Thanks for the reply Chris. I found a plug in for Notepad++ that lets me compare the original PLC before and after the changes were made to make the turret work. It highlights the changes. Some are straight forward some are in blocks and a little confusing.
My question is a lot of the edits are in areas marked as do not modify. Is it ok to modify these areas since I will be using a custom PLC? I will be watching the tutorial videos shortly but knowing the answer to my PLC question would help me understand things. I'm thinking I can figure out what changed between the first 2 files and then make those changes to the version 4.80 to make things work.
Acorn CNC12 v4.80 has been released. (8-12-22)
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Re: Acorn CNC12 v4.80 has been released. (8-12-22)
Acorn CNC12 v4.82 Mill, Lathe, Router, Plasma release candidate is now available for download.
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Centroid Acorn CNC12 v4.82 Release Notes. Mill, Lathe, Router, Plasma 11-30-22
1.) Mill, Lathe, Router, Plasma: Fixed a rare intermittent file management bug that appears in some systems but not others. This solves the ”(OPEN) Error saving offset library” and ”(OPEN) Error saving tool library” error message issue.
2.) Plasma: Added Plasma oscilloscope plot button in Utility menu in CNC12 for opening the plot app inside of CNC12. Note the Centroid “Plot” program captures Actual Voltage, Position, Velocity for plasma machine performance analysis.
3.) Plasma: Restart mode improvements. Restart now supports M102 (Repeat) and Modified Feedrate by %
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- Connecting radius to any event
5.) Plasma: Hypertherm Sync Plasma Material Profiles added to plasma resources folder.
6.) Fixed instance when Auto squaring fields are greyed out on load (bug fix)
7.) Skinning applications close before cnc12 turns off pc avoids windows error message about memory.
8.) Fixed the wizard not creating a correct homing file when the user is using limit switches
9.) Router/Mill: Added new Wizard menu/macros for writing laser offset data to parameters using parameters 560 and 561
10.) Router: Added Laser on/off and LASER Zero Check VCP buttons on stock Router VCP layout
11.) Plasma: Profile manager and Plasma Intercon Color Picker hex values can now be entered directly in the color picker dialog
12.) Plasma: Added capture on/off button in Utility menu in Plasma CNC12 for turning off or on capturing a plot for debugging as a convenience.
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Centroid Acorn CNC12 v4.82 Release Notes. Mill, Lathe, Router, Plasma 11-30-22
1.) Mill, Lathe, Router, Plasma: Fixed a rare intermittent file management bug that appears in some systems but not others. This solves the ”(OPEN) Error saving offset library” and ”(OPEN) Error saving tool library” error message issue.
2.) Plasma: Added Plasma oscilloscope plot button in Utility menu in CNC12 for opening the plot app inside of CNC12. Note the Centroid “Plot” program captures Actual Voltage, Position, Velocity for plasma machine performance analysis.
3.) Plasma: Restart mode improvements. Restart now supports M102 (Repeat) and Modified Feedrate by %
4.) Plasma: Plasma Intercon additions and improvements
- Profile Feedrate Override Percentage added to events
- DXF and SVG events now have cut direction
- Canned cycles and kerf offset values are now modal
- Clicking/Double clicking event will save currently edited event
- Improved dxf/svg import
- Color Picker dialog loads with hex code and color selected
- Error catching for circular and rectangle frames
- Subprograms update more consistently
- F8 – Graph added to main screen
- F8 – Graph reworked
- Graph Preview works with collapsed groups
- Fixed an issue with 3-point arcs
- Fixed a graphical issue with rapids
- Improved the Teach mode (tracing) window
- Teach Mode (Tracing) now supports use of cross hair Laser to teach in endpoints for lines and arcs
- Connecting radius to any event
5.) Plasma: Hypertherm Sync Plasma Material Profiles added to plasma resources folder.
6.) Fixed instance when Auto squaring fields are greyed out on load (bug fix)
7.) Skinning applications close before cnc12 turns off pc avoids windows error message about memory.
8.) Fixed the wizard not creating a correct homing file when the user is using limit switches
9.) Router/Mill: Added new Wizard menu/macros for writing laser offset data to parameters using parameters 560 and 561
10.) Router: Added Laser on/off and LASER Zero Check VCP buttons on stock Router VCP layout
11.) Plasma: Profile manager and Plasma Intercon Color Picker hex values can now be entered directly in the color picker dialog
12.) Plasma: Added capture on/off button in Utility menu in Plasma CNC12 for turning off or on capturing a plot for debugging as a convenience.
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Re: Acorn CNC12 v4.80 has been released. (8-12-22)
4.82 up and running on my mill, thanks for the fast updates, this is really outstanding.
I investigated about the cluttered Offset screen.
Usaually i setup my tools before i run a program, there is no problem.
If a program is loaded part of the gcode from the probing macro comes on the screen after the tool is measured with TT.
If I save it will not happen with the next tools. It saves the offset correctly, only looks not so clean.
It will also not happen if I measure tools without a program loaded.
Fresh report and screenshots
Uwe
I investigated about the cluttered Offset screen.
Usaually i setup my tools before i run a program, there is no problem.
If a program is loaded part of the gcode from the probing macro comes on the screen after the tool is measured with TT.
If I save it will not happen with the next tools. It saves the offset correctly, only looks not so clean.
It will also not happen if I measure tools without a program loaded.
Fresh report and screenshots
Uwe
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Re: Acorn CNC12 v4.80 has been released. (8-12-22)
Thanks for reporting that. We'll fix it up.
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Re: Acorn CNC12 v4.80 has been released. (8-12-22)
v4.82 RC2 has been posted just now. same download link to the zip file.suntravel wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:33 pm 4.82 up and running on my mill, thanks for the fast updates, this is really outstanding.
I investigated about the cluttered Offset screen.
Usaually i setup my tools before i run a program, there is no problem.
If a program is loaded part of the gcode from the probing macro comes on the screen after the tool is measured with TT.
If I save it will not happen with the next tools. It saves the offset correctly, only looks not so clean.
It will also not happen if I measure tools without a program loaded.
Fresh report and screenshots
Uwe
https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_di ... taller.zip
the new zip file extracts to centroid_acorn_cnc12_v4.82_installer_RC2.exe
Please let me know if this one fixes the GUI overlap issue noted above.
thanks, k
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Re: Acorn CNC12 v4.80 has been released. (8-12-22)
Hi Keith,
this issue is solved, perfect. Thank you.
Uwe
this issue is solved, perfect. Thank you.
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Re: Acorn CNC12 v4.80 has been released. (8-12-22)
thanks for reporting back!
should have a v4.82 RC3 out with RTG DRO decimal place 1,2,3 soon as well.
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Re: Acorn CNC12 v4.80 has been released. (8-12-22)
RC3 with the RTG DRO decimal place oversight fix has been uploaded just now. same download link as above.
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Re: Acorn CNC12 v4.80 has been released. (8-12-22)
The area's marked as "do not modify" are area's the Wizard modifies. You can copy/edit these area's, but the wizard will overwrite them if it compiles the changes. Also you may run into some issues with undefined variables depending on what was changed, If you remove an Input for example, the wizard makes that input a memory bit to keep the PLC compile-able. If you edit it, you must perform this operation your self, in addition some Inputs/outputs get SET when not used to allow functions to work without it, further complicating it a little.Upnorth wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 6:42 pm Thanks for the reply Chris. I found a plug in for Notepad++ that lets me compare the original PLC before and after the changes were made to make the turret work. It highlights the changes. Some are straight forward some are in blocks and a little confusing.
My question is a lot of the edits are in areas marked as do not modify. Is it ok to modify these areas since I will be using a custom PLC? I will be watching the tutorial videos shortly but knowing the answer to my PLC question would help me understand things. I'm thinking I can figure out what changed between the first 2 files and then make those changes to the version 4.80 to make things work.
If you want to give updating the changes your self, typically i would copy over the added changes for your custom plc over to the new .src file (only what is needed). Typically i always keep these outside of the "Do not modify" area's. Then i will use the wizard to setup the rest of the built in I/O as it was before and let it compile the "modified" PLC for me and let it do its thing as well. Just ensure the .src file is named acorn_lathe_plc.src for example in the main directory as it is stock. Otherwise, wizard will grab from the "template" and blow away all changes then.
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Re: Acorn CNC12 v4.80 has been released. (8-12-22)
Fyi... An updated PLC programming manual was posted yesterday.Allin1Chris wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 3:13 pmThe area's marked as "do not modify" are area's the Wizard modifies. You can copy/edit these area's, but the wizard will overwrite them if it compiles the changes. Also you may run into some issues with undefined variables depending on what was changed, If you remove an Input for example, the wizard makes that input a memory bit to keep the PLC compile-able. If you edit it, you must perform this operation your self, in addition some Inputs/outputs get SET when not used to allow functions to work without it, further complicating it a little.Upnorth wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 6:42 pm Thanks for the reply Chris. I found a plug in for Notepad++ that lets me compare the original PLC before and after the changes were made to make the turret work. It highlights the changes. Some are straight forward some are in blocks and a little confusing.
My question is a lot of the edits are in areas marked as do not modify. Is it ok to modify these areas since I will be using a custom PLC? I will be watching the tutorial videos shortly but knowing the answer to my PLC question would help me understand things. I'm thinking I can figure out what changed between the first 2 files and then make those changes to the version 4.80 to make things work.
If you want to give updating the changes your self, typically i would copy over the added changes for your custom plc over to the new .src file (only what is needed). Typically i always keep these outside of the "Do not modify" area's. Then i will use the wizard to setup the rest of the built in I/O as it was before and let it compile the "modified" PLC for me and let it do its thing as well. Just ensure the .src file is named acorn_lathe_plc.src for example in the main directory as it is stock. Otherwise, wizard will grab from the "template" and blow away all changes then.
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