CNCBrain users

[kmcwhq]

Hello Bruce!

Very good to hear from you!

Thank you very much for the update, and hope the anti-gravity option along WITH the brain will be clicking along in the not-too-far-off future....



Dan k

PS.....IS there an area 52??

[dirtdiggler]

Excuse me while I put my foot in my mouth!

Bruce, thanks for the update, I think it will make a lot of people here happy to know that the gears are turning on the CNC Brain.

[Switcher]

How about I chime in here as well

Next, there is a lot of hostility by people that don't seem to be directly involved.

Looks like the competition is getting nervous (HA!).


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[pzzamakr1980]

There are gears. Oh fudge, I think I may have bought the wrong thing.

[brccrb]

Hello everyone!

Quick update on the CNC Brain.

1) New jog mechanism in place. Know this was a pain. New interface uses spin dials. This really makes jogging soooo much easier (especially with an el'cheapo touch screen).




**sorry Mike, picture buttons were great, but dial beat em. If you have another idea to merge them, shout!

2) The CNC Brain matrix (in the chip) has a new jog interface to provide direct jogging. This is also exposed through the SDK.

This is support for internal and external jog dials (pendant).

3) Running through the configurations everyone sent that was having problems. Hope to be through all the configurations this week.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

s/Bruce

[Switcher]

Looks good Bruce.

I have some vb.net 2003 code that I found on the net a few years back, looks similar in function, are those bitmaps on the dials?


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[brccrb]

**Switcher,

The base dial is an image generated in Rhinocerous/Flamingo (simply a scaled picture box). The "dimple" is code generated along with the rotating text.

The image is switched during click to a green LED ring underneath, which is also a rendered image.

Didn't grab it from anywere, just built the base control, then inherited it into a percentageSpinner (for feedrate/spindle speed) and the jog control.

s/Bruce

[Dougal]

Almost user here.

Got an X2 conversion which I'm still trying to get mobile. I'm new to the whole CNC game so the learning curve is steep.

Currently got some teething problems and instability, the goal for now is to get the thing moving so I can learn some G-code.
Closed loop will come later.

[cncor]

People in this forum convinced me the CNC Brain is great and almost ready.
So I asked a friend to get one for me. I liked the idea of suporting this great develoment, thinking I could use it for my new machine I was building.
This was not last week. This was not last month. This was more than half a year ago
At that time the software release was 1.0.6.3 and the next version was soon to be released. Well.... half a year later .... no new software
My machine is ready, but I can not use CNC Brain, because it is not ready.

I really feel I want to return it. I'm so dissapointed!
Can somebody convince me that it was a good thing to support CNC Brain?
Can somebody tell me when I can really use it?

[dirtdiggler]

Cncor,

That sucks dude. I almost went for the brain when it first came out but held back at the last minute and bought a C23 BOB. If it makes you feel any better I'm still trying to get my machine up and running after 3 months of building, either way it's a long process.

I do think that by now the Brain should work at least for basic functions, no excuses. Maybe the engineers are just not making enough money on it for it be worth working on full time..... I would just go buy a Smooth stepper and BOB and get that mill running at this point.

[youngjim]

People in this forum convinced me the CNC Brain is great and almost ready.
So I asked a friend to get one for me. I liked the idea of suporting this great develoment, thinking I could use it for my new machine I was building.
This was not last week. This was not last month. This was more than half a year ago
At that time the software release was 1.0.6.3 and the next version was soon to be released. Well.... half a year later .... no new software
My machine is ready, but I can not use CNC Brain, because it is not ready.

I really feel I want to return it. I'm so dissapointed!
Can somebody convince me that it was a good thing to support CNC Brain?
Can somebody tell me when I can really use it?

If you can't return it, are you interested in selling it?

Jim

[granado]

If you don´t want problems I recommended you to buy an LPT port for you computer. Smooth stepper have also some bugs and no backslash ... also waiting for a year for the good driver.

Cncor,

That sucks dude. I almost went for the brain when it first came out but held back at the last minute and bought a C23 BOB. If it makes you feel any better I'm still trying to get my machine up and running after 3 months of building, either way it's a long process.

I do think that by now the Brain should work at least for basic functions, no excuses. Maybe the engineers are just not making enough money on it for it be worth working on full time..... I would just go buy a Smooth stepper and BOB and get that mill running at this point.