• Communication
  • Network
  • USB
  • UART
  • Bluetooth
  • Wifi ( new )
• Configuring Smoothie : Configuration and use, by module
  • List of all configuration options
  • Motion control : All things related to gcode interpolation, motion and acceleration planning, and step generation
    • Arm Solutions : Cartesian, (Linear) Delta, Hbot, Core-XY, Rotary Delta, Morgan Scara
    • 6axis : Using A, B and C axes, for 4, 5 or 6 axis motion.
    • Grbl mode : Using Smoothie in CNC-specific mode instead of 3D printing mode
  • Tools
    • Extruder : Control extruders for 3D printing
    • Temperaturecontrol : Heat and cool things like hotends and heated beds
    • Laser : For cutting
    • Endstops : For homing
    • Spindle : Control your spindle motor with G-code
    • Switch : Quickly create custom G-code ⇆ Input/Output mapping without needing to write a custom module, like to control a fan
    • TemperatureSwitch : Automatically turn/on a device based on a threshold temperature
    • ZProbe : For probing, levelling, and automated calibration
      • PCB milling : For PCB milling
    • Drillingcycles : Canned drilling cycles support
    • Filament-detector : Use an encoder to check filament is pushed correctly
  • Utils
    • Player : Play files from the SD card
    • Currentcontrol : Digitally control your stepper motors current
    • AdvancedMotorDriver : For controlling SPI based stepper motor controllers like DRV8711 and TMC26X
    • Configurator : Manipulate configuration using console commands
    • Kill Button and Play LED : S/W based kill and play activity LED
    • Panel : Drive smoothie directly without a host using monochrome lcd screens and click encoders
    • Smoopi : New drive Smoothie using a color touch screen on rpi
    • on_boot.gcode : Execute G-codes every time the board boots
• Using Smoothie : General firmware use
  • Console Commands
  • Supported G-Codes
  • Stopping Smoothie
  • Software
    • Pronterface
    • Octoprint
    • bCNC
    • Smoopi : New drive Smoothie using a color touch screen on rpi
    • Fusion360

• Troubleshooting : It doesn't work (ノo益o)ノ彡┻━┻ ! ! What to do ∩(︶▽︶)∩.
  • MRI : In the very rare case smoothie code crashes
• Contributing : We need your help !
  • Todo : List of the things that are being worked on in the project.
  • Editing the Wiki : How to edit this documentation and improve it.

More : Windows Drivers, Linux Drivers, Mac Drivers, New Features, Gallery, Smoothieboard Beta Guide

Hardware documentation

Available now : SmoothieBoard, the modular and awesome, smoothie-dedicated CNC controller.

• Smoothieboards : all versions of the Smoothieboard hardware
• Running Smoothie on a Breadboard
• Pinout has diagrams of all pins on the board
• Pin usage has information on the use and capability of all pins
• How to wire describes tutorials, tools and best practices for wiring and cabling work when installing your Smoothieboard in a new machine.

Get a Smoothieboard here

Features

For users

• Powerful ( 120Mhz, 32bit ) micro-controller.
• Easy to use and configure.
• Smooth, jerk-free motion and enabling higher speeds
• Can be used for CNC milling, laser cutting, and 3D printing.
• Opensource/hardware all-included controller board
• SD-Card support for configuration and executing G-code.
• Composite USB Mass Storage + Serial interface to host.
• Free email support (✿◠‿◠)

For hackers

• Modular, event-driven design, allowing to add functionality easily without modifying the core. See the ModuleExample
• Designed to support non-Cartesian machines
• LPC1769 leaves lots of room for additional functionality.
• The mBed functions and additional libraries are available for easy and fast prototyping. But compiles off-line ( using GCC ), not dependent on the mBed online compiler
• Strict process for acceptance of new code, to keep the project at high quality
• Heavily commented code

Developer documentation

• Todo : List of the things that are being worked on in the project. We need your help !
• HowItWorks : Walk-through the inner workings of Smoothie ( °٢° )
• ModuleExample : Basics of working with Modules in Smoothie
• Listofevents : List of all Events you can register for
• Developers-Guide : Information useful to smoothie coders
• LPC1769-pin-usage : Documents all the pins used and which are spare
• DebuggingSmoothie : Using the built-in MRI serial debugger
• Coding-Standards
• Contribution Guidlines
• Eclipse : Using Eclipse IDE to build and debug
• Github : How to submit pull requests for Smoothie
• Third Party Branches : a list of useful branches to smoothie that may be helpful to some but are not included in the main branch
• Smoothie developer IRC forum on IRC in #smoothiedev @ irc.freenode.net
• Logo Proposals
• Current edge build status:

Review