12-4-24 v5.22 has been released, beta period for v5.22 is over.

[Ken Rychlik]

I have r3 beta getting a cnc going with yaskawa sigma 2 servo's on a Router. I have the enab lines going to the header along with the st dir using 2.2k resistors. My question is, after booting everything up the drives are not in run mode until I hit an arrow button to move something. Is this normal? I would think when the software is up, the drives should be enabled.

I have not set up homing yet, as it is just getting moving, but when I hit cycle start to home without moving, they lock in and are set to run on the drives.

[suntravel]

Drives are enabled only after the first move, though I prefer they were if Acon board is powered up and stay enabled if only the software is cyceld

Right now it is only save to rehome after a Software restart or do not use enable so the drivers are always enabled.

Uwe

[Ken Rychlik]

Thanks. Do you know if it that way in all versions? I will probably hot wire it enabled with the acorn powered up.

[suntravel]

Thanks. Do you know if it that way in all versions? I will probably hot wire it enabled with the acorn powered up.

Yep in all versions, I never noticed it, because in my default workflow I never need to recycle the software...

Uwe

[ShawnM]

Yes, this is normal and it's been this way as long as I can remember. You can press F3 for MDI and the drives will enable immediately and the z axis brake, if equipped, will release. Remember the machine isn't homed at this point and can crash. Or simply start to jog and they enable as you already found out.

If you want them enabled all the time, which I'm not sure why you'd do this, you could wire them up to the no fault out circuit so they are enabled as long as there's "no fault".

[Ken Rychlik]

I sometimes close out to work on a design and make another toolpath, if it's not left open for me to get to it. After I'm done with it the machine will be sold. Selling the machine to a new user creates enough issues down the road for me to want to give opportunity of more issues and phone calls.

I guess it wasn't beta related, but I was using the beta, so I asked here.

Thanks

[RogDC]

While installing and testing this evening I noticed that the Graph (F8) button is not visible until after the machine is homed.

I did load the job before homing and Graph Job button was not available until after the machine homed.

This may be as intended, just thought I would mention it JIC.

Job loaded before machine home

Graph Job button after machine home

[suntravel]

Two other minor bugs in the Acorn6 lathe software:

set part and axis zero are with a G65 call to C:/cncm/... folder

There are also some macros in the system folder only mill related.

Pls check this for lathe on the other systems also.

Uwe

[Allin1Chris]

Two other minor bugs in the Acorn6 lathe software:

set part and axis zero are with a G65 call to C:/cncm/... folder

There are also some macros in the system folder only mill related.

Pls check this for lathe on the other systems also.

Uwe

Thanks for finding these, the cncm call should be corrected in the next revision of software for all lathe installs.

[cnckeith]

v5.22 has been released.
https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_di ... loads.html

release notes.

- Fixed the CNC12 installer overwriting the WCS file and other files from an existing installation for Oak/Allin1DC/Mpu11 updates.

- Fixed bug caused by a rounding error that made slaved axes momentarily change direction that only revealed itself when trying to send a signal to Teknic Clearpaths to hard stop home all three axes at a time.

- Fixed Pages in the wizard too long to fit on a single page when printing will now be scaled down rather than cut off

- Fixed bug where G10 PXXX RYYY would write an incorrect value if a G20/21 command was issued contrary to the default units of measure for cnc12.
This is evident in the series of commands:
G21
G10 P700 R4
G65 "C:\cncm\ncfiles\tool#9700.cnc"
which would result in tool3.cnc being called rather than the requested tool4.cnc

- Fixed bug where Plasma Intercon wouldn't launch due to missing files

- Fixed bug where Single Blocks would not set correctly out of the run menu. Also fixed functionality to match that of v5.10 when interacting between CNC12 and PLC in regards to the run menu removing F5 as an option when single block mode activated via the plc

- Fixed bug where API call Tool.GetHeightOffsetAmount would always return H1 rather than the active H value if no H value was specified

- Added API calls State.GetConsoleType and State.SetConsoleType

- Added the ability to collapse the navigation pane of the wizard. Also fixed related minimum size of the wizard to scale to a 4:3 operators LCD screen better

- Fixed bug where Lathe would not save or load smoothing presets.

- Fixed bug where jogging beyond travel limits after homing via M26 in MDI was possible

- Added some protection for startupOptions.ini to ignore blank lines and lines containing excess null terminators and other 'garbage'

- Fixed run menu resetting the part count upon entry. Part count will change upon interaction with the part count input box

- Acorn Lathe C-Axis will now require an Ultimate license. Existing Acorn C axis users are grandfathered in. email diysales@centroidcnc.com for details.

- Fixed bug where cycle start wouldn't work in the run-resume menu if P400 was set to 0

- Fixed bug where homing the THC axis (Z-Axis) via switches before homing any other axis, canceling out of the homing program, and rerunning the homing program resulted in an immediate axis travel limit exceeded error

- Added diagonal buttons to the keyboard jogging legend

- Fixed bug where park.mac would install over a custom park.mac (and other similar problems)

- Added classes VB_[class] to the CentroidAPI to resolve ambiguity between the class and class instance that Visual Basic can't overcome.

- Added bit 4 (add 16) to parameter 113 to hide the Wizard button from the Utility menu (and all other buttons that may launch the wizard)

- Fixed bug where Z Clearance Height in Router Touch Plate menu would not convert between imperial and metric when changing units

- Updated Keyboard Jog Panel legend for Lathe

- Fixed bug where keyboard jogging is enabled, a command is entered and run in MDI, MDI is exited, and the keyboard jog panel is moved resulting in keyboard jogging no longer functioning

- Fixed bug where 410 Scale error would appear upon restart of software

- Lathe G99 moves without an encoder setup will no issue a warning message. To reduce tech support related to user trying to command lathe moves without an encoder installed and configured.

- Lathe parameter 48 is defaulted to 1 to make G98 the default mode. To reduce tech support related to user trying to command lathe moves without an encoder installed and configured.

- Fixed some interactions between Keyboard Jogging and the MDI menu so keyboard jogging works better.

- Fixed omission of the Plasma Scribe menu in the wizard

- Fixed bug where the API call Job.CancelExecution would not cancel a job while using the emulator/offline intercon. This call will issue the "Escape" key for the emulator/offline intercon install.

- Fixed bug where M221 timer would end other M2XX messages if the timer expired after the message elapsed

- Fixed a Touch Plate dialog box message bug.

- Added “Laser Deploy” as an output selection in the Wizard.


known bugs.
- F6/ATC initialize button functionality when using swing-arm tool changers with Oak

In process investigations
- non Acorn P85 door safety interlock functionality testing is on going