Carbide Motion 4 Any chance of new key commands?

[45rpm (John Clark)]

I was wondering if there was any plan to introduce macros or new key commands in carbide motion. I know I can jog and set increments, but I would love to be able to bind the rapid position locations, custom locations and the load file dialog.

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

Make that suggestion at support@carbide3d.com and we’ll see what folks think.

Until then there’s:

Keyboard Shortcut Cheat sheet for Carbide Create and Motion

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[Luke (Luke (Carbide 3D))]

This is something we are talking about, but at this stage nothing is defined/planned. I’d be keen to hear more on this.

[stutaylo (Stu)]

They should go for a basic / advanced option in CC, a lot of people leave CC because it doesn’t offer much functionality past homing and feed override

[Julien]

I would love to come back to CM (from UGS/CNCjs), what would bring me back is:

• the ability to have a few programmable buttons you can hook G-code macros to.
• visualization of the loaded G-code file (just copy/paste the rendering engine from CC, that will do)
• bonus point for live display during the cut of where the tool’s at
• the ability to jog as I please after I set zero.
• a cleaner MDI/G-code shell

[RickT (Rick)]

I’m with Julien on the macros and shell part of things, but the thing that particularly gives me grief is that I have an HDZ, and with CM I can’t get the full range of travel out of it (even with 4.17). In order to surface my whole wasteboard, I had to use CNCjs - CM wouldn’t let me get to the left-hand side.

With the SuckIt/wings installed, the range seems appropriate, but without it/them, not so much. Basically, with both this and the probe dimensions, I’d like to be able to provide my own measurements (or, in the case of range-of-travel, have them read from GRBL).

While I’m on a rant about CM, the MDI thing is powerfully irritating. I’d love to not have to click a “done” button when the “do something else” tab was right there staring me in the face. I’ve mostly adapted at this point, but I still get a little thrill of “oh, stop that” every time.

[Julien]

Or, open source it and let us improve the heck out of it
I know it does not match Carbide3d’s model, but I figured I would ask once every year anyway

[robrob (Rob Robinson)]

@Julien

I would love to come back to CM (from UGS/CNCjs), what would bring me back is:

Julien: it’s slightly OT, but why would you like to come back to CM from CNCjs?

Now that my Pi4b running cncjs is stable (knock on wood) i LOVE being able to send Gcode to the machine over wifi, and not have to worry about knocking over a dusty laptop, etc.

[Julien]

it’s just a matter of UI taste, I initially liked the simplicity of CM, and there is maybe a bit of nostalgia from these first few months of using the Shapeoko
But for now choosing CNCjs is a no brainer, indeed

[luc.onthego (Luc)]

How about listing where (line) a job is stopped at and the ability to restart from a given line.

A timer would also be nice.

I know that there are several offerings but wouldn’t it be better for C3D to offer users most of that required functionality for their product.