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Re: Acorn API

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Re: Acorn API

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tblough wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 7:23 pm Oh My God! It reminds me of the early days of HTML. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should ;-) I am so very glad that you didn't include flashing colors as well!
Lol.. I completely agree, but you would not believe the amount of requests that I have gotten over the years to change the centroid blue screen and yellow letters to some other color. So we built a little color picker and you can change it to whatever color you want now have at it! 😜
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Re: Acorn API

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cnckeith wrote: Sat Nov 19, 2022 2:35 pm
tblough wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 7:23 pm Oh My God! It reminds me of the early days of HTML. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should ;-) I am so very glad that you didn't include flashing colors as well!
Lol.. I completely agree, but you would not believe the amount of requests that I have gotten over the years to change the centroid blue screen and yellow letters to some other color. So we built a little color picker and you can change it to whatever color you want now have at it! 😜
I actually like the blue screen! Real talk... 99.99% of computer-based CNC controls are crimes against ergonomics and good taste, but CNC12 isn't - with the exception of the lower right corner of the VCP for some reason. I am looking forward to evaluating CNC12 V5.0, to see what has been changed.

I use Heidenhain at work, and I really like its layout. Because of this, I considered looking at LinuxCNC for my home machine, but it seems like a dumpster fire and I keep coming back to Acorn/CNC12 to see if you've fixed some of the weird UI issues. Learning about the next generation control is encouraging!

If I have one word of advice for CNC12, please include flute count in the tool library; then also please allow me to display feed per tooth and surface speed when running a program.
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Re: Acorn API

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XYZgnomon wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 10:03 pm

I actually like the blue screen! Real talk... 99.99% of computer-based CNC controls are crimes against ergonomics and good taste, but CNC12 isn't - with the exception of the lower right corner of the VCP for some reason. I am looking forward to evaluating CNC12 V5.0, to see what has been changed.

I use Heidenhain at work, and I really like its layout. Because of this, I considered looking at LinuxCNC for my home machine, but it seems like a dumpster fire and I keep coming back to Acorn/CNC12 to see if you've fixed some of the weird UI issues. Learning about the next generation control is encouraging!

If I have one word of advice for CNC12, please include flute count in the tool library; then also please allow me to display feed per tooth and surface speed when running a program.
XYZ, let us know what you consider "weird UI issues" so we can fix them. :-)
Need support? READ THIS POST first. http://centroidcncforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=1043
All Acorn Documentation is located here: viewtopic.php?f=60&t=3397
Answers to common questions: viewforum.php?f=63
and here viewforum.php?f=61
Gear we use but don't sell. https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_di ... _gear.html
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