I actually sent this into support several days ago, but I figured since you’re soliciting here, i’d repost it here just for the sake of keeping things together.
As I’ve been learning the CNC world thru the eyes of Carbide Create, I’ve run across several things that would make life easier. Many of these are fairly simple, yet would make for a easier to use, or would help to speed up the workflow.
- Assign tools by toolpath group. Assign the tool parameters to the toolpath group rather than each individual operation. I find myself sorting the toolpath operations by tool anyhow. This would make it easy to apply a change to all of the operations in a group all at once.
- Click drag reordering in the toolpath list. Right clicking and choosing move up/down from the context menu is slow and error prone.
- Hotkeys for reordering toolpath operations in the toolpath tree view. (page up/dn, or ctrl up/dn)
- Ability to cancel out a toolpath edit without saving the changes. (escape)
- In-place renaming of toolpath operations and groups. Slow double click could allow you to edit the name right in the list.
- Implement variables for cut depth fields. Instead of just having the links that copy the stock top and stock bottom to these fields, allow to enter a variable in these fields. This would allow the toolpath operations to automatically adjust when the stock dimensions are changed.
- As a further extension of #6, allow for simple expressions so you can do offsets with the variable. e.g. Max Depth: [Bottom] + .01
Thanks for your consideration