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Well that was a little painful, as the wizard overwrote previous wizard settings when I wasn't looking. But I seem to have got there in the end. One thing I can't find either in CNC12 itself or the release notes is where to find the option to enable or disable the 4th axis. Perhaps it was removed d...

Well that was a little painful, as the wizard overwrote previous wizard settings when I wasn't looking. But I seem to have got there in the end. One thing I can't find either in CNC12 itself or the release notes is where to find the option to enable or disable the 4th axis. Perhaps it was removed du...

Are we always going to have to make our PCs think they are US region and keyboard? Those of us who are based elsewhere and also use the PC for CAD and CAM won't find this very convenient.

Would there be any issue arising if we revert settings back to normal after installation?

There does seem to be a tiny amount of retract - eg at 1:20 in the video. Barely discernible but it's there. But it's a long way short of 10mm.

If you can post the code that's generated, perhaps it might be more obvious what's happening.

The simplest way is to upload to Youtube and link to it from here. It's pretty quick and easy.

Perhaps you could post the code that is generated?

Be aware that Uwe is paying for the "extensions" that cost several times the licence price. For those of us without the appetite for such an expense, we are stuck with 3+1 operation, which the std Centroid post processor supports fine. 3+1 allows indexable 4th axis work ie move the rotary ...

Be aware that if those wires are going to be seeing movement as the table moves, they need to be flexible. Cat 6 cable may fatigue fairly quickly and fail weeks or months down the road.

TBH, I'd be pleasantly surprised if you have only 14um backlash on the X axis, looking at the machine construction. If you approach a gauge block or ring gauge with a DTI from opposite directions, then subtract the gauge width and DTI probe tip width, you should get zero difference. That will likely...

I use the "spindle stopped" signal in conjunction with the spindle top switch to enable the drawbar. That way it can only operate when the spindle is fully retracted and is stationary.

Seems to require the PP to be edited: // fixed settings var firstFeedParameter = 100; var gotSecondarySpindle = true; var gotTailStock = true; // changed EME 25/3/2023 [/b] (This tells the PP that you have a tailstock) .... function getCode(code) { switch (code) { // case "PART_CATCHER_ON"...