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Not sure what to say, but it does. Are you using proximity sensors to home the machine upon start up?

Trust me, CNC12 can do everything SB3 could even think of, and then some,,,,,

I'm not sure what you are referring to. I'm not talking about homing the machine.

As far as G31 functionality I would like it to "store" skip position on the fly instead of having to touch and back-off of the part and since the probe input is specified in the parameters you would not need to use the "Pxxx" argument.

dplain wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:39 pmI'm not sure what you are referring to. I'm not talking about homing the machine.

Sorry, that was in reply to EastMemphis's question.

It would be nice to add the ability to run a job from the graphing screen rather than reverting back to the home screen to press 'run'

EastMemphis wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:16 pm It would be nice if when starting up cnc12, the program would remember the coordinates from the previous session. My old Shopbot software did this and it was quite helpful.

the shop bots i've seen didn't have a machine coordinate system, and i think the shop bot after a power cycle just put up the last known DRO position and hoped for the best (did the table move?) and really wasn't 'remembering' anything.
i guess we could add that, but i'm sure the reason we didn't is that it implies the control knows where it is at when it doesn't since there isn't any real homing being used when trying to emulate a shop bot.

fyi...in CNC12 you can suppress any type of homing with parameter 5 = 1 page 284 of mill operator manual. but when you power cycle, the DRO is going to read zeros, so if you 'park' your machine at part zero before shutting down it will 'remember' the coordinates from the previous session.

dplain wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:08 pm These are some software mods that would be awfully nice to have. I don't know if any of these are in the latest version:

Mill/Lathe: Allow incremental/absolute entries in the WCS tables currently only allows absolute entries

Mill/Lathe: Have a "clear all" button on the WCS tables.

after pressing Clear All, CNC12 will pop up a message asking if you are sure. Cancel/Continue.

when in INC mode the cursor will turn green and values entered will be added to existing values.

how about a copy paste button in the WCS menu as well?
hit F6 copy with cursor on the wcs you want to copy, move cursor to new wcs and hit F7 paste and data will transfer.

tblough wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:14 pm Lathe: teach button or set to current position for return point.

will add to all, mill, lathe, router, plasma

dplain wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:08 pm These are some software mods that would be awfully nice to have. I don't know if any of these are in the latest version:


Mill/Lathe: #0 NaN support for G65 variables (no variable explicitly sent will be invalid instead of zero in the macro)

please explain what you are trying to accomplish here with this.

cnckeith wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:36 pm

tblough wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:14 pm Lathe: teach button or set to current position for return point.

will add to all, mill, lathe, router, plasma

return teach.png

Perfect!