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right on! thanks for sharing, nice work on the machine.
foiling is really cool!

and its best to choose manual squaring with axis pairing until you get everything else sorted, then save the auto squaring commissioning for last.

you have no home switches defined in the input definitions menu therefore the home program has no idea what to try to home to. https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_diy/downloads/acorn_documentation/paired_axes_acorn_user_guide.pdf and you are on an old version of cnc12. please download and install v...

sounds good. the tool library in cnc12 is going to get a make over in v5.2 for mill and router

1st stage of this make over will be in v5.18 which will be a router only release.

glbreil wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:09 pm

On a side note, this is my first time using Intercon is is really easy to use. For the lathe, I can’t really think that anything else would be needed for most projects.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/KL88FycMxDj5WmwWA

but it has a UI from 1998 it must be terrible! sarcasm.

good move on the multi vee belt!

Thanks Keith, another general question: I noticed in news letter that version 5.1 is available now. What is the thought on updating? Is it best practice to always stay up to date, or is it more of a “ if it ain’t broke don’t fix it thing”? I understand when something big like the Wizard is coming i...

when you get the machine running the way you like it. use the create report button in the util menu. save the report to to folder on your desktop. name it something like "good working report" then if your config gets messed up or you install a new PC you can use that report on the SAME ver...

depends on your definition of "normal" i guess.

yes on both. - set tool # should have been on the mill VCP as well. fyi..the new tool library i am working on also has it as a function key as well so you don't have to have it on the VCP if you don't want to. - and good idea on the stress test, we will do that! Do you know new CHIPS from swissi ? ...