Difference between revisions of "CNC Bender v12.12"

v12.12 - August 25, 2014

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CNC Processor can control machine lube at a lower level. This enables machine lube to work even when other motion is occurring. These are the changes for machine lube in this version:

• Depending on the style of switch that indicates the lube is complete, lube complete could be configured to either HIGH or LOW. So now this feature can allow a machine lube switch to be active when it is LOW.
  
  
• [image:e-stop.png|100px]] In this version , when the feature is active, and the E-Stop is pressed, the lube is immediately stopped.
  
  
• New messages for the machine lube are posted in the Processor log in the CNC Bender user interface.
  
  

Previous versions of CNC Bender would allow characters in part names that made the part name illegal or caused problems to CNC Bender.

• This issue has been resolved in this version with a keyboard that will make the disallowed character buttons to disappear when in the filename mode.
  
  
• When these characters are pressed on the physical keyboard when this mode is active, then the key presses will be ignored.

The characters filter out are:

• < (less than)
• > (greater than)
•  : (colon)
• " (double quote)
• / (forward slash)
• \ (backslash)
• | (vertical bar or pipe)
•  ? (question mark)
• * (asterisk)
• = (equals sign)

The new [Tube Support Override] processlist command is added to this version.

This command can be set to ENABLE or DISABLE in order to override CNC Processor from handling the tube support automatically.

An example use is to add it to the Home processlist to customize the tube support during homing. In this case, CNC Processor would stop trying to control the tube support automatically, and allow the Home process exclusive control.

[Tube Support Override] enable

[Tube Support Override] disable

The new [Tube Support Position] processlist command is added to this version.

This command can be followed by a linear millimeter value that indicates where the tube support should come up or go down.

This new command will work with the new tube support position PER FEED AXIS SPEED support feature in this version.

When the Feed axis speed changes, then the tube support process can also change per the Tube Support page in the Tool menu. CNC Bender manual page and processlists can change the position at any time to accommodate for different Feed speeds.

[Tube Support Position] 1650.0

This would switch the tube support as the carriage passes 1650.0 millimeters from the home position.

• The Cycle Hold and Master Power ON buttons can now be defined so that LOW means activated.