Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

I am moving everything using the centroid PLC (already installed and wired). The original controller was from 1982 so I scrapped everything and started over. (bought the machine as a incomplete conversion project already ripped apart and redid it for centroid) I think I can get a good handle on the ...

@cnckeith, I am (finally) installing the new centroid swing arm software but much like when I installed 12.40 the swing arm tab is blank, same as last time. There is multiple versions of the umbrella changer software however so it looks like I'm probably smarter to just try modifying one of the umbr...

Yes, but air engagement over electric impact gun. Someone installed a old craftsman electric but it works like a charm. I already backed up and downloaded the latest version of cnc12. I can copy paste the i/o code and buttons easy enough. I’m not sure what I should restore vs redo. Currently I have ...

Oh really. I bought this things in 2019 then got busy. The. CNC12 came along. At the time with the CNC 12 software I was told there was no swing arm support, just umbrella. But. Guess I’ll need to do some digging and find that. Makes my life much easier.

Ha. Like many of these problems, the solution is often staring you straight in the face. Maybe. I accidentally named my test code tool_tighten_I instead of tool_tighten_SV. I had the skin event done properly the whole time. I assume it's fine to use a _SV directly as a SET trigger for some memory bi...

I’ll get back to you guys when I get back to this. Days booked to work on this machine this week are turning into emergency calls. I’m pretty sure the first post is it.

A video on making a custom button from zero would be great. But I’ll keep poking at this and update when I have time.

Yes it's just ...a bit confusing the way the manual is laid out. Especially when starting from zero experience coding outside of PLC land. They should put up that second video that promised to explain this in better detail. I'll chip away at this in my spare time and see if I can make some spare tim...

Aha, Skin Event numbers! That is what I am missing. I will do a little more reading but that’s probably the ticket.

@cnckeith I am trying to write my own tool changer software for a swing arm style cnc mill. Or at least get it all working manually and then see how my patience is holding up.

*crickets*

I am stumped on how to actually get a custom button in the VCP to trigger an input in the PLC .src program. The centroid tech support intro to VCP video talks about how they are going to explain this in 'the next video'. Well there is no next video. I have made buttons, installed them in the VCP and...