Carbide Motion 4.0.407

[ivanpedruzzi]

I just updated Motion and GRBL to the latest version and notice the following:

The keyboard shortcuts for Joging the Z are now assigned to comma “,” and dot “.” keys. Motion 3 maps them on the numeric pad (Page up/down) together with X and Y.

It would be very useful to have the shortcuts display in the UI. It would be super to allow the use to bind different keys.

After clicking on the Jog menu (top right corner), the Jog UI comes up, now if you try to click on different items on the top right menu nothing happens, but the buttons visually “click”. you have to click “done jogging” to be able to switch to Load/Run/MDI/Settings, This seems to behave like a modal dialog, if it is you should disable the top menu providing visual clues while in Jog.

The carbideupdater user guide reference a button “Toggle Shapeoko Homing” which does not exist.

Carbide Updater

[RichCournoyer (Richard Cournoyer)]

Note the email comment:

GRBL 1.1 and Carbide Motion 4

Here’s a link to the first builds of GRBL 1.1 and CM4. It’s not what we’d call “done” but it works well and we want to get it in the hands of some of our more brave users. DON’T UPGRADE IF YOU ARE USING YOUR MACHINE FOR PRODUCTION OR CANNOT RISK HAVING YOUR MACHINE DOWN WHILE WE WORK THROUGH THIS VERY EARLY RELEASE This update is good for all Carbide 3D machines. Shapeokos must have homing switches though. If you have any problems, please send them to beta@carbide3d.com so we can open a t…

[ivanpedruzzi]

I am not sure how to value your comment. I provided feedback for the beta.
Are suggesting to email the feedback rather than posting here?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

I think feedback will work better if everyone sends their ideas into the beta e-mail address — that way it doesn’t get obscured by chatter, and instead each suggestion can be examined on its merits and multiples can be aggregated and tabulated objectively.