Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

I found the link to the BETA download but when I get there its just the regular version. Is this a tease?

With the Centroid software you can program "smoothing" profiles to slow the machine at corners. This is done automatically for you once programmed. Manually slowing the machine down for each corner seems like a pain in the you know what? :shock: I meant that is what we do just because it ...

Homing has never been an issue. Machine has hard stops and you are not going to put material past the machine boundaries. My machine is 6x12 and homing takes along time. Everyone is fee to do it there own way. For me, I think it's just an extra step. Auto Z based on resistance is the poor man's way ...

i also like to add a table with direct drive motors like the forest cutting thin steel like 16 guage using a hypertherm pm85 45 amp requires 350 ipm speeds with good acceleration and no velocity slow down to get good cuts . any slowing down causes changes in cut voltage . then the thc unit wants to...

I have had some time to use a different plasma table than my one set up with an acorn. For not being designed for plasma cutting the centroid software does a good job. That being said there are a few features I would love to see show up on centroid software in the future. 1. A quick cut feature. Sim...

What ever works is all that matters. Yes, but I found something specific that does in fact work and work well. I tried a lot of different software before arriving at HIDmacros. Many seemed, buggy or did not have the features needed. Wireless MPG is the way to go in my opinion. :D I'm sure that MPGs...

I too didn't want to shell out for the xkeys and I don't think a MPG really fits my needs. So I started to experiment with a simple wireless keypad. I just bought the cheapest wireless number pad on Amazon, printed some labels and glued them on. I tried different key remapping software but eventuall...

What thc are you using? Not currently running a thc. Didn't have one when the machine ran mach3 so it didn't really seem necessary. Maybe upgrade to one in the future but 15 years into this table and doing just fine without. Most cutting is plate rather than sheet metal so warping and tip-ups haven...

Successfully using Centroid Acorn on a plasma table for almost two years. It's good now... It will only get better.

I agree with carbuthn, It would be great if the program would give a warning if you try to start with low air pressure rather that have it fail because the arc will not start. I read through the PDF and I am real excited by what I see. I appreciate the inclusion of manual controls. Not everyone in t...