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Support for V70 Series Variable Frequency Drives was added on version 0.4.14 software. V70 VFD's are available at omc-stepperonline.com .

Please create a "bug report" and attach it to a post. When you do this, make sure that a gcode program that demonstrates the failure is currently loaded. This will give me a copy of your gcode program and your configuration. Also if possible, please note in your posting the line in the gcode program...

I noticed that the Mach3 post processor uses a different "formatComment" function. The Mach3 version uses the JavaScript String object, while mine did not. I just replaced my formatComment function with the one in the Mach3 post processor. I'm not an expert in JavaScript, but apparently the String o...

I made an attempt to fix the problem and pushed the new version to github. Our postprocessor repo on github can be accessed at: https://github.com/buildbotics/bbctrl-posts .

Please let me know whether you can get it and whether it worked.

Sorry, I don't really understand what you are saying. At what point does the system try to export the tool name?

Using video is really pretty easy. Just plug a MJPEG USB video camera into one of the USB ports and video will appear on up to four displays (including the local display) simultaneously. Note - several improvements were made to video performance in software version 0.4.13. BTW, the local monitor is ...

Try selecting a slower speed on the game controller. Speed is controlled using the four buttons ("X", "Y", "B") and "A") just above and to the right of the right joystick on the game pad.

Version 0.4.14 software has been released. It includes the following improvements: 1. The "Jogging" interface found under the "Jog" tab on the "Control" page now works correctly with touch panel screens. Previously, it did not recognized touch and hold gestures from a touch screen. This has been fix...

Nice work. My only suggestion would be to insert an M70 at the beginning of the program to save the machine state and M72 at the end of the program to restore the original state after the probing sequence is completed.

He Mick, I had Joe take a look at this and he found that the Controller cannot correctly handle files with a # or a ? in the file name. He has proposed to replace these characters with a - in the next release. He also found that if a file is removed outside the standard user interface, it will cause...