Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

I drove down a to Vectric event many years ago to meet Gary who was demonstrating an Acorn equipped CNC Router with a Rotary table at the event. Within minutes of meeting him I knew that Gary was one of us! For anyone reading this, Gary's contact info is here. https://www.centroidcnc.com/shopbot_gcn...

CNC12 v5.1 RC7 (which is build #17806) went up last night with these fixes and improvements which have also been added to the Release notes today. 50. 452 Ethernet Communication Error message has been inadvertently suppressed and will not display in the CNC12 message box or logs files. Even if the b...

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The Centroid Allin1DC CNC controller kit would allow you to reuse most of the electrics in the cabinet and use a modern PC with the latest CNC12 software and Windows 10 or 11

https://shopcentroidcnc.com/allin1dc-cnc-controller/

Maybe Centroid could find and promote a $200 touch probe. I have a couple of the drewtronic probes and just checked it to my ring gauge to within 0.0005. It's not particularly fragile - i've broken a stylus and dialed it back in. I'd guess they must be a small company because when you call them you...

the latest CNC12 v5.1 has Intel NIC related ethernet software improvements that should eliminate having to go to half duplex with Intel NIC's that have this issue. from the release notes. 56. Improved Ethernet Communications from the PC to the BBG on Acorn which should eliminate having to go to the ...

suntravel wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:38 am Now the box is printing and by the way this 5m USB extension works well with the BOB, also with the first version

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B078MP ... =UTF8&th=1

Uwe

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Beautiful work as usual, Uwe. Soldering all the resistors is the price to pay for the versatility of those open collector outputs. I do agree on how nice it is to work with cartridge style soldering irons. I recently got one for home and it is really nice how quickly it reaches temperature. That wa...

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CNC12 runs on G code not cad data so yes if you are using a cad/cam system you will need a post processor. i would suggest start with Intercon. to get the basics down. then you can move onto the cad/cam and post processor world can your parts be made using Intercon? https://youtu.be/rEY3uKOuPZQ?si=q...