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I didn't see it in the docs, didn't think to look in real life.

thanks very much.

I use vacuum table to hold down large sheets while I mill them. Right now I have a DP2-40E Vacuum sensor mounted on the wall that triggers a visual alarm when I loose vacuum. What I would like to do, is trigger a tool height check event (I want to pause and lift the tool so I can check and see why I...

Just finishing up a complete retrofit of a 7x14 gantry router. It was using a ancient version of flashcut and I was worried that it was just going to die at some point. We have a number of machines with various controllers from Hass to Tormach and even some heavily customized Mach3 thrown in there. ...

It prompts for a password, is this in the manual?

Attached is a report from my system. I'll try setting those options and see what the difference is. Really appreciate the help.

My feedrate override is set at 100%, is that the setting you recommend? Does the Acorn software use a GPU? My CPU (i5-2400) has a single thread benchmark of 1500 but I don't have a graphics card. I can literally watch the line count increment one by one. This program is pretty typical of what I woul...

In the being completely honest category, I am not sure where the feedrate override is. Am fluent in powerpath, mach3 and 4 and linuxcnc, but not Centroid yet... However, 15 seconds is perfectly reasonable and I am happy that it can be that fast once I get everything set correctly. Having a learning ...

I have a reasonably fast PC but a moderately complicated toolpath takes about 30 minutes to draw. Is this normal? To be honest, I haven't done much besides setup windows 10 and load the software and tried to view a toolpath.

Happy to attach the gcode...