Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

Can you install the plugin without having your machine setup to run cnc12 e.g. I want to run it on a computer not "tuned" to run a machine It's a Notepad++ plugin. Other than being able to parse GCode it has no connection to actual machining. If you can run Notepad++ then you can use the ...

Historically a long time user of Notepad++, and yep, did it manually. It works fine. The color coding for the different axes and parameters is nice. Like for other NPP uses.

Hi, There is a problem with the 1.30 PC Tuner installing the NCnetic plugin for Notepad++. The PC Tuner only looks for a Notepad++ installation on the C: drive. If Notepad++ is installed on a different drive, the PC Tuner is unable to located the installation. Otherwise the NCnetic plugin is very ni...

Oh crap.... I'm just finishing prettying up the mill conversion and now this comes out!!

Ya could have warned us three years ago when I started on the mill!!

It is my understanding that CAD/CAM customers work with their CAD product providers/resellers (Solidworks, Fusion360, Solid Edge)to provide PP for the CAM portion of their products. If you're a hobbyist, be glad that there are free/minimal cost tools of commercial quality to support our interests. C...

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Also, if you have some software skills, there are free tools to create/modify a pp. And you do have the g code from intercon to check your output. And once again, Hawk Ridge Systems wrote a Centroid Mill pp for me at no charge. It works great.

Hawk Ridge produced a Centroid MIll PP for me at no cost. It's a free down load on their web site. If you ask, they may produce one for a lathe. CNCKeith, please correct me here, but using a Fanuc PP will work with Centroid. Solidworks does have both a 2 axis and 4 axis PP for Fanuc. Also, Solidwork...

CNC Keith has told me that the fanuc pp work with centroid. Hawkridge systems made a free centroid mill pp, only 3 axis, that is on their website for free. You might want to ask them if they will generate one for a centroid driven lathe

Solidworks CAM which is basically CAMWorks. It's included with the Veteran's version of SW.