Manual Control tab — RoboCam 3.1 Docs

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What's here

Home All Axes / Disable Steppers (M18).
XY/Z jog pad with preset or custom step size.
Go-To by absolute coordinate.
Manual Laser ON/OFF toggle.
Raw G-code sender with a scrolling response log, for anything not exposed by a dedicated control.

Why this tab exists in the flow

It's not part of the Calibration → Experiment happy path, but it's where you go when something needs correcting outside a run: initial homing after power-on, recovering from an e-stop or a stall, or manually checking the laser wiring before trusting it inside an experiment's Pre/ON/Post phases.

Relative jogging is gated on homed state, same as starting an experiment — the printer's reported position can't be trusted for a relative move until it's been homed at least once.