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slodat wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:19 am I hope the next version doesn’t take away the ability to use the db25 step/direction with the screw terminal enable signal.

cnckeith wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:58 pm

slodat wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:19 am I hope the next version doesn’t take away the ability to use the db25 step/direction with the screw terminal enable signal.

No plans to do that

firechief wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:47 pm I have updated to the 4.14. I need to add two inputs that are not listed in the pick list,(Pause and Resume). I have them tied to input 4 and 6 on the Acorn board. From the Alt i screen they are working as they should. How do I get Centroid to get them to pause and resume the machine?

Tim

Crosshatch wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:26 pm Out of curiosity, can you restore your old settings by using a "Report" from the older version or is it mandatory to do the Wizard setup?

I'm just curious about all my tool-offsets etc.

Regards,

Jason

swissi wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2019 5:23 pm For the benefit of the Beginners and Newbies I have to insist that my method to setup a Metric systems is definitely the much better way to do it and here is exactly why. So if you are a Beginner/Newbie, read this and make up your own opinion:

As a Newbie, you don't know what a good value is for some of the parameters in the Wizard and you might not even know what some of the parameters are used for. So in that case, you just accept the default value that's being presented by the Wizard. Now let's have a look at these parameters. When you launch the Wizard right after installing CNC12, you will get the following screens:


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All of the default parameter values are for an Imperial system. Now when you switch from Imperial to Metric in the Wizard, all these default values stay the same and they do not make sense for Metric systems as you can see from this screen shot:

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Some of these parameters are 25 times to small for a Metric system. As an example, your x1 Jog Increment is now set to 0.000787mm. Also the recovery distance for your probe is now 0.05mm and the slow probing rate is 3mm/min which is way to small. So if you are going to accept default values for some of the parameters, you might end up with parameter values that are not suitable for a Metric system.

If you are going to switch CNC12 to Metric before launching the Wizard, you will get default parameter values in the Wizard that make sense for a Metric system as you can see from these screen shots:

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As you can see, these default parameter values now make sense for Metric systems.

This is Centroid's product and they have the right to suggest what they think is the best way to install their product. I gave you all the facts above and that should be enough for you to make your own decision what's the better way for you.

-swissi